Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 4, 2019 16:10:35 GMT 12
CLOSED ADOPTIONS A DELIBERATE ASSIMILATION POLICY
One of the submitters to the Royal Commission on Historical Abuse in State and Religious Care has highlighted the damage done around policies of closed adoptions.
Dr Alison Green shared her own situation and linked it to similar policies in Canada.
She says it was a deliberate strategy to take Māori babies out of their home communities and place them with Pākeha families, without allowing them to know who their original families were......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjMwNTE/Paakiwaha/MONDAY:-Closed-adoptions-a-deliberate-assimlation-policy
One of the submitters to the Royal Commission on Historical Abuse in State and Religious Care has highlighted the damage done around policies of closed adoptions.
Dr Alison Green shared her own situation and linked it to similar policies in Canada.
She says it was a deliberate strategy to take Māori babies out of their home communities and place them with Pākeha families, without allowing them to know who their original families were......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjMwNTE/Paakiwaha/MONDAY:-Closed-adoptions-a-deliberate-assimlation-policy