7/7/2008 | Social workers are urged to be flexible on ethnic adoptions |
The Times, p15 |
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) is concerned that too many ethnic minority children are left in care homes or with temporary foster families while social workers try to find families to match their precise ethnic and religious background. It believes that the problem could be worsening as the ethnicity of children becomes more complex.
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6/7/2008 | Love is not enough for black children who wait in care |
Observer |
The majority of children awaiting adoption in Britain are black, Asian or mixed-race while most available adopters are white. The issue of 'transracial' adoption is hugely controversial with experts divided on what is best for the young, vulnerable children
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19/6/2008 | the children of the revolution |
Independent |
The battle for equality for gay and lesbian parents has come on leaps and bounds in the past 20 years, but the fight still goes on
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17/6/2008 | Too posh to adopt? |
Guardian |
A BBC producer and his wife recently claimed they had not been allowed to adopt a British child because they were too white and too middle-class. Are they, and others like them, really victims of a huge injustice?
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9/4/2008 | Fostering denied to 'smack couple' |
Daily Telegraph |
A couple have been prevented from fostering children after insisting on the right toismack their own daughter 'as a last resort'
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12/1/2008 | Shock for the married coupole who found out they were twins |
Daily Mail |
The harrowing story of twins who were separated at birth and married each other without realising they were brother and sister was revealed today.
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3/11/2007 | Billion-dollar baby trade: The darker side of adoption |
Daily Mail |
No one can begrudge Foreign Secretary David Milliband the joy of adopting a second child from America. But as a Mail investigation reveales, there's a much darker side to adopting.
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24/7/2007 | Who says lone men can’t adopt? |
The Time T2, p9-11 |
Last year 3,700 children were adopted from care. Many more, desperate for a family, were disappointed – but adoption agencies have begun to look farther afield. Unmarried heterosexual and gay couples can now adopt jointly, while another small but growing part of the adoptive parent network is single people. And while it’s true that most single adopters are female, there are some men, too.
David Holmes, chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), says: “It is a myth that single men can’t adopt. The number of single male adopters is small but growing. What children need most is security and stability, and in most cases this is more important than the gender of the carer.
“We know that single people can do just as well as couples, and we encourage adoption agencies to think about what single men and women have to offer. The national minimum standards for adoption state that people who are interested in becoming adoptive parents will be welcomed without prejudice.”
Three single men tell their story and the article gives details for the BAAF website, the BMP website and the Adoption Register website.
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23/7/2007 | Judge halts BBC programme featuring mother with IQ of 63 |
The Guardian, p13 |
Documentary 'invasion' of teenager's privacy
· Court halts screening after official solicitor intervenes
A high court judge has stopped the BBC airing a TV programme about an 18-year-old mother with an IQ of 63 whose daughter was taken away for adoption, ruling that it would be a "massive invasion" of the woman's privacy and "undermine her dignity as a human being".
Mr Justice Eady said "no rational person" could think, as the BBC had suggested, that it was in her best interests to be portrayed to the public in the light in which she was shown in the programme.
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22/7/2007 | Mother: 'Social workers' were inhuman' |
The Telegraph |
Their baby was healthy and happy, and they have not been accused of harming her, but a professional couple are fighting to get their daughter back after social workers took her away. The child was removed earlier this year at the age of just four months.
Council officials claimed that she was "likely to suffer significant emotional and physical harm" because of her mother's history of mental illness. A judge who approved the decision to remove the girl from her parents, both of whom are well educated, found that the father had been "confrontational" towards social workers sent to monitor his family. Campaigners fear that it is the latest in a series of cases in which social workers appear to have broken up families without good reason. ……
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering has denied that social services take children into care to be adopted unnecessarily.
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2/7/2007 | Will you be our mum and dad? |
The Sun, p24-2 |
These Brave, bright little lads need YOU. Dennis and Lamar are adorable, loving bundles of fun and energy, but neither had a lucky start in life. They are being cared for by wonderful foster parents, but The Sun is calling on our army of caring readers to adopt them and here we bring you their stories. The youngstes also feature on a new website - bemyparents.org.uk - created by BAAF to find families for the 4,000 uk children who need adoption each year.
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20/4/2007 | For 50 years, we lived two miles apart, then found we are sisters |
The Daily Express, p27 |
Two sisters have finally met after living two miles apart for more than 50 years. Margaret Fiddes was given away for adoption by her mother when she was 8 weeks. Three years later her sister was born but her parents decided to tell her about Margaret’s fate. Margaret was adopted by a family living near her natural parents in Leeds. It was only after Margaret decided to track down her natural family last year that the sister she never knew she had came to light.
