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Light blue background graphic. Header reads “@adopteescrossinglines.” A small arrow icon sits in the top right. Bold title: “Adoptees have been naming harm in health care long before anyone studied it.” Body text explains that a 2025 study shows clinicians aren’t trained to care for adopted adults, and that dismissal and gaps in knowledge show up in appointments, charts, and interactions. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).”

Light blue background graphic. Header “@adopteescrossinglines” with a small arrow icon on the right. Bold title: “The study captured what many adoptees experience every day.” Body text describes clinicians making stereotypical comments, dismissing concerns, repeatedly asking for family medical history adoptees don’t have, and listing “adopted person” like a diagnosis. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).”

Light blue background graphic. Header “@adopteescrossinglines” with an arrow icon on the right. Bold title: “Those experiences have consequences.” Body text explains that adoptees facing adoption-related discrimination were more than seven times more likely to delay care or switch providers, not from avoiding help but from being dismissed or misunderstood. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).”

Light blue background graphic. Header “@adopteescrossinglines” with an arrow icon on the right. Bold title: “Adoptees deserve care that sees the whole picture.” Body text states that adoptees deserve clinicians who understand missing family history isn’t a moral failing, and deserve screening plans, forms, and spaces that reflect their actual families and lived experiences. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).”

A new national study confirms what adoptees have said for decades: medical care isn’t neutral for us.

#adopteesky

A vast number of mothers in maternity homes did not enter willingly but were literally incarcerated by the Children’s Aid Society or youth courts. This will not be disclosed in your adoption records, as the CYFSA and YCJA prohibit such disclosure. 2/2
#HiddenHIstories
#MaternityHomes

“Maternity homes aided,” North Bay Nugget, Jun 25, 1983, 2.

🥚If you’re an adoptee and your mother was a ward of a Children’s Aid Society, this won’t show in your records. Same if she was a "juvenile delinquent" or a ward of an Industrial/Training School—all of which means she was effectively incarcerated.

Why did admissions to maternity homes decline?👇1/2

JFMR Statement Regarding a Significant Error in Testimony Documentary
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Manitoba, Canada took part in 'intentional destruction' of Red River Métis culture via Sixties Scoop: lawsuit | CBC News The Manitoba Métis Federation is suing the provincial and federal governments after the Red River Métis were largely excluded from a class action settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors.

🥚The Manitoba Métis Federation is suing the provincial and federal governments after the Red River Métis were largely excluded from a class action settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors.

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YouTube video by Kristal Parke Episode 09 | Dr.Richard Wenzel

🥚Riveting NPE journey that began with an at-home DNA test and unfolded into the discovery that his father was not his genetic father.

@1:00:08 Wenzel states:

“you’re a health care professional and you are knowingly and wilfully documenting false information”

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YouTube video by Rocliffe Productions Testimony Trailer Digital - Updated

Testimony
JFMR Statement: Testimony Documentary to be released in Irish and UK Cinemas
More info here: jfmresearch.com/testimony/
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🥚The Privilege of Not Being Adopted: Survival, Trauma, and the Closed Circuit of Ego Unconsciousness
“Why Non-Adoptees Are Ignoring Adoptee Trauma – And It’s Hurting Everyone”

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🥚Report covers “Acquiring children from adults in institutional care.” Canada tracked some adoptions from “unwed mothers,” but not those involving forcibly institutionalized parents (including juveniles) or unmarried parents more broadly—very different categories.

it’s been a while since I mentioned that i created a feed for posts by people who are adopted/trafficked/purchased out of their original families. please consider adding it. And if you would like to post to it, please let me know in a reply. 🥚

🥚Adoptees of incarcerated moms exist—but no one’s paying attention. No research. No tracking. Just silence.

🥚6-mth follow-up, breast exam.
The dreaded question — your family history.
“I’m adopted.”
“Oh, sorry — yes, you are. I didn’t see that.”
“What? It’s on my chart?” I exclaim.
I check — literally a box ticked for Adopted.
“New field,” she says.
Digital progress: logged. Human noticing: still pending.

