Anyone else search for foster family?
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:05:32 +0000
Am I unusual in being as interested in finding my foster parents and
siblings as I was in finding my natural mother, I see them more as my first
family even though I last saw them when I was eight or nine months old in
the 1950s. See http://search.harritt.net
I should the woman who shared looking a ...
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An Interesting Judgement
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:02:39 +0000
Down Lisburn Health and Social Services Trust and another (AP) (Respondents)
v. H (AP) and another (AP) (Appellants) (Northern Ireland)
HOUSE OF LORDS
SESSION 2005-06
[2006] UKHL 36
on appeal from [2005] NICA 47
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldjudgmt/jd060712/down-1.h
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Par ...
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Triad, does anyone else find the word inappropriate?
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:59:26 +0000
Hi All
I first aired this on the Norcap Forum, because they seem find it difficult
to get beyond the triad concept of adoption even to the point of using the
impossible triangle illusion as their corporate logo.
I've always disliked the use of the words triad and triangle in adoption,
which invariably ...
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Bastards in the UK?
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:48:52 +0000
See
http://www.bastards.org
Bastard Nation the US civil rights group for adoptees.
I've always been a proud bastard never afraid to tell anyone my status and
all by about what I should not suffer any prejudice as a result.
Don't we need something like Bastard Nation here in the UK even tough we've ...
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DNA tests, not so easy now?
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:42:04 +0000
A few weeks ago the new Human Tissue Act 2004 came in to force for the
first time which will outlawed the taking and testing of DNA samples without
the subject's consent, which according to the Human Genetics Commission
(HGC) would be a gross intrusion on their privacy.
It's another one those laws where ...
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A Father's Rights in Adoption of his Illegitimate Child
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:37:12 +0000
I've read some real nonsense on the subject of a father's rights in the
adoption of an illegitimate child in the 1950's and 60s, it is a subject of
some importance to me personally. I hope perhaps this throws a brighter
light on the subject than you may have seen elsewhere.
John Parker, M.P.'s account of hi ...
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Barnardos
Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:42:17 +0000
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I received another weaselly letter from Campbell Hooper, Barnardo's lawyers,
on Thursday
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They object to my use of the word veracity (as in lack of)
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Perhaps someone can help me out with another term to use when one social
worker within an organization tells you one th ...
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[UK] Juggling work and adoption/fostering
6 Nov 2006 05:17:17 -0800
I am on the Editorial team of a leading adoption and fostering
publication which is compiling a January issue on how carers juggle
work - whether part-time or full-time, at home or in the office -
with adopting or permanently fostering. The issue is still at planning
stage but is likely to include advice section ...
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The Family Justice Bill (uk)
Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:48:21 +0000
The government will introduce a family justice bill and is calling for ideas
on its content, Department for Constitutional Affairs minister Harriet
Harman said today (30 October 2006).
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/10/30/101982/Minister+asks+for+
ideas+on+family+justice+to+include+in+new.htm ...
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A Natural Father's Rights in Adoption of his Illegitimate Child
in the 1950s & 60s
Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:39:35 +0100
(This applies to England and Wales)
A Natural Father's Rights in Adoption of his Illegitimate Child in the 50s
and 60s
I've read some real nonsense on the subject of a father's rights in the
adoption of an illegitimate child in the 1950's and 60s, it is a subject of
some importance to me personally. I hop ...
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