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
got our OBCs there's still a lot to fight for?
 
How about Bastard Britain?
 
When I used to organise a certain website I was told I mustn't put a link to
a certain website because it had a link to Bastard Nation and "bastard is
such a nasty word".  What a load wimps we are ay. Isn't that what we need
instead of  the often bitter twisted folk who seem to deem themselves to be
our spokes persons
 
 
Robin
 
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I have been looking for bastards nation uk and only came up with your post! 
Is there any political organisation for adoptees rights in the U.K.? I am 
the child of an adoptee and am becoming more politicised about the legacy of 
adoption and the way it can get passed on, so that ever afterwards, 
sometimes for generations people are suffering because of an unhealed wound. 
The politics of adoption are starting to really annoy me and make me 
question completely the kind of modern state that encourages it without 
question. I am sure adoption serves to mentain so called 'family values' and 
makes 'the family' more important than the bond between mother and child, 
under whatever circumstances these are created but is that a good thing for 
anyone involved except the needs of the State? Babies are so unable to argue 
their cause that their needs are effectively silenced when their needs are 
the only ones that really count. In the past stigma led to adoptions, now we 
have forced adoptions to mentain 'Family' and prevent the so-called 
breakdown in society....

url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/117332.aspx

On 13/6/08 10:53, in article 49fca07423fd4ee197200579d463497c@newspe.com,
"lauren lumby"  wrote:

> I have been looking for bastards nation uk and only came up with your post!
> Is there any political organisation for adoptees rights in the U.K.? I am
> the child of an adoptee and am becoming more politicised about the legacy of
> adoption and the way it can get passed on, so that ever afterwards,
> sometimes for generations people are suffering because of an unhealed wound.
> The politics of adoption are starting to really annoy me and make me
> question completely the kind of modern state that encourages it without
> question. I am sure adoption serves to mentain so called 'family values' and
> makes 'the family' more important than the bond between mother and child,
> under whatever circumstances these are created but is that a good thing for
> anyone involved except the needs of the State? Babies are so unable to argue
> their cause that their needs are effectively silenced when their needs are
> the only ones that really count. In the past stigma led to adoptions, now we
> have forced adoptions to mentain 'Family' and prevent the so-called
> breakdown in society....
> 
> url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/117332.aspx



There's nothing specifically "adoptee rights" and nothing specifically "UK
based"

There are kids who get used as ashtrays and drop kicked around the house by
their parents or their crack whore mothers' boyfriends. We all know the
scenario and no one would dispute that those kids need looking after by
someone other that their natural parents. But adoption is the cost cutter
solution, far less expensive for the state than good foster care by
dedicated carers. Adoption would be fine if it were not for all the secrecy
and lies and pretence that anyone can own a child with an adoption order
still used like a bill of (forced) sale between one family and the next. I'd
hoped that wasn't the way it was going to be after the Adoption and Children
Act 2002, but it doesn't look as though that is always the way it works out.

Robin Harritt
http://harritt.eu