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16/4/2007 | Madonna returns to scene of adoption row |
The Independent, p29 |
For the six months since his controversial adoption from an impoverished Malawi orphanage, one year old David Banda has lived a life of luxury in the London home of the material girl. Today, Madonna is expected to sweep back into the country for a reunion with the boy’s father, amid rumours she plans to adopt a second child.
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28/3/2007 | Same name, new recipe |
Society Guardian, p3 |
From next week Ofsted will increase its remit to regulate children's social care and adult learning, as well as schools. John Carvel and Lucy Ward on the challenges ahead at the new 'super-inspectorate'
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22/3/2007 | Labour wins gay rights vote in Lords |
The Independent, p5 |
The government has fought off an attempt by religious leaders, judges and Tory peers to block regulations laying down equal rights for gay rights for gay and lesbian couples over adoption and services such as bed and breakfast accommodation.
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19/3/2007 | Tory bid to derail law on gay adoptions |
The Daily Mail, p33 |
The Tories will today launch a last-minute attempt to block controversial laws governing homosexual adoption. Conservative backbenchers will demand a vote in the Commons amid an outcry that Labour has forced through the laws without proper parliamentary debate
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14/3/2007 | £700 for a child? Guatemalan 'baby factory' deals in misery and hope |
The Guardian, p25 |
Last year 4,943 Guatemalan children - more than 1% of the country's newborns - were adopted by foreigners, the vast majority of them Americans. Guatemala was the second-most important country of origin after China for children adopted abroad by US citizens. "There is a lot of money to be made and Guatemala has become a baby factory," says Byron Alvarado of the Guatemalan group Movement for Children. With fees of between $20,000-$30,000 (£10,000-£15,000) for every adoption, between $100m and $140m changed hands last year. "The adopting parents either don't know, or don't want to know, where the children they are adopting come from," he adds.
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13/3/2007 | Vote for the Sun wonder mum |
The Sun, p36-3 |
Adoptive mother Avril Head features in the shortlist of 5 mums nominated for their dedication to their children.
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12/3/2007 | Prelate fights gay adoption law |
The Times, p27 |
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, the most Rev Vincent Nichols, has called on his flock to join a campaign against new gay rights laws. Archbishop Nichols urged Catholics in the city to write to their MPs in protest at the Sexual Orientation Regulations, published last week by the Government.
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7/3/2007 | Tribunal finds Enterprise Rent-A-Car guilty of sex discrimination after sac |
Personnel Today |
A woman who was sacked for planning to adopt a child has won a landmark employment tribunal case.
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30/1/2007 | Blair says no to Catholic opt-out on gay couples |
Community Care |
There will be no opt-out for Catholic adoption agencies on regulations outlawing discrimination against gay people, prime minister Tony Blair said yesterday.
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27/1/2007 | Babies taken into care 'to meet targets for adoption' |
The Times |
Babies are being taken from their parents and placed in care before all other options are exhausted so that local authorities can meet targets on adoption, a group of MPs claim. The allegations were challenged yesterday by David Holmes, chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering.
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26/1/2007 | Dominic Lawson: Don't be fooled: the Catholic Church is not bluffing over g |
The Independent |
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor was not simply being self-serving when he goes on to describe the extraordinary quality of the work provided by Catholic Adoption Agencies: if you talk to the British Association for Adoption & Fostering - an organisation which is fully in favour of adoption by same-sex couples - it will tell you that the Catholic Agencies have an outstanding record in providing homes for the most difficult children to place.
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15/11/2006 | Now Madonna reveals she wants to adopt a baby girl from Malawi |
Daily Mail, p40 |
She has told of her hurt and shock at the backlash which greeted her planned adoption of an African baby boy. However it seems it was not enough to put Madonna off going through it all again.
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14/11/2006 | Could you raise a Down's child? |
The Sun, p36 |
Journalists interview three women about their experiences of Down’s syndrome and adoption.
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1/11/2006 | My birth mother was raped – and I’m the result. Can I make her feel better? |
The Times (Times 2), p6 |
I was adopted as a baby in 1945, and grew up happy in the love of my wonderful parents. I didn’t think I would ever know the identity of my birth parents, but I wondered about them, especially my mother.
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29/9/2006 | It was love at first sight when I met my baby girl |
Daily Mail, p38-3 |
Clare Grogan and her husband Steve waited anxiously in their care in a suburban street, about to have the most important meeting of their lives. After 12 years of struggling to have their own child, the couple were on the brink of meeting their adoptive daughter Lucia for the first time.
