This page provides links to articles, documents and other information available for download, offering a range of views, information and insights on historic forced and coerced adoption in the UK and around the globe, including information about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and their impact on later life health and wellbeing.
Information is drawn from a range of sources, some academic, some from mainstream media and other sources.
We will continue to add to this page as documents and data become available.
UK
Rose Bell: Mother & Baby Homes research
Mother and Baby Homes – list
Mother and Baby Homes in the UK – list
Natural Parents Network – Facebook page
(this page is still ‘live’ but no longer actively in use)
The Artist Book Project
The Artist’s Book: Mothers’ Experiences of Adoption
This project explores the healing potential of artists’ books for mothers dealing with the profound emotional impact of having their children removed and placed for adoption.
International Groups
These sites offer a great deal of information and insight.
Articles and Resources
Karen Constantine’s book, Taken: experiences of forced
adoption now available from Pram Publications.
Effects of Adoption: What Professionals didn’t tell us.
Letter from Dr. Michael Lambert
22 March 2024 – Article – Scotland apologised in 2023 for
historic forced adoptions – but this happened throughout the UK
VANISH – February 2024 Bulletin (Australia)
VANISH VOICE – August 2023 Bulletin (Australia)
11 July, 2023 – Article – Forced Adoptions:
why government won’t apologise
VANISH – July 2023 Bulletin (Australia)
18 January, 2018 – Adoption a “runaway train often breaching rights of birth parents”
Adverse Relinquishment and
Adoption Experiences Assessment (USA)
Relinquishment Trauma: The Forgotten Trauma (USA)
Youtube – Exposure – Please Don’t Take my Child
(Forced Adoption Exposed) (17 July, 2014)
Adoption and Feminism – Towards Framing a Feminist Response to Contemporary Developments in Adoption (Australia) (July 2012)
Adoption_Jurisprudence_Systems_Theory_&_Practice (Australia)
Bastard Nation – Adoptee Rights organisation, New York
Broadening notions of missing persons
Listening to the experiences of birth mothers whose children have been taken into care or adopted
Coercive adoption practices in Canada
Childless? Adoption in Australia since the 1950s
Force, Fraud, and Coercion
Bridging from Knowledge of Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy
Forced adoption support services scoping study (Australia 2014)
Full adoption in England and Wales and France: a comparative history of law and practice (1926-2015)
Global commercial surrogacy and international adoption: parallels and differences