However, the report did not examine other ethnicities in maternity homes, nor separated, deserted, widowed, or divorced individuals (now considered unmarried parents) whose children were forcibly adopted, whether in or out of maternity homes. 3/5

The Senate report (The Shame is Ours) specifically focuses on white, unwed mothers in maternity homes — institutions where mothers went to have their babies adopted.
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‘60s Scoop survivors call for national inquiry - APTN News Sixties Scoop survivors and Manitoba Indigenous organizations are calling for a national inquiry into the...

🥚How many were scooped from criminalized parents?

"Sixties Scoop... calling for a national inquiry into the tens of thousands of Indigenous children who were scooped from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes as a result of government policies."

www.aptnnews.ca/videos/60s-s...

Sentenced at Birth | Literary Review of Canada Amy Reiswig explores the legal system's denial of children's rights and mother-child separation in Robin F. Hansen’s “Prison Born.”

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🥚For all those adoptees punished in utero, whose carceral birth histories were hidden as they suffered innumerable harms and whose lives were cut short — may their truths be unearthed, their stories honored, and the silence end for those still unaware of their carceral beginnings.

4 girls — including my mother — escaped Mercer’s OTS wing but were caught and locked in the dungeon, where another desperate escape was attempted. It’s time to end these brutal, inhumane isolation conditions that disproportionately affect Indigenous, Black, and disabled people.

#S205 #EndSeg

Chambers, L. (2006). Adoption, unwed mothers and the powers of the Children’s Aid Society in Ontario, 1921-1969. Ontario History, 98(2), 161–182. https://doi.org/10.7202/1065824ar

🥚Statistics from the Children of Unmarried Parents Act were used to support claims of mass adoption among unmarried mothers. So how is it that only 562 out of 4,023 consented to relinquishment — or 562 out of 1,992 non-cohabiting mothers?

Race? Age? Institution? Incarcerated mothers?
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🥚Adoptees of Bluesky: Horrendous case of Ashley Smith! 👇For those who don’t know, she was an adoptee too.

What would Canada uncover if it examined carceral births—children born to incarcerated mothers, especially those labeled “juvenile delinquents”? These histories are still sealed under youth protection laws, leaving adoptees unaware of their institutional origins.

Disgusting. What home was your mother in do you know?

The Globe and Mail, Wed, Jun 26, 1946 ·Page 13

🥚Adoptee born of a mother at a Salvation Army home?
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories

🥚𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐒𝐤𝐲:
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.

“Girls Expelled,” The Sault Star, Oct 01, 1968, 1.

🥚Note to adoptees: Youth protection laws will prevent you from learning your mother’s circumstances—whether she was criminalized or not. As one account explains, "girls found wandering the city streets are picked up by police and convicted of vagrancy even though they committed no criminal offence.”

Adoption Network Cleveland Calendar of Events and Programs Don't miss upcoming programs for individuals and families impacted by adoption and foster care, trainings, social events and opportunities to support Adoption Network Cleveland!

🥚VIRTUAL - Finding Your Voice: From Personal Journey to Shared Experience with Deborah Jiang-Stein
Monday, October 13, 2025
8:00 pm9:00 pm
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🥚Very few adoptees know we were born in prison. I suspect thousands share this history — but it’s hidden behind youth privacy laws worldwide.

Upcoming event with Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of Prison Baby.

Today, on #MMIW Action Day, we honour the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People and demand justice and accountability. Too many lives have been lost while governments continue to resist implementing the National Inquiry’s Calls for Justice. 1/2

🥚Canada's "placing-out" system for indentured domestic and farm labour often secured the children of criminalized and incarcerated women and girls.
Full story of the D’Andrea, case coming soon.

Re D'Andrea, 1916 CanLII 479 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gw6np>, retrieved on 2025-09-27