Adult Adoptees - Dedicated Section Under Talk Topics

I would be very interested in this. Please do it!

Thanks Humsta, I can't wait.
I'm sure there will be lots of us.

It would be helpful if you provided a link for anyone coming back to this thread.

I think a separate area is a good idea. The current adoption board is welcoming but for adoptees who may well have had a lifetime of repressing certain comments or questions for fear of hurting their family it's ironic if they have to do the same on a board.

Am from USA but my adoption is pretty similar to most uk ones. Left birth mother at birth and stayed in hospital for a few months then went to adopted parents. Y

Just a suggestion but why not body and soul rather than relationships?
Can I also suggest an obvious title.
Stately homes is fine for that subject as unfortunately so many are affected and pointed towards the thread.
I think adoptees may be a smaller amount and need an obvious title.

Thanks Lago.

I'm not sure the apology would mean much to adopted people, unless they hah been unfortunate to go to a bad home. I'm sure the bms would appreciate it though

Do we have a new thread that anyone can link to yet?
Or are we still discussing titles.

@NewLife: I remember reading in the 1990s that there were 250,000 children adopted in England and Wales in the postwar period - these were stranger adoptions, not step parent/family member adoptions. Not sure how accurate that is. But there were a lot! And that does not include other parts of the British Isles and all the US/Can adoptees on this site.

On the apology, not sure that it would make much difference to me, but I realise others would think differently. One thing that interests me is citizenship. Both my birth parents were Irish citizens which made me Irish by descent when I was born in UK. Apparently I lost that citizenship when I was adopted - although I cannot anything in Irish law that says that is the case. It is just that the person I was ceased to exist. Quite extraordinary really, you can't remove citizenship from murderers or terrorists, but you can from an adoptee. Wonder if any others on this board have any experience of this.

Irish passport might be very useful if the Brexiters win!

That is a huge disappointment, Becca.

However, it might be that we can start a new thread in Relationships or somewhere along the lines of the stately homes thread.

I too would like to know?

Bump. for the owls.

Did we as a nation ever get an apology from the government, like they did in Australia?
I have often wondered this.
I did some basic research during my degree and had some stats of how many babies were adopted during the 1960's and can't find them, despite lots of searches. i'm gutted as the 16,000 that is quoted for just 1969 was way below what I thought i'd seen.

MNHQ there are thousands if not millions of us out here, some of us would love to be able to chat and share experiences on here.
We may only be a minority of members but I'm sure it would grow as people google all the time and find Mnet threads.

I would be very interested in an adult adoptee board.

I am happy to bump this thread. I was born - and adopted - many years before 1975.

Bump, because I found this when bumped

I think it would be very good, for those born both pre and post 1975 when laws changed.
Sometimes you want to post things and they wouldn't seem applicable to anybody else or just a small minority and the thread would consist of a few posts only.

Even if it isn't used very often it would be a place to go to to talk with people who understand.
I would be very interested too as much has changed in adoption in recent years and many issues that would be applicable to those who are 50 wouldn't be the same as those who are children now.

Please MNHQ let us have a separate thread.

mnhq, it would be really great to have this section, is it possible? thank you very much!