Adoptee Watch UK Introductory Page

This intro page gets straight to the point. Some of us UK Adoptees want to leave Adoption and it's legally fictionalized identity claims . Why ? Well, let's turn this back to you - why do you want your identity and sense of it ? If you've never had your identity taken away from you then you cannot easily understand but for seconds perhaps you can appreciate some kind of internally voided state .

If you are happily Adopted though , fine. Plenty of Adopted people are not happy, some were badly mistreated and were older at Adoption and the problem is their sense of Self was over-ridden/overwritten . So some of us will work for legal action know-how for Revocation Rights and reform to become who we feel we really are and have paperwork to reflect our truths.

Adoptee Watch UK has been set up in March 2023 by two of us as an evolution from Facebook groups and many previous 2021 representations of Adoptee related concerns both to the All Parliamentary Group On Adoption & Permanence (APGAP) as well as Ministers in the efforts to show some 2021 lay survey figures of adult Adoptees that were child abused inside Adoption. Two of us were involved in creating pressure for others to see there was a lack of access to the right therapy in the UK for Adoptees emotionally injured inside Adoption. See a fuller article for that and the stats gathered which also went to the Joint Committee On Human Rights August 2022

The most keen focus for Adoptee Watch UK is to find a legal pathway to Revoke Adoption under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act which we believe supports the right of people to self identify comfortably as they wish especially beyond 18. That gives them the right to a private life. We believe, in some cases where Adoptees are not happy with a State/Court ordered identity, as "adopted" then it should be set aside for mental health hygiene and psychological health reasons .

We also believe Adoption is iatrogenically creating neurosis right across it's State supported sectors and that neurosis of "split selves" is unnecessary, needs challenging and opposing for psychologically healthier alternatives such as Guardianship Orders and/or Kinship Care .

We will keep up with news and articles on various stations such as other Adoptee associated webspots some owned by others with different angles of struggle but all seeking better ways forwards .

LATEST HERE :

Oct 2024 : All diary updates from the 2002 - 24 Forced Adoption/Care Order Survey

Further Links To Work And Others Below:

1. Articles by Paul Brian Tovey : Adoptee

1b "Researching Reform" child welfare articles by Natasha Phillips