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22/9/2006 | This is what I want them to know |
The TES, p30 |
School staff need to be aware of an adopted child's choice when it comes to disclosure, David Newnham discovers. Features comments from Sarah Pepys at PACT.
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13/9/2006 | Letters: Adopt this suggestion |
The Daily Mail, p54 |
Adoptive parent, Sheila Bartley writes in response to proposals that schools are to teach the benefits of abortion, and questions that of this happens will adoption ever come into the equation? Sheila suggests that if more emphasis were put on the babies, who would otherwise be aborted or brought up by single mothers, then infertile woman would have a child, the child would have a secure home and birth mother would not be a drain on social services.
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22/8/2006 | Lifeclass: my mother won't meet the sister I didn't know I had |
Telegraph, p17 |
In her new weekly column, Lesley Garner tackles the anxieties and dilemmas that beset modern life. Here, she advises a woman on how to deal with her mother's refusal to meet the child she gave up for adoption.
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21/8/2006 | Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas |
Independent Extra, p7 |
Avril has just discovered that her recently deceased mother was adopted – and had a half brother she never knew. Avril longs to get in touch with him, but is worried she may cause distress. What should she do?
Virginia and four readers give their advice.
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3/8/2006 | We loved our adopted children: it wasn't enough |
The Times (T2), p6 |
Interview with John Houghton, adoptive father of three and author of a new book; A Forever Family: A Story of Adoption.
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20/7/2006 | 'Miracle baby allegedly smuggled into UK to be adopted, judge rules |
The Guardian, p12 |
A "miracle baby" allegedly smuggled to Britain by a child-trafficking ring must be taken from the foster mother who has cared for him for the last 15 months and handed over to strangers for adoption, a high court judge ruled yesterday.
The Guardian, page 12
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18/7/2006 | It's celebrity adopt a child |
The Sun |
A new show in which celebrities "adopt" a child sparked fury last night. Adoption UK said it had held talks with the BBC but have yet to agree. Features quotes from Jon Beyer of TV watchdog Mediawatch: "It's a sensitive area to make into entertainment. To bring in stars to jazz it up is wrong."
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17/7/2006 | Face to face contact with birth family 'can help the adopted' |
The Times, p26 |
For decades adopted children have been allowed to maintain contact with their birth parent by letter and by sending photographs on birthdays and at Christmas, amid fears that face-to-face meetings might prove to be too stressful. New research, however, suggests that meetings with birth relatives are in many cases positively helpful to adopted children, their adoptive parents and the birth parents. Beth Neil, of the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia, who conducted the research, said that, as it was usually down to the adoptive parent to maintain written contact between the child and his or her birth family, a number of problems arose.
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17/7/2006 | It takes a village to raise a child - four page special on adoption and fos |
The Voice, p37-4 |
Mentions the new Perlita Harris book on transracial adoption and BAAF's operation of the new adoption search and reunion website.
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13/6/2006 | I was a date rape baby |
Daily Mail, p22-2 |
Like many adopted children, Susan Murray yearned top find her real mother. But there was to be a bitter twist when she tracked her down and learned the horrifying truth about her conception.
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8/6/2006 | I've lost my Mum twice |
The Daily Mirror, p24-2 |
One woman's account of the search for her birth mother and siblings.
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5/6/2006 |
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The Guardian (Society)4 |
Letters in response to last week article written by Bernard Hare (Growing Pains, March 29), about a young woman whose children have been adopted.
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5/6/2006 | God knows |
The Guardian (G2), p 6-1 |
Nineteen babies appear mysteriously in Kenya. Are they the work of God, miracle births? Or have they been stolen? And how is the man suspected of being the ringleader allowed to carry on preaching in Britain? From a south London church to an illegal clinic in Nairobi, Steve Boggan goes on the trail
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1/6/2006 | Catholics opposed to gay couple adoptions |
The Scotsman, p7 |
Catholic adoption agencies yesterday asked MSPs for an opt-out to placing children with gay couples if new laws come in allowing same-sex couples to adopt.
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27/5/2006 | Maya's story |
The Saturday Times |
Since her mid-twenties, Times nutritionist Jane Clarke has known she couldn't have children. Here she tells how her long, emotionally painful quest to adopt as a single mother led her to India, and eventually to Maya. BAAF is mentioned at the end of the article.
