Mothers in ARMS
Forced Adoption - Mothers Find a Voice
$30.22
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2014
Summary
We know you have suffered enduring effects from these practices forced upon you by others. For the loss, the grief, the disempowerment, the stigmatisation and the guilt, we say sorry.
In March 2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard made the National Apology to those who had endured decades of suffering. Figures were not recorded but an estimated 150,000 to 250,000 babies had been adopted in Australia in the ‘best interests of the child’, most in the 1950s to 1970s. Many were taken from si…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743053126 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743053126 |
| Author: | Meg Hale |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 210mm |
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Meg Hale
Meg Hale is a former social worker and government investigator who lost a child to adoption in South Australia in 1968. Working as ARMS’s first social worker in the 1980s she helped South Australia pass the first laws in the English-speaking world giving mothers equal rights to apply for identifying information about their lost family members. Meg continues her work as an activist, advocating for the rights of mothers in adoption.
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