I was born in September 1953 and adopted in May 1956. When I was 6 my
adoptive mother became ill with breast cancer, she died about month after my
7th birthday. From the age of six and half years I was brought up almost
entirely by my adoptive father. He never remarried, as far I know he was not
gay, I know that I am not. There was not and never has been any law in
Britain to have prevented him enlisting the help of another man in my
upbringing, I would not have felt disadvantaged in anyway if he had.


From the very first day that the institution of legal adoption begun in
England and Wales on the 1st of January 1927 it has always been possible for
a single of either gender to adopt a child. Under the 1927 Act there were
restriction on a single male adopting a female child. From the time that
male homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967 there has been no law prevent
a single gay man from adopting a child and at the same time living with a
partner of the same sex. Lesbianism has never been illegal in the UK and
since the 1st January 1927 there has been no law to prevent a single woman
applying to adopt a child and living with that child and another woman.


Prior to the coming in to force of the relevant section of the Adoption and
Children Act 2002 in England and Wales on the 30th of December 2005 no two
people could adopt a child jointly unless they were a married couple. The
effect of the adoption laws prior to 30 Dec 05 was that although two people
in non a married partnership might both be filling a parental role in a
child's life only the person who was granted the Adoption Order was a parent
of the child in the eyes of the law, be it a gay couple or man and a woman
living together.  If the single adoptive parent died the partner had no
legal rights to parent the child and the child could be forcible removed
from a person it regarded as its other parent. I can not think of anything
LESS "in the interest of the child".


It would be wrong in any modern civilised nation to pass a law that
permitted a non married mixed gender couple to adopt together and at the
same time have a law that forbade a same sex couple from doing so whilst
allowing one member of that partnership to adopt alone regardless of sexual
orientation.


In a world where many children are not able to remain with their natural
parents for variety of reasons and people willing to give to give children
over a year of age a family are at a rarity, the changes made to the law in
England and Wales by the 2002 Act are very much in the best interest of
'looked after' children in need of a family.


So sad then is it not, to see such bigotry and ignorance rife on an internet
group on MSN and run by an organisation that claims such high moral values
for its self as Trackers International does?  Add to that the evident racial
intolerance and religious bigotry on the Forgotten Mothers group.


Make up your own mind


http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/general.msnw


As you will see from its website, that group is the discussion group of
Trackers International


http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/


I see that Trackers International claims that it still undertakes what it
refers to as "Mediation", "Our mediators work with you and your loved one to
ensure a successful reunion". That is what those with a descent command of
the English language refer to as Intermediary Services.


Trackers International also claims to undertake what it calls "Advocacy"
which I suspect amounts to what the Adoption and Children Act 2002 refers to
as Counselling. See http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/ti_serv.htm


The Adoption and Children Act 2002 and Regulations that came in to force on
30 Dec 2005 strictly forbid any organisation which is not a registered
Adoption Support Agency or Adoption Society or Local Authority Social
Service from providing counselling or intermediary services in connection
with adoption.


Inevitably anyone undertaking such work will come into contact with people
whose sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin and religious beliefs are
amongst those so heavily maligned on the Forgotten Mothers MSN group run by
Trackers International
http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/messages.msnw


The Commission for Social Care Inspection (the CSCI) is the organisation in
England charged with policing facilities for post adoption services. See


http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/_files/EE53BDB0934623D6B7B841100456C3D4.
pdf


The CSCI seems to be failing altogether in that part of its role. However if
enough of us express our concerns directly to the CSCI and back that up with
letters to our own MPs asking them to question the relevant Ministers at the
Department for Health and DfES (which overseas adoption service) as to why
Trackers International is allowed to continue to operate? Then perhaps,
something might be done.


