Category: Adoption

Controversial topic… this is less about how to ‘trick’ the system but how to survive and keep what is yours.

This may not work in every case but it has worked in some cases. I got the idea about this entry after talking to my son’s dad after ten years earlier today. This was the plan that I knew worked at that time but he went ghost and my son was given to strangers to…

06/08/2022
Some things aren’t that straight forward for vulnerable adults … let me explain.

There’s the logical attitude that if someone loses a child to adoption then it’s simple… all they have to do is try again. That may seem simple when it comes to being a non-disabled person but involves much more challenges / issues. I am also not the same person after all the trauma of my…

01/08/2022
Retraumatised all over again.

I was browsing through tiktok earlier this evening. There was a video come up about a forced adoption. The woman said they’d just heard a woman come out of a courtroom screaming after the judge had just ruled a care and placement order in the local authorities favour (which means that they can place the…

21/07/2022
I dislike this date.

I am awake because my ankle is quite painful again. I don’t like the 16th because of it being my sons birthday. This is just a constant reminder every year that I can’t be with him. I had more to drink than usual. I probably won’t understand a word of the notes I’ve written for…

16/04/2021
I feel slightly better about my own personal situation now that I’ve asked around. These are the things that I do know around the whole adoption process.

I decided to pose the question regarding letterbox contact with birth families earlier today. I posted the same question in several of the groups full of parents that have had experiences with social services. There seems to be many that do not have contact via letterbox. Many of those had letterbox contact approved at the…

25/01/2021