Adopted person born to a criminalized and incarcerated mother at the Andrew Mercer Reformatory. Many adoptees across Canada remain unaware of their carceral birth histories.
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"The worst thing they did was make us grateful."
Good explanation of how gratitude was manufactured among the Orphan Train riders.🥚
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National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking
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A category for adoptees with a carceral birth, perhaps? Laureen Pittman and Deborah Jiang-Stein are both adoptees who have published books. Hopefully, mine will join them soon.🥚
Great website - thank you!👇
Access to prison records was previously limited under claims that the YCJA protected the records of girls under 18. My group and I challenged this barrier and were successful. Learn more below.🥚👇
🥚I corruption just never ends. They should be investigating prisons though in every country!!
🥚Notably an empty chair.
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Why do we comply? Habit? Trust? Because we've been taught not to question things?
Millions filled out the long-form census without a second thought. Most of us don't recognize when our rights may be eroded until someone raises a red flag.
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🥚A Saskatchewan group called AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) aired May 30, 1968.
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This post explains why our website was inaccessible for several months.
Adoptee Reading is now back online & ready to continue helping adopted people discover #adoption literature from the #adoptee perspective.
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We worked hard to break down this barrier.
Three years. Multiple IPC orders. Dismissed reconsideration requests.
The YCJA does not retroactively restrict access to records solely because an individual was under 18 while incarcerated at Mercer.
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Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females
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CALGARY, AB: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that lawyers funded by the Justice Centre have filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court challenging certain porti...
A Saskatchewan group called AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) describes its success at placing children in new homes. Aired May 30, 1968 on CBC-TV news with reporter Craig Oliver.
Hello again, adoptee readers!
This post explains why our website was inaccessible for several months.
Adoptee Reading is now back online & ready to continue helping adopted people discover #adoption literature from the #adoptee perspective.
adopteereading.com/2026/06/01/a...
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This report highlights efforts undertaken by federal departments between April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2025, to advance key commitments under the National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking. It also i...
Costa Rica confronts child welfare history that has long gone unexamined.
Investigations into int'l adoptions between 1970s and 90s when hundreds of children left for Scandinavia, often under circumstances now being questioned as fraudulent, coercive or legally void.
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Hello again, adoptee readers! Some of you may have noticed that Adoptee Reading has been inaccessible for many months. In late 2025, I realized that the site was being inundated with traffic origin…
Hello again, adoptee readers! Some of you may have noticed that Adoptee Reading has been inaccessible for many months. In late 2025, I realized that the site was being inundated with traffic origin…
