Demanding Accountability
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Mothers affected by the forced adoption policies of 1960s and 70s
are calling for an investigation into the medical profession and what they say were illegal and heinous practices.
Individual states apologised ahead of Julia Gillard’s national apology in 2013 but mothers are angry that since then there’s been silence.
They say a Royal Commission or a civil class action is needed.
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The stigma surrounding single mothers from 1958 to the mid 1970s and states’ forced adoption policies robbed up to 250,000 women of their babies.
Hospitals pushed adoption consent forms on women, which most do not even remember signing.
Mothers are not appendages. Just because children cannot live with their parents does not mean adoption – the only time an adoption is valid if an earthquake occurs and some children’s parents die – they are true orphans – and the present perception and belief a child wont love the permanent carer or foster parent – unless they are adopted – placing adoption equals love. Adoption has nothing to do with caring for children –