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19/5/2006 | Babies are booming export in the land of 5m orphans |
Times, p44 |
The reversal of a boy's HIV status is the road to new life. He’s one of lucky ones…
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17/5/2006 | We adopted the family from hell |
Daily Mail, p24-2 |
When John Houghton, a distinguished writer, and his wife, marina, discovered they could not have children, they adopted two brothers and a sister who were looking for a ‘forever family’. The children – Kieran, then five, Paul, three, and Cate, 15 months – came from a loveless, violent background. Here John describes how their dream of a normal family has become brutally shattered but why he wouldn’t change a day.
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10/5/2006 | Is homosexuality a sin? Minister for Equality refuses to rule it out |
Independent, p1-2 |
The newly appointed government minister responsible for equality is facing controversy after she refused to say whether she believed homosexuality was a sin.
In an interview with Sky News, Ms Kelly repeatedly declined to say whether she agreed that same-sex couples should be permitted to adopt children. But she insisted she would promote the rights of all.
In 2002, she missed three votes on the Adoption and Children Bill, which permitted gay adoption, but did vote in May 2002 for an amendment to the Bill that would have allowed unmarried heterosexual couples to adopt, but exclude same-sex couples.
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10/5/2006 | I adopted my own brother and sister |
Daily Mail, p32-3 |
When their mother died suddenly, Stacey and their siblings were sent to care homes. But she was determined to fight for her family and now, at 20, she has made an incredible sacrifice
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8/5/2006 | Shortage of foster parents leaves children unsettled |
Independent, p6 |
A chronic shortage of foster parents means that some children in care are being forced to move up to three times a year, research has shown. A survey by the Fostering Network found that 13 per cent of looked-after children had moved to three different temporary families every year. The Fostering Network is calling on the Government to invest an extra £750m in the service to recruit, train and retain more carers.
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4/5/2006 | The lost children |
The Daily Mail, p50 |
When Kate Adie, who is adopted, started making a TV series about foundlings, she discovered the anguish of never knowing anything about your past. Found starts on BBC 1 next Monday at 9.15am.
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2/5/2006 | Ashes to bashes |
Daily Mirror, p15 |
Adoption reunion story about Ann Hallgarth, who decided to trace her biological family.
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2/5/2006 | Well, aisle be blowed |
Daily Mail, p7 |
Another adoption reunion story, this time with a woman who is reunited with her long-lost sister after they met by chance in a supermarket.
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19/4/2006 | Threadbare care |
Guardian, p3 |
In the final part of his series on looked after children, David Conn assesses ways the system is failing to provide proper parenting and asks minister Maria Eagle what she plans to do to tackle its problems.
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18/4/2006 | One last chance for a happier ending |
The Telegraph, p20 |
Journalist Jane Kelly was adopted at six weeks old. At 16, she traced her birth mother 'M'. It was the start of a fraught and irregular relationship. Now, on the eve of her 50th birthday, Jane has written this poignant and challenging letter to the 'mother who never was', seeking the answer to a question that continues to haunt her.
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18/4/2006 | I tracked down the mother who abandoned us, only to find she had dumped FI |
Daily Mail, p28 |
Nearly 40 years after being abandoned as a baby. Ali Every has finally found out who her real mother is. But her discovery of the woman who rejected her at birth doesn't have quite have the fairytale ending she was hoping for. Ali's story will be featured in the BBC1 documentary series Found, to be shown on five consecutive weekday mornings, beginning May 8th.
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7/4/2006 | Court rules mother must give children to lesbian ex-partner |
The Guardian, p7 |
Two young sisters must be taken away from their biological mother and handed over to her former lesbian partner, the court of appeal ordered yesterday. The mother, a teacher, had defied a court order by secretly taking the girls, aged seven and four, to Cornwall after the court of appeal granted her former partner a shared residence order last year, giving her parental responsibility for the girls along with their mother.
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6/4/2006 | I married my uncle |
The Sun, p 28- |
Case study interview with a woman who traced her birth mother, and went on to marry her Uncle.
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3/4/2006 | Our 13 year agony as slaves to evil 'mum' |
The Sun, p21 |
Two British girls who were adopted were kept as slaves for 13 years told of their ordeal often being rescued from a farm in America. It transpired that the girls were no legally adopted but had been cared for when their birth mother struggled to cope.
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3/4/2006 | Special report on Scotland's new bill |
Community Care |
An overhaul of adoption in Scotland is proposed in a new bill announced by education minister Peter Peacock this week. The bill is a “huge opportunity to benefit children,” said Barbara Hudson, director of Baaf Adoption and Fostering Scotland. Cathy Dewar, chief executive of the Scottish Adoption Association, called it a “milestone.”
Community Care
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3/4/2006 | McConnell rebuts top Catholic’s claim on adoptions |
The Herald |
Jack McConnell, the first minister has criticised claims by one of Scotland's most senior Roman Catholics that he heads a group of "politically correct zealots" supporting legislation which will allow homosexual couples to adopt.
