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Dec 21, 2022

Food

For the Western world it is the time of year to think about food. And it is probably the time of year that most of us worry about food too. For some of us maybe we are concerned about whether we can afford the big blow-out; especially this year —…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Nov 30, 2022

Forced adoption in the UK

An interesting article recently appeared in Prospect Magazine in the UK about forced adoptions: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society-and-culture/the-uk-has-a-forced-adoption-problem Comments had closed by the time I noticed it, but I thought I’d post my thoughts here instead. The article is primarily about lack of support for birth parents and kinship carers, but it is…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Oct 19, 2022

Should adoption in the UK be renamed?

#YouCanAdopt It is National Adoption Week in the UK again. So there’ll no doubt be people thinking about it right now, if the publicity has hit home. If you’ve landed here because you’ve been looking then no doubt you’ve already braved the cesspit of the Internet to find out a…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Oct 12, 2022

Opposition

When you feel intensely that what you are being asked to do is not in your (or the group’s) best interests you are likely to oppose it. Why wouldn’t you? It is a basic survival instinct. In our relatively free and liberal Western world there isn’t actually that much day-to-day…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Jul 22, 2022

The Fog

I’ve no idea how long the phrases ‘being fogged’ or ‘being in the fog’ have been around, as I’ve said before I’m not exactly the most up-to-date with the latest social media hate-fest shenanigans. Strava and Medium are about the closest I get to being on social media and even…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Apr 20, 2022

Sibling Separation

A BBC programme about siblings separated in the care system hit the headlines recently (well, a few months ago!) and seemed to cause a bit of an uproar in the press about the unfairness, but then equally as quickly seems to have been forgotten again. …

Adoption

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Adoption

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Mar 16, 2022

Object permanence

Imagine if when a person walks out the room, they are gone for an indeterminate length of time. Could be forever. Not just a specific person, but every person you know. Now imagine if when you drop an item you own and look away from it, it disappears for an…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Feb 23, 2022

Regression

No, this isn’t an article about the statistical method of linear regression. It’s about something much more complicated than that. This is about the curious situations that occur when a child regresses, i.e. returns in body and mind to an age that can be much younger than they are now…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Dec 13, 2021

‘Disruption’

A recent article on a BBC radio show about a disruption in an adoptive family has caused a kerfuffle on social media among adoptees especially, according to a podcast I’ve just heard. I’ve heard the article myself (can’t find a link sorry), and was pretty surprised too. There are many…

Adoption

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Adoption

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Nov 8, 2021

Slaying some adoption myths

My first listicle, I’m really getting into this blogging thing. As adoption is expressed in many different forms throughout the world and throughout history, there is understandably a lot of confusion about what it actually entails. …

Adoption

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Adoption

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