Information on adoption
Sir, — The most recent letter from Mrs Quin, spokesperson for Birth Parents Anonymous, is an attack on abortion, solo parenthood, and open adoption. It makes me wonder whether her organisation really exists to defend the interests of birth parents or whether it is another religious moral group. Does she really want to return to the days of secret shame and double standards, to overflowing “orphanages” and advertisements seeking pregnant girls as cheap domestic help? As for J. Robertson’s letter, we surely have a tragic situation if birth mothers can tell friends of their past, but are not able to tell their children or husbands. I believe that the law should provide for discreet contacts to be made possible between adult adopted children and their birth parents. I do not believe such a law needs to have the dire consequences some of your correspondents seem to suppose. — Yours, etc., ALAN WILKINSON. October 21, 1984.
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