Submitted on Monday 9th April 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Demand for a public enquiry into coerced / forced adoption and a public apology
I was told that I would be an unfit to be a mother.
I was told that I would be inadequate as a mother.
I was told that keeping my baby would be selfish.
I was told that I couldn’t give my son what the adopters could give him.
It was stressed to me that my baby “needed a two-parent family.”
It was stressed to me that the needs of my baby came before my own needs and that I could not fulfill my baby’s needs.
I was told that adoption was the unselfish option because I was “thinking about what was best for my baby.”
That my son would be better off without me.
I was told to think only of the joy that “I would give to a couple who could not have children of their own.”
I was told that if I changed your mind, I would be disappointing a couple who deserved a baby.
I was told that I should not keep my baby as I would be letting down the adopters down.
I was told that I couldn’t stop the adoption when my baby was about 6 weeks old.
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