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Australia: Benevolent Society issues forced adoptions apology
From ABC Sydney: Australia’s oldest charity, the Benevolent Society, has apologised for past adoption practices that included forcing some women to give up their children for adoption. The society ran the Royal Hospital for Women at Paddington in inner Sydney until 1992, and also ran an adoption service from Scarba Welfare House for Children at [...]
Australia: Samoan adoption case raises fears over trafficking
From The Sydney Morning Herald: A four-year-old girl who had been informally given to a Sydney couple under a traditional Samoan adoption arrangement should return to her parents in Samoa, the Family Court has ruled. The girl known as ”S” had been promised to a childless great aunt and her husband before birth, but had [...]
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