Robin Harritt

 
http://harritt.eu

*

Robin Harritt wrote:
> 
> I was born in September 1953 and adopted in May 1956. When I was 6 my
> adoptive mother became ill with breast cancer, she died about month after my
> 7th birthday. From the age of six and half years I was brought up almost
> entirely by my adoptive father. He never remarried, as far I know he was not
> gay, I know that I am not. There was not and never has been any law in
> Britain to have prevented him enlisting the help of another man in my
> upbringing, I would not have felt disadvantaged in anyway if he had.
> 
> 
> From the very first day that the institution of legal adoption begun in
> England and Wales on the 1st of January 1927 it has always been possible for
> a single of either gender to adopt a child. Under the 1927 Act there were
> restriction on a single male adopting a female child. From the time that
> male homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967 there has been no law prevent
> a single gay man from adopting a child and at the same time living with a
> partner of the same sex. Lesbianism has never been illegal in the UK and
> since the 1st January 1927 there has been no law to prevent a single woman
> applying to adopt a child and living with that child and another woman.
> 
> 
> Prior to the coming in to force of the relevant section of the Adoption and
> Children Act 2002 in England and Wales on the 30th of December 2005 no two
> people could adopt a child jointly unless they were a married couple. The
> effect of the adoption laws prior to 30 Dec 05 was that although two people
> in non a married partnership might both be filling a parental role in a
> child's life only the person who was granted the Adoption Order was a parent
> of the child in the eyes of the law, be it a gay couple or man and a woman
> living together.  If the single adoptive parent died the partner had no
> legal rights to parent the child and the child could be forcible removed
> from a person it regarded as its other parent. I can not think of anything
> LESS "in the interest of the child".
> 
> 
> It would be wrong in any modern civilised nation to pass a law that
> permitted a non married mixed gender couple to adopt together and at the
> same time have a law that forbade a same sex couple from doing so whilst
> allowing one member of that partnership to adopt alone regardless of sexual
> orientation.
> 
> 
> In a world where many children are not able to remain with their natural
> parents for variety of reasons and people willing to give to give children
> over a year of age a family are at a rarity, the changes made to the law in
> England and Wales by the 2002 Act are very much in the best interest of
> 'looked after' children in need of a family.
> 
> 
> So sad then is it not, to see such bigotry and ignorance rife on an internet
> group on MSN and run by an organisation that claims such high moral values
> for its self as Trackers International does?  Add to that the evident racial
> intolerance and religious bigotry on the Forgotten Mothers group.
> 
> 
> Make up your own mind
> 
> 
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/general.msnw
> 
> 
> As you will see from its website, that group is the discussion group of
> Trackers International
> 
> 
> http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/
> 
> 
> I see that Trackers International claims that it still undertakes what it
> refers to as "Mediation", "Our mediators work with you and your loved one to
> ensure a successful reunion". That is what those with a descent command of
> the English language refer to as Intermediary Services.
> 
> 
> Trackers International also claims to undertake what it calls "Advocacy"
> which I suspect amounts to what the Adoption and Children Act 2002 refers to
> as Counselling. See http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/ti_serv.htm
> 
> 
> The Adoption and Children Act 2002 and Regulations that came in to force on
> 30 Dec 2005 strictly forbid any organisation which is not a registered
> Adoption Support Agency or Adoption Society or Local Authority Social
> Service from providing counselling or intermediary services in connection
> with adoption.
> 
> 
> Inevitably anyone undertaking such work will come into contact with people
> whose sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin and religious beliefs are
> amongst those so heavily maligned on the Forgotten Mothers MSN group run by
> Trackers International
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/messages.msnw
> 
> 
> The Commission for Social Care Inspection (the CSCI) is the organisation in
> England charged with policing facilities for post adoption services. See
> 
> 
> http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/_files/EE53BDB0934623D6B7B841100456C3D4.
> pdf
> 
> 
> The CSCI seems to be failing altogether in that part of its role. However if
> enough of us express our concerns directly to the CSCI and back that up with
> letters to our own MPs asking them to question the relevant Ministers at the
> Department for Health and DfES (which overseas adoption service) as to why
> Trackers International is allowed to continue to operate? Then perhaps,
> something might be done.
> 
> 
> Robin Harritt
> 
>  
> http://harritt.eu
> 
> *
> 
> 

