Fact Sheet #11: OFFICIAL ADMISSION: ADOPTION WAS NOT IN BABY'S BEST INTERESTS

The 1975 Children Act brought immense changes to adoption in Britain. Its implementation was an official admission that adoption had not been in the child’s best interests.

For the first time in adoption history the child would come first,
its welfare and interests legally protected by Act of Parliament.

In the 5th edition of her book ‘Adoption’, Margaret Kornitzer, Social Worker and Adoption guru, specifically warns prospective adopters of the adverse effects the 1975 Act will have on them.

• The welfare of the child in all adoption processes must now be the first consideration.
• It's less easy to adopt a child today than it used to be.
• The law has been tightened.
• There are more statutory safeguards for the child.
• More scrutinising of adopter's claim to be a suitable person to care for a strange infant.

Margaret Kornitzer’s warning exposes the pre-1975 lie that adoption was in the ‘baby’s best interests'.

• Prior to the 1975 Act adoption was in the best interests of the adopters.
• Prospective adopters found it relatively easy to adopt a baby.
• Their motives for adopting a baby were not thoroughly investigated.
• Their suitability to adopt a baby was not scrutinised.
• They were allowed to adopt regardless of the actual or potential risk to the baby.

Pre-1975 Social Workers and Moral Welfare Workers operated in the sure and certain knowledge they would not be held accountable for their actions.

In 1999, a senior Social Worker involved in pre-1975 adoptions and aware unmarried mothers had not been told their rights, informed Chair of Trackers International: "We have Government assurance there will not be a Public Inquiry into adoptions of the past"

GIVING ‘DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY’ TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR FORCED ADOPTIONS MAKES A MOCKERY OF BRITISH JUSTICE.

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