Apology Alliance Australia

Tasmania’s Brave Foundation young mum support program goes Australia-wide – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Dr. Christine Cole on Twitter: “Brave NAC TVC https://t.co/OiGmOrtIY0 via @YouTube”
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In my thesis I discuss the stigma unwed mothers suffered. Interestingly though unwed mothers who had support (grandparents or if older, friends) suffered far less stigma and usually got to keep their babies. It was those that had no support that were preyed upon and suffered barbaric practices. Practices such as being heavily drugged with mind altering barbiturates and most heinously not being allowed to have any eye contact with their infant at the birth.  Mothers never gave away their babies – they never had them to begin.  Before the first Upper House Inquiry (NSW 1998-2000) when we mothers spoke out most people said “This would never happened in Australia “.  After the Inquiry when all the abusive and cruel treatment perpetrated on us was exposed all those involved in the theft of our babies changed the narrative. They began saying “well it was the social mores of the time” – and they were only doing what Australian society wanted.  It is no surprise to me that there still exists bigots and misogynists. But mothers are able to keep their children because they no longer use drugs, abuse, humiliation, brainwashing, tie mothers to beds or shove pillows into their faces so they don’t see their newborn.  So yes we still have stigma and single mothers need our support to be protected from it – because there are still many adults who can’t have their own children and will do all in their power to promote adoption and to continue the ugly stigma so they gain support for once again been able to forcibly remove babies.

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I support the Brave Foundation. The organisation works with and supports teenage mums to keep their babies

Dr Christine Cole

A Review of “Surrogacy and Limitations to Freedom of Contract: Toward Being More Fully Human” by Adeline A. Allen in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
— Read on www.cbc-network.org/2018/06/surrogacy-contracts-a-blight-on-the-human-dignity-of-surrogate-mothers-and-the-children-they-bear/

When a poor single young mother is told she must carry her baby for a married couple that is FORCED SURROGACY – there is always a differential in power whether in domestic international or surrogacy adoption – it always amazes me that the exploitation of the mother and baby and their lifetime trauma because of separation is so easily identified by academics when it comes to surrogacy. Yet they are blind to the parallels between being forced to carry your child for an infertile married couple or any other adult that desires your baby and surrogacy

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Stop the trafficking in children – BAN Adoption

The Hon. Justice Peter McClellan sounded as if he’d had his fill of the child savers http://www.liftingtheveil.org/special-reports/australian-inquiries-continue-review-of-abuses Deborra-lee Furness has been nominated as NSW’s Australian of the Year.  I am outraged! Furness an adoptive mother who has pushed her own agenda and used her power and media prestige to do so – in my…
— Read on apologyalliance.com/2014/11/12/deborra-lee-furness-child-saver-or-child-trafficker/

Read Adopted children should remain close to birth families, study suggests and the latest children services news & best practice on Children & Young People Now
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When parents get divorced it would be considered child abuse to terminate all connections with one side of the family – yet total and permanent separation of the child’s entire bio family is normalised  when a child is adopted – BAN Adoption

Vatican ‘sought deal’ with Irish State to bury church documents
— Read on www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/vatican-sought-deal-with-irish-state-to-bury-church-documents-1.3587955

Brief Overview of the History of the Apology Alliance Australia | Forced Adoptions History Project
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