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29/3/2006 | Executive bid to sllow same sex couples to adopt |
Glasgow Evening Times |
Same-sex and unmarried couples will be allowed to adopt under a Bill published today by the Scottish Executive.
The controversial legislation allows unmarried partners who are in an enduring family relationship to adopt as a couple.
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29/3/2006 | Growing pains |
The Guardian (Society section,, p3 |
Where did it all go wrong for Louise? Once a cheeky, freckle-faced girl, she is now a prostitute addicted to crack cocaine - and is still only 23, with two young children who were taken into care, and subsequently adopted. Her friend, author Bernard Hare, pieces together her harrowing life
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28/3/2006 | Adoption rights for unwed couples |
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Unmarried couples could be allowed to adopt children under the terms of a new Bill due to be published at the Scottish Parliament.
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27/3/2006 | My Mum: the mother's day issue |
The Independent on Sunday |
Interviews with parents and their children, including Larry Baker, a spokesperson for BAAF.
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13/3/2006 | A letter to ... my daughter's adoptive parents |
The Guardian (Saturday 11th Ma |
A weekly column, this week features a letter from an adoptive mother.
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8/3/2006 | Letters |
The Guardian (Society section) |
Ruth Valentine and Pam Hodgkins, Chief Executive of Norcap respond to last week's article by Esther Cameron on the subject of adoption reunions (A trace of regret, March 1).
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2/3/2006 | A woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to beating to death a 2-year-old girl she |
The Guardian |
A woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to beating to death a 2-year-old girl she had adopted from an orphanage in Siberia. Peggy Sue Hilt, 33, could get up to 40 years in prison at sentencing May 25.
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1/3/2006 | A trace of regret |
The Guardian (Society section, p1 |
The urge to search for birth parents is powerful in many people adopted as children. But as Esther Cameron recalls, it is a quest fraught with the danger of disappointment and sadness. Quotes Julia Feast.
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28/2/2006 | 'I haven’t ruled out adopting a child’ |
Daily Mirror, p22-2 |
Feature about GMTV newsreader Penny Smith which says she knows motherhood is no longer an option at 48, but she has considered adoption.
"When I go travelling and see children who need a good home I think I could give them so much. But then I'd be taking them to a different country and that might not be fair.
"Like most people, I haven't dismissed the idea but I haven't dismissed skydiving in the future either."
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10/2/2006 | Student on mission to adopt African orphans |
The Telegraph,, p3 |
Many students, it is fair to say, have an image problem. The popular view is that the social whirl of university life only just gives them enough time to watch morning television before getting ready for another party. But if one person can break the stereotype it is Catherine Franks. The 20-year-old law student has a greater reason than most to make success of her studies because when she graduates she will be able to bring home the two African children she has promised to adopt.
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3/2/2006 | Perils of buying a baby |
Daily Mail, p67 |
A review of the television programme ‘Baby Be Mine’.
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2/2/2006 | The baby who was our guilty secret |
Daily Mail, p36-3 |
After failed IVF, Mel and Nigel decided to adopt a child from Latin America. At the same time, incredibly, Mel conceived naturally…but then decided to hide her pregnancy so they could keep both children.
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31/1/2006 | Asylum scheme drives families underground |
Guardian, p4 |
At least 32 asylum families have gone underground to avoid having their children taken into care because they have failed to leave Britain, according to a report published today by the two leading refugee welfare charities. They say that out of 116 failed asylum-seeking families targeted in a 12-month pilot scheme designed to encourage them to go home, only one family has actually left the country.
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31/1/2006 | Meg's China girl takes a bow |
Daily Mail, p33 |
Meg Ryan has become the newest member of the most fashionable club in Hollywood - the adoptive mothers. Miss Ryan, showed off her Chinese daughter.
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23/1/2006 | Kilshaws' US dream shattered |
icCheshire |
Internet adoption couple Alan and Judith Kilshaw's bid to move to the States was in tatters this week following the collapse of a US trial into their tug-of-love baby case.
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23/1/2006 | New guidelines to help birth mothers find adopted children |
Wired Gov |
Mothers whose babies were adopted at birth, and other relatives of adopted people, are now able to receive help in seeking to contact these children. Adopted adults will also be able to receive help in tracking down their birth parents. New Welsh Assembly Government regulations and guidelines, announced by Health and Social Services Minister Dr Brian Gibbons, came into force on 30 December, 2005.