I am repeating this here in case it get removed from MSN groups for any reason



There are several laws in the UK which together say, you can not  act in the 
way that PB and here "friends" - and I use inverted comas advisedly - have 
been acting recently.  I would like to make a promise to those who are being 
hurt by this and a warning to those who are perpetrating it, that it will be 
put a stop to by those whose business it is to police the various laws 
concerned. I may have to divert some of personal 'fighting fund' to that end.

I believe, that everyone who is posting on this forum has at one time or other 
made it quite clear to the rest of us, who they are. We can see the trail that 
they have left as they go through life, that they are real, genuine, human beings.

I am seeing vicious attacks being made by what is claimed to be large 
'voluntary sector' organisation and that claims to have searched for and 
reunited 12000 individuals.

I have a personal legal fighting fund, as many of you know, I have spent many 
thousand of pounds in my efforts to acquire my own records and find my own 
family. Luckily that is a fraction of what I have set aside. I don't like 
rip-offs and I don't like threats and viciousness. When I look at an MSN forum 
and see my personal life discussed there along with that of others and serious 
veiled implied threats being made then the time has come for me to put a stop 
to what is happening AND I FULLY INTEND  DO JUST THAT.

Anyone who wishes to discuss this with me can do so via e-mail from their own 
ISP directly, not via an IP proxy, not using a disposable hotmail account, any 
hotmail or MSN account that is not already in my address book, is blocked. Any 
offensive or incoherent e-mail will be ignored, those containing offensive 
language are disposed of automatically. My e-mail address is rh@harritt.net 
all outgoing mail from that address is digitally signed.

The Invitation is there, let us see some evidence that you are real people 
with the guts to stand up and be recognised, not just 'sockpuppets' hiding 
behind silly nicknames and bogus MSN/Hotmail addresses.

MEMBERS HERE PLEASE NOTE; IF I PUT MY TIME EFFORT AND MONEY IN TO THIS THEN NO 
FURTHER DISCUSSION OR COMMENTS THAT MIGHT JEOPARDISE ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING CAN 
BE MADE ON ANY OF THE OPEN GROUPS. DO THAT AND YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!

I am setting up a non MSM private discussion group for this at 
http://groups.mac.com/aor  you have to get a .Mac identity just like on MSN 
but you can only get the one. Just click on the orange disk. Mac groups are 
always invitation only and can not made open to the internet, but anyone can 
apply to me for an invitation at the e-mail address above under the conditions 
outlined above

No further discussion on open forums at all please, I am not going to waste 
money if our case is going to be jeopardised.

