tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post9119119195740536038..comments2023-07-12T06:26:17.735-02:00Comments on Motherhood Deleted: "Independence" DayRobinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07580241881953821182noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-81657771725885077012008-07-05T12:18:00.000-02:002008-07-05T12:18:00.000-02:00Robin,As a mother who had her son taken mid 60's w...Robin,<BR/><BR/>As a mother who had her son taken mid 60's while her son's father was getting ready for the Vietnam war, I too find this appalling telling soldiers to get over it..bull crap. <BR/><BR/>I NEVER will get over it..losing my baby. It is with me everyday even in my reunion with my grown adult son. <BR/><BR/>I lost two people in my life..my son in 66 and his father my love in 67. My son's father died almost a year to the day my son was taken from me..<BR/><BR/>gale<BR/>reunited after 26 horrendous years of separation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-85396452372541522882008-07-05T08:44:00.000-02:002008-07-05T08:44:00.000-02:00That prescedent was already set in New South Wales...That prescedent was already set in New South Wales, New Zealand and Australia, Kazi, and it brought the rate of infant adoption down to single-digit numbers, per year. The apology was not just to the aboriginal people but also to all the BSE mothers, white or aboriginal, of that part of the world. Great strides were made in that investigation in NSW and the writings by Dr. Rickarby on the effects on both mother and adoptee are very spot-on. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, it is going to take a lot more effort in the US. Here, it is, literally, a big business...a flesh trade and the US ultra-capitalistic bureauocracy supports that trade. Our heel are dug in and we hope to see the same reduction in adoptions, once the real story gets out, that has been seen in OZ.<BR/><BR/>We also have Native American people who had thousands of their children taken for adoption and they only make up a small percentage of the holocaust of baby-taking that took place in the BSE. We need justice for ALL the mothers who lost children in this heinous way.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580241881953821182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-10289728198007970102008-07-05T05:20:00.000-02:002008-07-05T05:20:00.000-02:00Hi Robin, I'm not sure this comment really speaks ...Hi Robin, I'm not sure this comment really speaks to your post, however, I have been pondering previous posts where you have mentioned that you would like to see an apology for the BSE?<BR/>Just last month in Canada, our federal government issued a very public apology to the First Nations people over the government sanctioned atrocity of removing children from their families and placing them in residential schools that were frought with horrendous abuses, all in the name of a "better life" as the thinking was if we make these kids "white" we'll improve their lives. Hey, why be Native when you can be white, which is the best race there is? Um, hell no.<BR/>Anyway, many parents who went looking for their stolen children were told they were dead.<BR/>It is a dark smear on Canada's history, but at the very least our government has recognized the travesty of the time and apologized even though the current government had nothing to do with what happened. The point of course is that they were apologizing on behalf of Canada.<BR/>I guess my point is that they recognized the ills and made a sincere apology, it never should have happened. When I saw this, I immediatley thought about BSE mothers. Would the government do the same for all the mothers who were treated so cruelly?<BR/>I don't know, but I did think that it sent a precedent.<BR/>What do you think?<BR/><BR/>Kazi (adoptive mother)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-390909065202529662008-07-04T13:10:00.000-02:002008-07-04T13:10:00.000-02:00Hi Robin,I've been reading and admiring your writi...Hi Robin,<BR/><BR/>I've been reading and admiring your writing for some time now. But to show the link between adoption propaganda and war propaganda--well, that's just true genius. All this propaganda is so very well-crafted, isn't it? Thanks to you and other brave mothers who have lost at least one child to adoption, many people are beginning to see through such malarkey.Thinking Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05791974902688463569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-28260626829827771282008-07-04T11:18:00.000-02:002008-07-04T11:18:00.000-02:00Maybe, if I had waited until my life were "better ...Maybe, if I had waited until my life were "better organized," I'd be having my children right now. The trouble with that is that I am almost 63 years old. If I had waited until we had enough money or the "right" kind of car/home/career/etc., then none of my children would ever have been born. Nature does, indeed, fight the will of the eugenicist.<BR/><BR/>And all who read, please send safe and comforting thoughts to our men and women in the middle east, today.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580241881953821182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-83394868748381144342008-07-04T11:02:00.000-02:002008-07-04T11:02:00.000-02:00Robin said: "The freedom to have a family is fast ...Robin said: "The freedom to have a family is fast becoming a privilege granted only to the "more deserving"....<BR/><BR/>Boy, that could not be more true. I can't count the number of times I've seen articles where social workers are taking children away for no reason other than lack of money. Even scarier are the comments attached to these articles...hooray, take the baby from the poor mother who is down on her luck, she doesn't deserve a family! <BR/><BR/>Everyone thinks if you don't have a McMansion, Hummer, and 15 credit cards (all maxed-out, of course), then you are a loser whose children should be taken away. <BR/><BR/>Is it better to plan for children when our lives are better organized? Of course, but mother nature has other ideas, she finds a way to make babies despite our best attempts to thwart her. This means we need to help women in tough circumstances who are trying to raise their children, not turn them into grist for the adoption mill.maybehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07067284504038707207noreply@blogger.com