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To: ladysusan
I will look. I am a recovering social worker, are you too?
129 posted on 06/13/2003 2:18:41 PM PDT by Diva Betsy Ross ((were it not for the brave, there would be no land of the free -))
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To: No More Gore Anymore
I will look. I am a recovering social worker, are you too?

NO, I am a retired nurse turned independent filmmaker whose family has been disrupted for three generations now by social workers. My great grandfather lost all five of his kids when his wife developed pneumonia and died three weeks after giving birth. Her sister moved into the duplex to help raise the family. The wreckers took all the kids from my ggf because of "immorality" i.e., my ggm's sister moving in UPSTAIRS to raise her departed sister's kids. Evidently, just living in the same building with the family, even tho they slept down and my g-aunt slept up, was cause enough. The four eldest kids , including my gm , were placed into an orphanage, where they were not even allowed to acknowledge that they knew one another. They grew up in that place. The newborn was adopted by a physician and his wife who used my g-aunt as a house servant all her life. My ggf disappered, probably into a pit pf despiar after losing his entire family in one blow. The child who was adopted was raised Protestant; the other kids Catholic; it caused a permanent rift in the family.

The other generation involves one of my peers within the family, who lost her firstborn to forced adoption in 1968. She developed severe recurrent depression, PTSD, and a host of other psychological ills from the adoption. The family again was split between those who forced the adoption and those who had no say.

My current project is a documentary on forced adoption in the 1960s. I have studied the topic for years and years, and interviewed literally hundreds and hundreds of people who were affected by adoption. As a nurse, mother, and citizen, I have an interest in child welfare. As a filmmaker, I have a responsibility to bring light to the community. That's where I am coming from. What's your background?

142 posted on 06/13/2003 2:32:40 PM PDT by ladysusan (Social wreckers, not social workers)
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