I wasn't planning to spend an hour watching a film but I got hooked on the emotional stories of adoptees in Illinois who obtained their original birth certificates when the law changed in 2011 (albeit with a veto option).
Adoptee Jean Strauss’s film
"A Simple Piece of Paper"
vimeo.com/88410746
🥚
What happens when a state allows adopted citizens to have their original birth certificates? In 2011, Illinois became the largest state in the Union to reverse sealed records laws, providing 350,000 a...
NEW REPORT: Sick and disabled infants deemed unadoptable were denied medical care and left to die in a UK maternity home where unwed mothers were forced to surrender their infants for adoption. 🥚
Heartbreaking story from the Baby Scoop Era
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#adoption is not and has never been about "the best interests of the child." It is and has always been about redistributing the privileges of parenthood in accordance with racist and classist notions of fitness and desert.
A new report condemning an unmarried mothers' home is welcomed by survivors and relatives.www.bbc.com