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23/1/2006 | Care home cruelty revealed |
The Yorkshire Post |
Vulnerable young people in care have been damaged by serious failures at a Yorkshire council which ignored warnings from social workers who have now turned whistleblowers to reveal a catalogue of disturbing shortcomings.
The staff have formally lodged a raft of allegations against Wakefield Council spanning a two-year period.
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23/1/2006 | Couple who dumped boy face €1m bill |
The Sunday Times |
The adoptive parents of Tristan Dowse, the four-year-old boy abandoned in an Indonesian orphanage three years ago, are to be hit with a maintenance order that could exceed €1m. The High Court case, which resumes next Thursday, is also expected to grant custody to the boy’s natural mother, Suranyi.
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5/1/2006 | Children traumatised by asylum raids, says watchdog |
The Times, p9 |
The Government has been severely criticised by its own watchdog for allowing children to be “snatched” from their homes by immigration officials.
Al Aynsley-Green, England’s first Children’s Commissioner, said that it was outrageous in a civilised society that the children of asylum-seekers were being rounded up for deportation with no warning and no attempt to explain to them what was happening.
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4/1/2006 | Adopted son jailed for killing parents |
The Times, p29 |
A killer who staged the murder of his adoptive parents to look like a car accident has been jailed in Australia for 28 years. David Weightman, 25, who was adopted at the age of 3 months, emigrated with his family from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, to Australia.
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3/1/2006 | Family won’t help me find my real mum |
The Sun, p33 |
A woman who is keen to trace her ‘real’ mother says her adoptive parents refuse to tell her about her birth parents. She asks Deidre how to go about tracing. Deidre gives BAAF’s website address.
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23/12/2005 | Adoption website launched |
NTL website |
Britain's first adoption reunion website is hoping to help blood relatives find each other.
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23/12/2005 | Compensation for adoption couple |
BBC online |
A Worcestershire couple have been told they are entitled to compensation against the county's adoption services
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23/12/2005 | Romania Rejects U.S. Adoptions Appeal |
Guardian |
Romania's prime minister on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to allow adoptions by foreigners of about 1,000 Romanian children.
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23/12/2005 | DESPAIR: Baby taken into care after birth |
Peterborough Today |
A mother is facing Christmas heartache after her baby was taken into care hours after he was born.
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19/12/2005 | Mothers and sons reunited as website finds lost families |
The Independent on Sunday |
The agony of almost two million parents and children, legally "lost" to each other and kept apart by bureaucracy, is about to end. Britain's first "adoption reunion" website - aimed at helping to reunite adopted children with their birth parents, and vice versa - will be launched next week. Features quotes from Julia Fest and reference to BAAF.
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19/12/2005 | A Russian baby. That’ll be €17,000 |
The Sunday Times |
Irish couples are paying up to €17,000 to international agencies to locate children for adoption in Russia. The country is now the most popular for Irish people seeking to adopt abroad, even though there is no adoption treaty between Ireland and Russia. The payment of such large fees has been criticised by the chairman of the International Adoption Agency, who says the Irish government should take measures to stop it.
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19/12/2005 |
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Yorkshire Today |
A dangerous rapist who subjected a young student to a terrifying ordeal when he kept her prisoner in his flat, has been jailed for the protection of the public. Sophie Drake, for John Hanrahan, said he was a very isolated young man having grown up in children's homes, foster care and residential schools without any guiding adult influence or secure family relationship.
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19/12/2005 |
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The Sun |
Cardboard box twins Holly and Joseph are to spend Christmas apart. Joseph, who is healthier than his sister, has been placed with foster parents. Holly will stay in the hospital where the new-born tots were found in a box in the car park.
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16/12/2005 | Reunited…In the pub |
Daily Mirror, p42-4 |
Positive feature about a man who traced his birth mother.
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1/12/2005 | Sure Start sets back the worst placed youngsters, study finds |
The Guardian, p5 |
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29/11/2005 | Salt poison case exclusive |
Daily Mirror, p6 |
Report by John Sweeney on the Christian Blewitt case. John Sweeney also reports on the Gay case tonight on Radio 4 File on Four at 8pm and BBC 2 Newsnight at 10.30pm
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22/11/2005 | Lack of cuddles in infancy may affect development of brain |
The Guardian |
Depriving young children of cuddles and attention subtly changes how their brains develop and in later life can leave them anxious and poor at forming relationships, according to a study published today. Love and affection from parents and carers are vital to developing brain pathways associated with handling stress and forming social bonds, the researchers found
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31/10/2005 | Take me home |
The Sun |
Summary of a new two-part documentary Wanted: New Mum And Dad which starts on Channel 4 on Thursday at 9.00pm.