Robin Harritt

http://harritt.net

*

Robin Harritt wrote:
> 
> I was born in September 1953 and adopted in May 1956. When I was 6 my
> adoptive mother became ill with breast cancer, she died about month after my
> 7th birthday. From the age of six and half years I was brought up almost
> entirely by my adoptive father. He never remarried, as far I know he was not
> gay, I know that I am not. There was not and never has been any law in
> Britain to have prevented him enlisting the help of another man in my
> upbringing, I would not have felt disadvantaged in anyway if he had.
> 
> 
> From the very first day that the institution of legal adoption begun in
> England and Wales on the 1st of January 1927 it has always been possible for
> a single of either gender to adopt a child. Under the 1927 Act there were
> restriction on a single male adopting a female child. From the time that
> male homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967 there has been no law prevent
> a single gay man from adopting a child and at the same time living with a
> partner of the same sex. Lesbianism has never been illegal in the UK and
> since the 1st January 1927 there has been no law to prevent a single woman
> applying to adopt a child and living with that child and another woman.
> 
> 
> Prior to the coming in to force of the relevant section of the Adoption and
> Children Act 2002 in England and Wales on the 30th of December 2005 no two
> people could adopt a child jointly unless they were a married couple. The
> effect of the adoption laws prior to 30 Dec 05 was that although two people
> in non a married partnership might both be filling a parental role in a
> child's life only the person who was granted the Adoption Order was a parent
> of the child in the eyes of the law, be it a gay couple or man and a woman
> living together.  If the single adoptive parent died the partner had no
> legal rights to parent the child and the child could be forcible removed
> from a person it regarded as its other parent. I can not think of anything
> LESS "in the interest of the child".
> 
> 
> It would be wrong in any modern civilised nation to pass a law that
> permitted a non married mixed gender couple to adopt together and at the
> same time have a law that forbade a same sex couple from doing so whilst
> allowing one member of that partnership to adopt alone regardless of sexual
> orientation.
> 
> 
> In a world where many children are not able to remain with their natural
> parents for variety of reasons and people willing to give to give children
> over a year of age a family are at a rarity, the changes made to the law in
> England and Wales by the 2002 Act are very much in the best interest of
> 'looked after' children in need of a family.
> 
> 
> So sad then is it not, to see such bigotry and ignorance rife on an internet
> group on MSN and run by an organisation that claims such high moral values
> for its self as Trackers International does?  Add to that the evident racial
> intolerance and religious bigotry on the Forgotten Mothers group.
> 
> 
> Make up your own mind
> 
> 
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/general.msnw
> 
> 
> As you will see from its website, that group is the discussion group of
> Trackers International
> 
> 
> http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/
> 
> 
> I see that Trackers International claims that it still undertakes what it
> refers to as "Mediation", "Our mediators work with you and your loved one to
> ensure a successful reunion". That is what those with a descent command of
> the English language refer to as Intermediary Services.
> 
> 
> Trackers International also claims to undertake what it calls "Advocacy"
> which I suspect amounts to what the Adoption and Children Act 2002 refers to
> as Counselling. See http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/ti_serv.htm
> 
> 
> The Adoption and Children Act 2002 and Regulations that came in to force on
> 30 Dec 2005 strictly forbid any organisation which is not a registered
> Adoption Support Agency or Adoption Society or Local Authority Social
> Service from providing counselling or intermediary services in connection
> with adoption.
> 
> 
> Inevitably anyone undertaking such work will come into contact with people
> whose sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin and religious beliefs are
> amongst those so heavily maligned on the Forgotten Mothers MSN group run by
> Trackers International
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/messages.msnw
> 
> 
> The Commission for Social Care Inspection (the CSCI) is the organisation in
> England charged with policing facilities for post adoption services. See
> 
> 
> http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/_files/EE53BDB0934623D6B7B841100456C3D4.
> pdf
> 
> 
> The CSCI seems to be failing altogether in that part of its role. However if
> enough of us express our concerns directly to the CSCI and back that up with
> letters to our own MPs asking them to question the relevant Ministers at the
> Department for Health and DfES (which overseas adoption service) as to why
> Trackers International is allowed to continue to operate? Then perhaps,
> something might be done.
> 
> 
> Robin Harritt
> 
>  
> http://harritt.eu
> 
> *
> 
> 

I am repeating this here in case it get removed from MSN groups for any reason



There are several laws in the UK which together say, you can not  act in the 
way that PB and here "friends" - and I use inverted comas advisedly - have 
been acting recently.  I would like to make a promise to those who are being 
hurt by this and a warning to those who are perpetrating it, that it will be 
put a stop to by those whose business it is to police the various laws 
concerned. I may have to divert some of personal 'fighting fund' to that end.

I believe, that everyone who is posting on this forum has at one time or other 
made it quite clear to the rest of us, who they are. We can see the trail that 
they have left as they go through life, that they are real, genuine, human beings.

I am seeing vicious attacks being made by what is claimed to be large 
'voluntary sector' organisation and that claims to have searched for and 
reunited 12000 individuals.

