February 20, 1980
… a seventeen year old with no-one to talk to and no-one who would listen to me. … parents are 62 and 61 years old … small town Prairie mentality and Fundamentalist beliefs. … internment in a wage home...
View ArticleAdoption separation: A tragic end for one natural family
I have a friend, Rowena, who is a natural mother who lost her son to adoption. Rowena was only 17 when she gave birth to her son Blaise, and in Grace Hospital in Calgary, they only allowed her to see...
View ArticleThe residential schools tragedy … there are just no words for it.
(Note: This post is not directly adoption related, but pertains to another issue close to my heart, the mistreatment of First Nations peoples in Canada) The first “national event” of the “Truth and...
View ArticleMore Old Rich White Men
In Canada, our situation is so very sad. We are in the middle of an election, and if you look at the party leaders, the selection is pitiful. No women, no persons of colour, no-one under the age of...
View ArticleJustice for Children taken in the Sixties Scoop
Some great news that was published in the paper today is that a lawsuit has been filed by Sixties Scoop survivors, against the government that took them from their parents: Lawsuit filed for ‘Sixties...
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