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17/6/8 | Too posh to adopt? |
The Guardian |
ABB producer and his wife recently claimed they had not been allowed to adopt a British child because they were too white and too middle-class. Are they, and others like them, really victims of a huge injustice?
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17/6/8 | Too posh to adopt? |
Guardian |
A BBC producer and his wife recently claimed they had not been allowed to adopt a British child because they were too white and too middle-class. Are they, and others like them, really victims of a huge injustice?
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17/6/8 | Too posh to adopt? |
Guardian |
A BBC producer and his wife recently claimed they had not been allowed to adopt a British child because they were too white and too middle class. Are they, and others like them, really victims of a huge injustice?
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10/2/8 | I had no choice but to give my baby away |
Sunday telepgraph |
Catherine Murray was having the time of her life. Eighteen years old, intelligent and attractive, she was revelling in her new-found freedom at university after being brought up in a strict but loving middle-class Catholic home in an affluent London suburb
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12/1/8 | Court annuls marriage o couples who discovered they were twins |
The Times, p15 |
Twins who were separated at birth married each other without knowing that they were brother and sister, a peer has claimed.
The couple were adopted as babies by different families, and neither was told that they had a twin. They met, fell in love and got married before discovering that they were blood relatives
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12/1/8 | Court annuls marriage of couple who discovered they were twins |
The Times, p15 |
Twins who were separated at birth married each other without knowing that they were brother and sister, a peer has claimed.
The couple were adopted as babies by different families, and neither was told that they had a twin. They met, fell in love and got married before discovering that they were blood relatives
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12/1/8 | Court annuls marriage of couple who discovered they were twins |
The Times, p15 |
Twins who were separated at birth married each other without knowing that they were brother and sister, a peer has claimed.
The couple were adopted as babies by different families, and neither was told that they had a twin. They met, fell in love and got married before discovering that they were blood relatives
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12/1/8 | Twins parted at birth went on to meet, marry - then find the truth |
The Times, p15 |
Twins who were separated at birth married each other without knowing that they were brother and sister, a peer has claimed.
The couple were adopted as babies by different families, and neither was told that they had a twin. They met, fell in love and got married before discovering that they were blood relatives.
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3/11/7 | Billion-dollar baby trade: The darker side of adoption |
Daily Mail |
No one can begrudge Foreign Secretary David Milliband the joy of adopting a second child from America. But as a Mail investigation reveales, there's a much darker side to adopting.
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27/3/6 | My Mum: the mother's day issue |
The Independent on Sunday |
Interviews with parents and their children, including Larry Baker, a spokesperson for BAAF.
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20/3/6 | In two hours you will meet your daughter |
Daily Mirror, p36 |
Serialisation of a new book by Emily Buchanan about adopting a child from China.
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20/3/6 | The changing face of adoption |
The Voice, p4 |
Black and Asian parents need for BME children. Case study interview with quotes from Savita De Sousa.
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16/3/6 | Distant placements - Wide variation on the 20-mile rule |
Children Now |
There is significant regional variation in the proportion of looked-after children who are placed more than 20 miles from home, according to a study by the Department for Education and Skills. With comments from John Simmonds.
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24/8/5 | Tories want inquiry into 'child snatching' |
The Daily Mail, p18 |
Tory MPs last night demanded a Commons enquiry into the adoption system.The call came from three Conservatives on the powerful education committee in the wake of allegations that children are being unfairly removed from loving families.
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24/8/5 | Behind the lines |
The Guardian, p8 |
It is probably true that over the years, most social services departments will have faced a bout of hostile coverage from the media. The Daily Mail's recent coverage of a controversial adoption case is both vicious and misleading.
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24/8/5 | Adoption case parents attacked social workers |
The Guardian |
The biological parents in an adoption case that saw Essex council staff labelled "child snatchers" had attacked and made death threats against social services, it emerged today.
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11/8/5 | When love is not enough |
The Guardian |
Social workers are not child snatchers; they separate families only as a last resort, writes Felicity Collier
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19/7/5 | Tragedy of the babies bought for a pittance, sold for a fortune |
The Times |
THE youngest of the 27 babies rescued when police swooped on a baby-trafficking gang in the central Chinese province of Henan was only ten days old, the oldest 18 months. Other infants had already perished from lack of care.
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19/6/5 | The mental block |
The Observer |
One of the most consistent findings of studies of identical twins is that around half of a person's score in intelligence tests is caused by genes. However, this finding is called into question by studies of adopted children which, in some cases, reveal that adoptees have scored 10 points higher than their biological parents.
