Before death: she-who-raised-me let me know they Did know who my birth mother was as they had interviewed her, and had paid for her room, board and medical care before I was born he-who-raised-me let me know of an even bigger secret ***** they lied to me for their own good 🥚

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Mothers coerced/forced into adoption are survivors of traumatic births, child loss, missing child, and often medical trauma, in addition to multiple levels of emotional, physical, and psychological trauma. This is a women’s rights issue that is never even acknowledged. #adoption #womensrights

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"Lying to a child doesn’t protect the child. It protects the people lying. Lying to a person is not love. Concealing a person’s identity is abuse — state sanctioned." 🥚

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" When there’s institutional betrayal, things get worse; it adds harm. . People, if they get upset at all, talk about how the institutions fail to respond well afterward. And that’s all important and meaningful. But I think it’s even a bigger deal that they fail to prevent this from occurring."

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Here's a version without a paywall: "California adoptees continue push in Legislature for original birth certificates" 🥚 www.union-bulletin.com/news/nationa...

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