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Nursel
March 9 1969
Istanbul
April 73
Pa
Dr M Bodmer

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Diana
I was born in Feb. 1951
I was born in Va Beach, Va
I was adopted in 1960
I was raised in Virginia
My abuser was in father

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My name is Ave.
I was born on November 22, 1987.
I was born in Austin, Texas.
I was adopted 19 days after my birth (you can do the math).
I was raised in Austin, Texas and a few small towns in Oklahoma.
My abusers were my adoptive mother and father.

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my name is talon
i was born 5/11/1965
i was born in brooklyn new york
i was adopted september 1965
i was raised in new york city
my abusers were my adopted parents

i dont know when the sexual abuse started but i have memories of it happenning when i was in a crib with bars as of my 2nd birthday i no longer slept in a crib.my adopted dad was my sexual abuser .it continued till he raped me at age 4 [the day the astronauts walked on the moon,] it was on tv as he raped me.before that it was molestation and he liked putting strange objects in my vagina like toothbrushes.the sexual abuse ended then till i was 8 and had weekend visitations without supervision he never made me bleed again,now it was my turn toplease him his favorite way was to make me give him a blow job.once i went to boarding school at age 10 i stopped seeing him in places wed be alone i only saw him in public places yet that didnt stop him from trying to touch me.

the emotional abuse and control trips that my adopted mother put me through started very early she admits to only feeding me when i was a baby if the alarm clock went off it didnt matter if i wasnt hungry shed force me and if i was hungry other times i wasnt allowed to eat shes rather proud of this.she had many food control trips as i grew up...putting me on diets at age 5 even though i was normal weight. having no food in the house was normal. my nanny[housekeeper]used to sneak me food.i was so hungry id find a head of lettuce and eat the whole head hiding under my bed boy was i beaten and raged at for that . the verbal abuse was constant too i was never good enough i was always fat i was told all my problems were because of my jewish blood in me[funny thing is not one iota of me is jewish except my first born and the adopted mom will not acknowledge her because shes jewish] another weird thing was the people i wanted to make friends with i was told were not good enough for me and the people she wanted me to make friends with[usually her friends kids]didnt want to be my friends ,,so i had no friends..and the control trips  continued.. when i was very very young i was not allowed to laugh or to cry or to run around and when i did.... ahh now for the physical abuse... shed hit my head with a wooden spoon shed carry it with her all the time to this day i dont have wooden spoons in my house shed also do what i call the windmill hitting shed be raging at me and her hands would be hitting me slapping me one after the other nonstop...one time she was so bad hitting me i locked myself in the bathroom  and she called the firemen to get me out..noone asked me why i locked myself in the bathroom and why my nose was bleeding and i had a black eye!! another time my arm was dislocated she blamed it on my dad but i remember who really yanked me that day..she used to tell me shed like to return me that shed gotten the wrong kid and once i was 10 i no longer had a home/bedroom/even a bed or closet in her home by 16 after adopted dad died she told me i was no longer her responsibility  since there was no more child support coming from him and since then ive had very little contact with her..he took my innocence away she took my childhood away sad thing is i actually bonded with her and grieve the fact she doesnt want me and never will

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About Abuse: 

all i can say about abuse is it should never happen. but it does .and not excusing but understanding i must say this most abusers were abused. its a disease like alcoholism or addictive personality its often learned its passed down from parent to child from teacher to student.we need intervention not witch hunts .more moms and dads would seek help if they didnt think theyd immediately lose custody of their kids . to become a therapist one must go into therapy i beleive that to become a parent one should go to parenting classes and therapy. we go to birth education classes or la maz classes to learn how to have a baby i think there should be parenting classes scheduled for parents as their child grows ,birth,potty training/terrible 2s ,entering school , graduating elementary/adolescence,teens and definately one on letting your child go gracefully when they turn 18.maybe then child abuse would be a rare disease.

About adoption: 

my birth mother ended up in her lifetime forming a grass roots organization in her state that took throwaway children[usually ones who were severely abused sexually/physically and emotionally] out of mental hospitals that the state put them in and helped them heal and helped them learn how to trust again and live in society again,, then she helped them find adoptive parents ones they got to choose [she got that state to allow gay adoption because  often for sexually abused girls it was best to be in a household where there were no men]besides she told the state if not for gay couples wanting them they would be institutionalized...after the kids picked thier adoptive parents my birth mother held seminars in how to care for the adopted child.

her opening statement was this

no matter how bad their birth parents were whether they are muderers or abusers you as adopted parents need to find something good about them to tell the adopted child..for if you hate or put down the birth parent the child will start to hate themselves or put themselves down or think somethings wrong about themselves no matter how young the child no matter how  bad the situation the child is biologically related to them and they know this means they have their birth parents blood running through them..help the child love themselves by finding something good about their biological family to talk about and nurture good feelings never forgetting what happenned but tempering it with nothing is all bad .

one more thing that i call my heart song when you adopt a child i beleive its a life long commitment, even more so then when you push a baby out of yourself ,i feel that the commitment doesnt end at 18 or 21 or when the adoptee marries its forever till the adopted parent or adoptee dies.after all its a covenant when you sign those papers!!!!

