Obviously gut-wrenching and what’s the word I’m looking for–oh, it’s wrong–how young mothers were forced to put their children up for adoption against their will:
Most of the mothers interviewed for this story said the coercion was systematic: From the church-run maternity homes where accommodation was sometimes predicated on adoption and where mothers had to write a letter to their unborn child explaining the separation; to the social workers who concealed information about social assistance and who told single mothers they could be charged with child endangerment; to the medical staff who called the women “sluts” and denied them painkillers, and who reportedly tied teenagers to their beds or obstructed their view of labour with a sheet. “To the Canadian establishment, this will come as a big surprise,” said Ms. Lynn, who heads the Canadian Council of Natural Mothers, which aims to expose the negative treatment of mothers in adoption practice. “What we hear all the time is, ‘You gave up your baby.’ What I say is that, at very best, it was a tragic choice.”
And speaking of “tragic choices”–today we feed young mothers a line about how it is a rock solid choice to kill their unborn children instead of putting them up for adoption. In not too long we’ll have newspapers reporting that story.
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It is thoroughly unacceptable to treat anyone in ways described in the above article and these incidents do damage to the opportunity of adoption. Adoption is a big deal and there are sad stories as well as many cases where the birth mother is totally at peace with adoption for herself and her child.
When I worked with teenaged mothers our organization was designed to support the mother in parenting while treating adoption as a positive alternative. In noting that within one year of birth one third had abandoned their child, one third had the child taken away by children’s services and one third continued to parent adoption seemed like a pretty good alternative in many cases.