I have a personal legal fighting fund, as many of you know, I have spent many 
thousand of pounds in my efforts to acquire my own records and find my own 
family. Luckily that is a fraction of what I have set aside. I don't like 
rip-offs and I don't like threats and viciousness. When I look at an MSN forum 
and see my personal life discussed there along with that of others and serious 
veiled implied threats being made then the time has come for me to put a stop 
to what is happening AND I FULLY INTEND  DO JUST THAT.

Anyone who wishes to discuss this with me can do so via e-mail from their own 
ISP directly, not via an IP proxy, not using a disposable hotmail account, any 
hotmail or MSN account that is not already in my address book, is blocked. Any 
offensive or incoherent e-mail will be ignored, those containing offensive 
language are disposed of automatically. My e-mail address is rh@harritt.net 
all outgoing mail from that address is digitally signed.

The Invitation is there, let us see some evidence that you are real people 
with the guts to stand up and be recognised, not just 'sockpuppets' hiding 
behind silly nicknames and bogus MSN/Hotmail addresses.

MEMBERS HERE PLEASE NOTE; IF I PUT MY TIME EFFORT AND MONEY IN TO THIS THEN NO 
FURTHER DISCUSSION OR COMMENTS THAT MIGHT JEOPARDISE ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING CAN 
BE MADE ON ANY OF THE OPEN GROUPS. DO THAT AND YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!

I am setting up a non MSM private discussion group for this at 
http://groups.mac.com/aor  you have to get a .Mac identity just like on MSN 
but you can only get the one. Just click on the orange disk. Mac groups are 
always invitation only and can not made open to the internet, but anyone can 
apply to me for an invitation at the e-mail address above under the conditions 
outlined above

No further discussion on open forums at all please, I am not going to waste 
money if our case is going to be jeopardised.

