‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity
‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity
Holy shit just landing this on people apropos of nothing is the worst idea imaginable.
How the fuck can you go "finding out at an older age i was adopted smashed my life" and immediately think "Lets campaign to do it to everyone else"
The upset stems from being lied to all that time
of course. so we should hurt them without their permission, consent or involvement. Why, exactly?
edit: Because I'm not sure you've actually read the article: The scenario here is that these idiots want to have an official government notification sent to every adult currently aware of their adoption status saying "You're adopted"
literally. Among its 39 recommendations, Broken Bonds, Fractured Lives recommended the WA government notifies all adult adopted persons not already aware of their adopted status. A system of automatic notification would be the first of its kind in Australia.
the timeline of the forced adoption process they're talking about is 1940's to 1980, mostly the former So we're talking about absolutely destroying a friggin' 60, 70, 80 year olds entire sense of self for...what, exactly?
This is cruelty on a mindboggling scale. And you persist in defending it when there's literally alternatives being proposed right there.
My half sister didnt know her step father wasnt her real father. She found out when she was 19 because another half sister of ours (my father got around) found her on Facebook.
It shattered her.
I was told when I was 5 years old by my mom I was adopted by my step father. She did it in a shitty way, (during their messy kids in the middle divorce) but at least she was honest.
Definitely prefer the way I found out, to the way my sister did. Finding out young, I think it was easier for me to adapt, and have support. My sister still doesn't have a great relationship with her mom and step father, and it's been some years.
Kids don't like it when their parents lie to them, who knew.
This is just too sad.
Identity. Most overrated fad thing ever. People with no personality trying to find meaning in completely irrelevant information. Oh, you're a gay martian? That's cool I guess, but can you juggle?!?
EDIT: Oh wow. What a horrible cunt of a person in the interview. She didn't deserve her family.
Try living for fifty years without the natural ability others enjoy to maintain an identity and then tell me its overrated.
Ask me in 3 years.
47 in sept, ASD.
This magical ability to "maintain an identity" you speak of, is not a real thing that exist. Learning that you don't have to define yourself by circumstantial irrelevant bullshit you've got no control over like age, sex, family or skin colour will only lead to you being yourself.
I mean honestly, at the end of the day why should you have to tell them if they look like they fit in, and they're happy, let that be.
Medical history would be pretty important.
Wouldn't it be better to just make that information available on request? Make it known that they can retrieve that information at any time, but they don't have to if they prefer not to know.
that's the recommendation, to build a framework and make information more easily obtainable to people who are questioning their birth status.