| The adoption laws have been changed in the UK but | | | | been studies done in US which show that adopted |
| in N Ireland a birth mother is not allowed to make | | | | people are 17 times more likely to go to borstal. Much |
| contact with their child unless the adoptee has | | | | more likely to become drug addicts, alcoholics and are |
| already tried to contact them. The majority of | | | | more prone to obesity. These problems are caused |
| adoptees are not aware of this fact and are | | | | by the secrecy surrounding adoption. |
| therefore living in the hope that they will hear from | | | | Many birth mothers refuse to disclose the identity of |
| their natural parents when they are 18 years old. | | | | the father therefore leaving their unfortunate |
| Apparently in the last few months it has become the | | | | offspring to go through their life without ever |
| policy of social services to assist these birth mothers | | | | knowing who they are. What happened to human |
| to find their children. However social workers can use | | | | rights regarding these people? Does society care in |
| their own discretion as to how much information they | | | | the slightest? |
| reveal to an adoptee. An adoptee is not entitled to | | | | I searched for 40 years to find my mother and this |
| access the records of the adoption which are held by | | | | prolonged anguish and effort would have been totally |
| the courts where the adoption took place. | | | | unnecessary if so many brick walls had not been set |
| Many adoptees have been living a lie for a large part | | | | up. Read my story which is being released at the end |
| of their lives. There are people who find out in their | | | | of January 2009. To order the book now... |
| fifties that they have been adopted. There have | | | | |