Robin Harritt

http://harritt.net

*

Robin Harritt wrote:
> 
> I was born in September 1953 and adopted in May 1956. When I was 6 my
> adoptive mother became ill with breast cancer, she died about month after my
> 7th birthday. From the age of six and half years I was brought up almost
> entirely by my adoptive father. He never remarried, as far I know he was not
> gay, I know that I am not. There was not and never has been any law in
> Britain to have prevented him enlisting the help of another man in my
> upbringing, I would not have felt disadvantaged in anyway if he had.
> 
> 
> From the very first day that the institution of legal adoption begun in
> England and Wales on the 1st of January 1927 it has always been possible for
> a single of either gender to adopt a child. Under the 1927 Act there were
> restriction on a single male adopting a female child. From the time that
> male homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967 there has been no law prevent
> a single gay man from adopting a child and at the same time living with a
> partner of the same sex. Lesbianism has never been illegal in the UK and
> since the 1st January 1927 there has been no law to prevent a single woman
> applying to adopt a child and living with that child and another woman.
> 
> 
> Prior to the coming in to force of the relevant section of the Adoption and
> Children Act 2002 in England and Wales on the 30th of December 2005 no two
> people could adopt a child jointly unless they were a married couple. The
> effect of the adoption laws prior to 30 Dec 05 was that although two people
> in non a married partnership might both be filling a parental role in a
> child's life only the person who was granted the Adoption Order was a parent
> of the child in the eyes of the law, be it a gay couple or man and a woman
> living together.  If the single adoptive parent died the partner had no
> legal rights to parent the child and the child could be forcible removed
> from a person it regarded as its other parent. I can not think of anything
> LESS "in the interest of the child".
> 
> 
> It would be wrong in any modern civilised nation to pass a law that
> permitted a non married mixed gender couple to adopt together and at the
> same time have a law that forbade a same sex couple from doing so whilst
> allowing one member of that partnership to adopt alone regardless of sexual
> orientation.
> 
> 
> In a world where many children are not able to remain with their natural
> parents for variety of reasons and people willing to give to give children
> over a year of age a family are at a rarity, the changes made to the law in
> England and Wales by the 2002 Act are very much in the best interest of
> 'looked after' children in need of a family.
> 
> 
> So sad then is it not, to see such bigotry and ignorance rife on an internet
> group on MSN and run by an organisation that claims such high moral values
> for its self as Trackers International does?  Add to that the evident racial
> intolerance and religious bigotry on the Forgotten Mothers group.
> 
> 
> Make up your own mind
> 
> 
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/general.msnw
> 
> 
> As you will see from its website, that group is the discussion group of
> Trackers International
> 
> 
> http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/
> 
> 
> I see that Trackers International claims that it still undertakes what it
> refers to as "Mediation", "Our mediators work with you and your loved one to
> ensure a successful reunion". That is what those with a descent command of
> the English language refer to as Intermediary Services.
> 
> 
> Trackers International also claims to undertake what it calls "Advocacy"
> which I suspect amounts to what the Adoption and Children Act 2002 refers to
> as Counselling. See http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/ti_serv.htm
> 
> 
> The Adoption and Children Act 2002 and Regulations that came in to force on
> 30 Dec 2005 strictly forbid any organisation which is not a registered
> Adoption Support Agency or Adoption Society or Local Authority Social
> Service from providing counselling or intermediary services in connection
> with adoption.
> 
> 
> Inevitably anyone undertaking such work will come into contact with people
> whose sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin and religious beliefs are
> amongst those so heavily maligned on the Forgotten Mothers MSN group run by
> Trackers International
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/messages.msnw
> 
> 
> The Commission for Social Care Inspection (the CSCI) is the organisation in
> England charged with policing facilities for post adoption services. See
> 
> 
> http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/_files/EE53BDB0934623D6B7B841100456C3D4.
> pdf
> 
> 
> The CSCI seems to be failing altogether in that part of its role. However if
> enough of us express our concerns directly to the CSCI and back that up with
> letters to our own MPs asking them to question the relevant Ministers at the
> Department for Health and DfES (which overseas adoption service) as to why
> Trackers International is allowed to continue to operate? Then perhaps,
> something might be done.
> 
> 
> Robin Harritt
> 
>  
> http://harritt.eu
> 
> *
> 
> 

I am repeating this here in case it get removed from MSN groups for any reason



There are several laws in the UK which together say, you can not  act in the 
way that PB and here "friends" - and I use inverted comas advisedly - have 
been acting recently.  I would like to make a promise to those who are being 
hurt by this and a warning to those who are perpetrating it, that it will be 
put a stop to by those whose business it is to police the various laws 
concerned. I may have to divert some of personal 'fighting fund' to that end.

I believe, that everyone who is posting on this forum has at one time or other 
made it quite clear to the rest of us, who they are. We can see the trail that 
they have left as they go through life, that they are real, genuine, human beings.

I am seeing vicious attacks being made by what is claimed to be large 
'voluntary sector' organisation and that claims to have searched for and 
reunited 12000 individuals.

I have a personal legal fighting fund, as many of you know, I have spent many 
thousand of pounds in my efforts to acquire my own records and find my own 
family. Luckily that is a fraction of what I have set aside. I don't like 
rip-offs and I don't like threats and viciousness. When I look at an MSN forum 
and see my personal life discussed there along with that of others and serious 
veiled implied threats being made then the time has come for me to put a stop 
to what is happening AND I FULLY INTEND  DO JUST THAT.

Anyone who wishes to discuss this with me can do so via e-mail from their own 
ISP directly, not via an IP proxy, not using a disposable hotmail account, any 
hotmail or MSN account that is not already in my address book, is blocked. Any 
offensive or incoherent e-mail will be ignored, those containing offensive 
language are disposed of automatically. My e-mail address is rh@harritt.net 
all outgoing mail from that address is digitally signed.

The Invitation is there, let us see some evidence that you are real people 
with the guts to stand up and be recognised, not just 'sockpuppets' hiding 
behind silly nicknames and bogus MSN/Hotmail addresses.

