References: http://www.abusedswan.com/child_protective_services
Maltreatment and Allegations of Maltreatment in Foster Care. A Review of the Evidence
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/research/pdf/FCabuse.pdf
Abused Swan http://www.abusedswan.com/child_protective_services
Abused Swan http://www.abusedswan.com/child_protective_services
Dan Rather Reports: Adopted or Abducted? will devote the entire hour on Tuesday, May 1st to the heartbreaking accounts of women – most of whom were teens at the time – who were forced to hand their babies over for adoption. In a sweeping and exhaustive six month investigation that spanned from Australia to the United States, producers from Dan Rather Reports conducted nearly one hundred interviews with victims of forced adoptions – some of them speaking for the very first time. What they found was a widespread and shocking practice, even at the height of the sexual revolution in the 1960’s and 70’s when unwed pregnancy was still seen as a disgrace, of babies born out of wedlock forcefully put up for adoption.
The many women who felt they were not given a choice, or that they were unable to change their minds as their children were taken from them minutes after birth, continue to be haunted by questions about their children. “Is she alive? Is she healthy? It’s the not knowing that rips your heart out,” said Carla Clary, a 61 year old woman who was forced to give up her first child, a daughter, for adoption in 1967. Speaking exclusively to “Dan Rather Reports,” Clary added, “She’s part of me. She’s my child. I gave birth to her. And having had another daughter and knowing how precious she is to me– I have another one out there someplace that I would like to be a part of my life before I die.” Follow one woman’s journey through the trauma of remembering the forced adoption of her youth and the hope of being reunited with her never-forgotten child:
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