Wales (Adoption Related) Message Board
Add a message to this board Boards Menu Search Boards marie and david davies newport gwent south wales, UK Feb 08, 2002 we are looking for a daughter born newport south wales on 10 5 62 Reply to this message   Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire UK Feb 08, 2002 URGENT! Please Write to Your MP about Adoption Bill! Dear All I have something very important to tell everyone here on the list. The government is trying to pass the Adoption and Children Bill quietly so you won't notice that they are not giving you your rights - especially adult adoptees! Tell your MP that you ARE related to your birthfamily/adoptive family - the government says you are not in this bill. Tell your MP that searches for family should be made a LEGAL right for everyone -that "guidelines" do not work because requests can be denied on the whim of a social worker as they often are at the moment. There is no recourse in cases of refusal to search. Tell your MP that the Adoption Contact Register discriminates against birthfamilies. Adoptees are charged 15 pounds and told everything. Birth relatives are charged 30 pounds(TWICE AS MUCH!) and are told NOTHING! Not even if contact is made or rejected leaving birthfamilies in limbo and reluctant to use the Register. No one seems to know it exists which makes it rather useless in the first place. ***********MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL!************** Tell your MP that you want this bill to be "retroactive". At the moment the government says that the rights they are going to give adult adoptees will only apply to those adopted AFTER the bill is passed. This means that no one on this list will be entitled to those rights! These rights will only apply to those adopted AFTER the bill when they reach adulthood in 18 YEARS time! Tell your MP you are protesting against the lack of rights for the MILLIONS of adult adoptees if this bill goes through as it is. Tell your MP that you want them to oppose the bill if it is not made "retroactive". Get everyone you know to write to their MP on this important bill which affects everyone on this list. Here is the web site for MP's and how to contact them; Here is the snail mail address: House of Commons London SW1A 0AA You can also e-mail some of them on this web site; http://www.parliament.uk/commons/cminfo.htm Click on "Members and Ministers" Click on " Alphabetical List of Members of Parliament" Also write to Alun Milburn, Health Secretary (it is his bill - tell him that you are not happy with this bill because of the above points) PLEASE, PLEASE WRITE! We will not get another chance to oppose the injustices contained in this bill. The more letters, the better. You don't have to be an adoptee or birthparent to protest about the injustices of this bill. We must pressure the government to change this bill NOW! Many thanks for your help and support. Cathy Henderson - Birthmother to Alastair Found 16 May 2001 Reply to this message   Lynn USA Feb 05, 2002 I was born 15 september 1967 at Glossop Terrace/Cardiff Royal Infirmary,(Cardiff, South Wales ) and was adopted 5 days later. I would like any information concerning my birth family. Reply to this message   Michael Gerrard UK Feb 03, 2002 OSHEA DELANEY GARRITY I am looking for my birth parent Josephine johanna (maiden name oshea) my fathers name was Austin Delaney(ossie)he worked on anglesey in 1952 he was an excavator driver for a cival engineering company working on the octel site in Amlwch i believe i had a sister possible name of rosie or bridie not sure if older or younger, my mother left me in the care of Llew and maggie gerrard in machine street in Amlwch,my mother contacted Llew sometime later and asked if they would adopt me,which they did in 1955,a letter was recieved on the 14 september 1955 by the registry from my grandmother Ellen oshea trying to change the name delaney on my adoption certificate, my mothers name was then garrity i can only assume she remarried, any infomation would be appreciated, thankyou Reply to this message   paul williams wales, UK Feb 02, 2002 seeking margaret williams birth mother, her faimily lived at henwaun bungalow, seven sisters, Neath. i was born at glossop terrace maternity unit september 1958 was given the name paul. Reply to this message   PORT TALBOT, wales Jan 26, 2002 my mother was born on the 29th march 1943 in cardiff west her given name by her birth parents was kathleen ann.Her parents names were WILLIAM VENN and MARY VENN formerly know as MARY DAVIES. The adress given was 21 Allerton street Cardiff. Would like to know if there are any living family. Reply to this message   Bethan |Mitchell Scunthorpe, UK Jan 20, 2002 Born 09:02:67,girl, in hospital at Colwyn Bay, North Wales. No birth name or any other details. Any information glady received. Reply to this message   Bethan Mitchell Scunthorpe, UK Jan 20, 2002 Born 09:02:67 GIRL, (no birth name), adopted at 6 weeks old from Colwyn Bay.Any information gladly received. Reply to this message   Prev Next Add a message to this board Boards Menu Search Boards