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Adoption

October 2025

  • a women and child holding a flag and booklet

    ‘Inherently cruel’: Canadian parents say citizenship bill erodes rights of children adopted abroad

  • Layne Beachley

    Walk with ...
    Layne Beachley: ‘My peers tagged me as having the compassion of a tiger shark’

September 2025

  • Davina McCall and Ann Forbes-Burford: Ann has shoulder-length blond hair and wears a white blouse with black spots; Davina is a little taller than her with darker hair and wears a white blouse. They are standing together outdoors in a garden with a hedge and blue sky behind them.

    Ministers urged to digitise adoption records to help reunite families

    As ITV’s Long Lost Family airs, campaigners say retaining archives is crucial for those separated by forced adoptions at unmarried mothers’ homes

August 2025

  • Corin Hirsch

    Words that changed everything
    When my birth mother rejected me, another woman’s words helped me heal

    Corin Hirsch
    I struggled to cope with her refusal to meet me, until a straight-talking judge gave me a new perspective, says writer Corin Hirsch
  • Gordon Brown says the state should apologise for its role in the adoptions involving 200,000 women.

    Gordon Brown calls for apologies over forced adoptions in England and Wales

    Campaigners say time running out to issue formal apology to women who had babies taken away in 1950s, 60s and 70s
  • Merrilees Ritchie

    ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity

    Some people can get all the way through adulthood without knowing they are adopted. Should the government tell them?

June 2025

  • Open Bible and crucifix on altar inside church

    Church accountant ‘discriminated’ against by diocese in Bristol for being non-Catholic

    Disciplinary hearing shows tribunal judge said Janet Parker appeared to have been subjected to ‘witch-hunt’ after argument over adoption leave
  • Shadow of a child on a playground swing

    Sweden urged to ban international adoption after damning inquiry findings

    Inquiry head accuses Swedish state of human rights violations, citing child-trafficking cases across four decades
  • Headshot of Chinese twin sisters Esther (on right) and Shuangjie

    ‘Mom, am I the missing twin?’: the story of two babies separated by the Chinese state – and their emotional reunion

    US couple Marsha and Al adopted a baby girl from China because they thought she had been abandoned. Years later they read about a girl whose sister had been illegally snatched by the authorities. Was everything they’d been told about their daughter a lie?

May 2025

  • A woman wearing a short-sleeved top and glasses standing at the bottom of the stairs looking away from the camera

    ‘It broke my heart’: the adopters forced to return their child to care after struggling alone

  • A curly haired toddler sitting on floor near window and playing with toy cars and train

    More adoptions likely to fail in England amid funding cuts, warn charities

  • Little girl holding hands of her adoptive parents, rear view.

    Adoption fund cut has left families in limbo

  • Black and white picture of large two-storey country house with pram bottom right and woman looking out of window

    Plaque and memorial garden to mark scandal of Britain’s forced adoptions

April 2025

  • Charmian Clift

    I went searching for the grandmother I never met. Under a tree where she once sat with Leonard Cohen, I broke

    Gina Chick
    When adoption laws changed in Australia, we discovered her name: Charmian Clift. I felt instant recognition. This explained everything

March 2025

  • May McGhee

    Other lives
    May McGhee obituary

    Other lives: Social worker who identified a need for infertility counselling, leading to the creation of a service designed for that purpose

February 2025

  • Silhouette of a person sitting with head in hand by window

    ‘Time running out’ for UK to apologise over forced adoptions

    Campaigners demand government issue formal apology to women forced to give up their babies in 1950s-70s
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    Meet the young Musketeers, our unelected overlords employed by ‘Doge’

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Elon Musk’s crew, most of whom can’t rent a car without paying the ‘under 25’ fee, have access to our sensitive personal data
  • Molly Bodinetz in 2023

    Other lives
    Molly Bodinetz obituary

    Other lives: Clinical psychologist striving to prevent family breakdown and young people from entering care

January 2025

  • Woman and young man standing in a street

    Indigenous affairs reporting
    Patsy Brown thought she’d never see her child again – until a letter changed her life forever

  • Hannah Cho in An Update on our Family.

    The watcher
    An Update on Our Family: the utterly shocking tale of the ‘family vloggers’ who ‘rehomed’ their adopted son

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