MEMBERS HERE PLEASE NOTE; IF I PUT MY TIME EFFORT AND MONEY IN TO THIS THEN NO 
FURTHER DISCUSSION OR COMMENTS THAT MIGHT JEOPARDISE ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING CAN 
BE MADE ON ANY OF THE OPEN GROUPS. DO THAT AND YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!

I am setting up a non MSM private discussion group for this at 
http://groups.mac.com/aor  you have to get a .Mac identity just like on MSN 
but you can only get the one. Just click on the orange disk. Mac groups are 
always invitation only and can not made open to the internet, but anyone can 
apply to me for an invitation at the e-mail address above under the conditions 
outlined above

No further discussion on open forums at all please, I am not going to waste 
money if our case is going to be jeopardised.

Robin Harritt

http://harritt.net

*

Robin Harritt wrote:
> 
> I was born in September 1953 and adopted in May 1956. When I was 6 my
> adoptive mother became ill with breast cancer, she died about month after my
> 7th birthday. From the age of six and half years I was brought up almost
> entirely by my adoptive father. He never remarried, as far I know he was not
> gay, I know that I am not. There was not and never has been any law in
> Britain to have prevented him enlisting the help of another man in my
> upbringing, I would not have felt disadvantaged in anyway if he had.
> 
> 
> From the very first day that the institution of legal adoption begun in
> England and Wales on the 1st of January 1927 it has always been possible for
> a single of either gender to adopt a child. Under the 1927 Act there were
> restriction on a single male adopting a female child. From the time that
> male homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967 there has been no law prevent
> a single gay man from adopting a child and at the same time living with a
> partner of the same sex. Lesbianism has never been illegal in the UK and
> since the 1st January 1927 there has been no law to prevent a single woman
> applying to adopt a child and living with that child and another woman.
> 
> 
> Prior to the coming in to force of the relevant section of the Adoption and
> Children Act 2002 in England and Wales on the 30th of December 2005 no two
> people could adopt a child jointly unless they were a married couple. The
> effect of the adoption laws prior to 30 Dec 05 was that although two people
> in non a married partnership might both be filling a parental role in a
> child's life only the person who was granted the Adoption Order was a parent
> of the child in the eyes of the law, be it a gay couple or man and a woman
> living together.  If the single adoptive parent died the partner had no
> legal rights to parent the child and the child could be forcible removed
> from a person it regarded as its other parent. I can not think of anything
> LESS "in the interest of the child".
> 
> 
> It would be wrong in any modern civilised nation to pass a law that
> permitted a non married mixed gender couple to adopt together and at the
> same time have a law that forbade a same sex couple from doing so whilst
> allowing one member of that partnership to adopt alone regardless of sexual
> orientation.
> 
> 
> In a world where many children are not able to remain with their natural
> parents for variety of reasons and people willing to give to give children
> over a year of age a family are at a rarity, the changes made to the law in
> England and Wales by the 2002 Act are very much in the best interest of
> 'looked after' children in need of a family.
> 
> 
> So sad then is it not, to see such bigotry and ignorance rife on an internet
> group on MSN and run by an organisation that claims such high moral values
> for its self as Trackers International does?  Add to that the evident racial
> intolerance and religious bigotry on the Forgotten Mothers group.
> 
> 
> Make up your own mind
> 
> 
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/general.msnw
> 
> 
> As you will see from its website, that group is the discussion group of
> Trackers International
> 
> 
> http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/
> 
> 
> I see that Trackers International claims that it still undertakes what it
> refers to as "Mediation", "Our mediators work with you and your loved one to
> ensure a successful reunion". That is what those with a descent command of
> the English language refer to as Intermediary Services.
> 
> 
> Trackers International also claims to undertake what it calls "Advocacy"
> which I suspect amounts to what the Adoption and Children Act 2002 refers to
> as Counselling. See http://www.uktrackers.co.uk/ti_serv.htm
> 
> 
> The Adoption and Children Act 2002 and Regulations that came in to force on
> 30 Dec 2005 strictly forbid any organisation which is not a registered
> Adoption Support Agency or Adoption Society or Local Authority Social
> Service from providing counselling or intermediary services in connection
> with adoption.
> 
> 
> Inevitably anyone undertaking such work will come into contact with people
> whose sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin and religious beliefs are
> amongst those so heavily maligned on the Forgotten Mothers MSN group run by
> Trackers International
> http://groups.msn.com/ForgottenMothers-/messages.msnw
> 
> 
> The Commission for Social Care Inspection (the CSCI) is the organisation in
> England charged with policing facilities for post adoption services. See
> 
> 
> http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/_files/EE53BDB0934623D6B7B841100456C3D4.
> pdf
> 
> 
> The CSCI seems to be failing altogether in that part of its role. However if
> enough of us express our concerns directly to the CSCI and back that up with
> letters to our own MPs asking them to question the relevant Ministers at the
> Department for Health and DfES (which overseas adoption service) as to why
> Trackers International is allowed to continue to operate? Then perhaps,
> something might be done.
> 
> 
> Robin Harritt
> 
>  
> http://harritt.eu
> 
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> 
> 