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16/6/5 | New legislation could face challenges under Human Rights Act |
Community Care |
New legislation which changes the criteria allowing courts to have children adopted without their parents consent could face multiple legal challenges, a barrister has warned today at a conference, writes Simeon Brody from Norwich.
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15/6/5 | Adoption charges |
The Times |
The cost of adopting a child from overseas could rise from £3,000 to £12,000, it has emerged. A late addition to the Children and Adoption Bill will mean that prospective adopters will be charged for the processing of inter-country adoption applications, a service that has traditionally been provided free of charge.
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10/6/5 | Controversial gay adoption plan |
The Courier |
MINISTERS ARE bracing themselves for a storm of protest over proposals to allow gay and unmarried couples to adopt.
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10/6/5 | Adoption law for same sex couples |
BBC News online |
Same sex couples will be able to adopt children, under new legislation being proposed by ministers.
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5/6/5 | Discovering birth parents creates two happy families |
The Observer |
For decades many adopted adults have looked for their birth family in secret or avoided searching, such is the fear of hurting those who brought them up. But new research has found that 80 per cent of adoptive parents are pleased when their children seek their roots.
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31/5/5 | Too few child protection medics |
BBC News Health edition |
There are too few doctors choosing to go into child protection work, warn the profession's leaders.
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23/5/5 | Million dollar baby |
The Guardian |
A dark tale of illegal adoption has won the top honour at Cannes.
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23/5/5 | Gay people shouldn't adopt says Moderator |
The Scotsman |
The Church of Scotland's new Moderator has courted controversy by speaking out against the adoption of children by homosexual couples.
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15/5/5 | Queen’s speech targets drivers and patients |
The Sunday Times |
POPULIST measures for parents, patients, motorists and Muslims will form the centrepiece of the government’s new legislative programme to be unveiled this week.
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13/5/5 | Why does it take 300 missing Black children before anyone notices? |
Black information link |
POLICE HAVE only just discovered that 300 Black children a year are going missing. Experts say that if it was any other community the authorities would have already taken action.
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20/4/5 | Fighter for children's rights |
The Guardian Society |
Interview with Cindy Kiro, New Zealand's commissioner for children, who has a clear message for her English counterpart: don't be afraid to rock the boat.
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20/4/5 | It's a life sentence with no reprieve |
The Daily Telegraph, p19 |
Cassandra Jardine meets parents whose children have been taken from them and asks if Britain's closed adoption system will ever change.
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19/4/5 | Minister's adoption ban 'was unlawful' |
The Daily Telegraph, p11 |
Lawyers for six couples seeking to adopt children from Cambodia accused Mrs Hodge of acting outside her powers when she suspended all adoptions indefinitely in June last year.
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30/3/5 | Act regulation fails to ensure support |
Children Now, p3 |
Regulations on adoption support services that will be introduced through the Adoption and Children Act 2002 could fail to ensure that adopted children receive essential help, campaigners have warned.
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23/3/5 | Voluntary agencies need more funding |
Children Now, p8 |
BAAF states that more ringfenced funding to support voluntary adoption agencies is needed, as details of inter-agency fees from April 2005 are published.
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9/3/5 | Family Ties |
Children Now, p22 |
Arranging post-adoption contact with a child's birth family can be a difficult job. But, as Mike George reports, statutory and voluntary agencies are working to help everyone involved.
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8/3/5 | Adoption: Public supports a web-based system |
Children Now, p15 |
More than two-thirds of the public support using the internet to find families for children waiting for adoption, a survey has revealed.
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23/2/5 | Documentary: Unwanted |
BBC digital radio channel 1Xtr |
No adoption is simple. And black children are losing out because most people want to adopt a white baby. The show will be broadcast at 5.30pm today and you can recieve it through your digital television. Alternatively, follow the link below to listen at any time.
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3/2/5 | Top 20 most influential people in social care |
Community Care, p10 |
Community Care have compiled a list of the 20 most influential people in the social care sector which includes Chief Executive of BAAF Felicity Collier.
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24/1/5 | Foster carers find time to study |
This is Local London |
Specifically aimed at foster carers, the e-learning course develops essential skills and has been developed in collaboration with the British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF).
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9/1/5 | Adoption - we can get it right |
The Sunday Express, p25 |
An article by BAAF Chief Executive Felicity Collier on the media coverage of David Miliband's adoption of a baby from the US.
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4/1/5 | A worm's eye view |
The Guardian |
The British government makes it hard for older couples to adopt children. So David Miliband's decision to adopt a baby from the US is shocking and unprofessional, says Andrew Brown.
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