I am repeating this here in case it get removed from MSN groups for any reason



There are several laws in the UK which together say, you can not  act in the 
way that PB and here "friends" - and I use inverted comas advisedly - have 
been acting recently.  I would like to make a promise to those who are being 
hurt by this and a warning to those who are perpetrating it, that it will be 
put a stop to by those whose business it is to police the various laws 
concerned. I may have to divert some of personal 'fighting fund' to that end.

I believe, that everyone who is posting on this forum has at one time or other 
made it quite clear to the rest of us, who they are. We can see the trail that 
they have left as they go through life, that they are real, genuine, human beings.

I am seeing vicious attacks being made by what is claimed to be large 
'voluntary sector' organisation and that claims to have searched for and 
reunited 12000 individuals.

I have a personal legal fighting fund, as many of you know, I have spent many 
thousand of pounds in my efforts to acquire my own records and find my own 
family. Luckily that is a fraction of what I have set aside. I don't like 
rip-offs and I don't like threats and viciousness. When I look at an MSN forum 
and see my personal life discussed there along with that of others and serious 
veiled implied threats being made then the time has come for me to put a stop 
to what is happening AND I FULLY INTEND  DO JUST THAT.

Anyone who wishes to discuss this with me can do so via e-mail from their own 
ISP directly, not via an IP proxy, not using a disposable hotmail account, any 
hotmail or MSN account that is not already in my address book, is blocked. Any 
offensive or incoherent e-mail will be ignored, those containing offensive 
language are disposed of automatically. My e-mail address is rh@harritt.net 
all outgoing mail from that address is digitally signed.

The Invitation is there, let us see some evidence that you are real people 
with the guts to stand up and be recognised, not just 'sockpuppets' hiding 
behind silly nicknames and bogus MSN/Hotmail addresses.

MEMBERS HERE PLEASE NOTE; IF I PUT MY TIME EFFORT AND MONEY IN TO THIS THEN NO 
FURTHER DISCUSSION OR COMMENTS THAT MIGHT JEOPARDISE ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING CAN 
BE MADE ON ANY OF THE OPEN GROUPS. DO THAT AND YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!

I am setting up a non MSM private discussion group for this at 
http://groups.mac.com/aor  you have to get a .Mac identity just like on MSN 
but you can only get the one. Just click on the orange disk. Mac groups are 
always invitation only and can not made open to the internet, but anyone can 
apply to me for an invitation at the e-mail address above under the conditions 
outlined above

No further discussion on open forums at all please, I am not going to waste 
money if our case is going to be jeopardised.

Robin Harritt

http://harritt.net

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