NATURAL SON WAS A REAL WINNER

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KAT
1969
SA
1969
SA
MOTHER TREATED ME LIKE 2ND CLASS, HER NAT SON 5YS MY SENIOR i WAS HIS SLAVE GIRL

I HAD TO LET HIM BE GOD, HE WAS THE WINNER & SO I HAD TO BE THE LOOSER,

IT MADE HIM FEEL BETTER ABOUT HIMSELF, WHILE MUMMY WATCHED, SHE LIKED HIM TAKING CONTROL OF ME,

SHE LIKED HIM TO SHOW AUTHORITY AND BECAUSE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD HE WAS A RETARDED PRICK -THAT SCHOOL-BOYS LOVED TO BULLY, HE HAD TO TAKE IT OUT ON ME

 

I COULD DO AND HAVE NOTHING UNLESS HE HAD IT 1ST.

 

 MY ADOPTRESS AND SON = BUNCH OF TWISTED ASSHOLES

 

 

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About adoption: 

MY FEMAL ADOPTER HAD BEEN DIVORCED IN COURT BECUASE HER 1ST HUSBAND CLAIMED SHE MENTAL

2ND HUSBAND DIED, AND SHE WAS SUSPECT

3RD HUSBAND HAD ONE SON AND HEIR, THEN NEEDED A SLAVE GIRL TO SATIFY THIER NEEDS = ME THE ADOPTED ONE 

bY THE WAY MY REAL DAD WANTED TO KEEP ME, SHAME ABOUT THAT, HUH, I COULD HAVE HAD MY REAL FAMILY, MY REAL DAD TRIED TO KEEP ME....NEVER KNEW THAT TILL i WAS 40 YRS OLD

ADOPTION WASNT REQUIRED IN MY CASE, BUT THE SA GOVT GOT IT WRONG, DAMM SHAME

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Lisa
1988
Washington State
1988
Washington - 20 acre horse farm
Adoptive Mom

Physical until about age 12-13

Emotional from as far back as I can remember and still continues

Neglect

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About Abuse: 

I didn't even know it was abuse for a long time. I didn't know that it was wrong. Me and my adoptive mom are not close, have never been close and after many unsuccessful attempts on my part to sever all ties I am still in contact with her. Not frequently though. She had a deadbolt on her bedroom door and hid all the food in her room. Me and my younger brothers were homeschooled. She would lock us outside if she didn't want to be around us anymore. She would hit us with 8ft horse whips or whatever she could get her hands on. She is bi-polar and doesn't take her meds so I have to take that into account...maybe things would be differant if she would take her medication.

About adoption: 

I have reunited with my birthfamily over the summer. I have a full older brother who lives with my birthmom and I have two younger half sisters. One is my birthdads and the other is my birthmoms. My birthdad is an alcoholic and has been since he was 17. My birthmom is a meth user and so is my brother.

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My name is Nikki
I am told I was born on September 27, 1969
in Our Lady of Victory Infant Home in Lackawanna, NY.
I am told I was placed with my adoptive family on April 23, 1970 and that my adoption was finalized on February 5, 1971.
I was raised outside Buffalo, New York, first in a duplex that housed me and my afamily upstairs, and my afather's mom & dad, two sisters and three of their daughters downstairs. After my grandfather died, my aparents would convert to born again christianity. They bought a house of their own and cut us off from my afather's side of the family because they refused to forsake their Catholicism.
My amother was the person from whom I received the most crap, but my afather would also dole out the punishment. There were six kids, my older brother T and myself were adopted (but not related). Then there were two girls, St and E, and two boys, Sc and J, who were born following my adoption. My older abrother terrorized all of the kids, bullying his way to whatever he wanted. One time T went to punch my youngest brother J so hard, he put his hand clear through the wall when J ducked.

Having spent the first seven months of my life in the Infant Home, I would need to be placed with a family where the adults had the ability to patiently nurture me in order to bond.  You could not have picked a person more the opposite than my amother.  She could be that person in doses, but usually saved those doses for her bio kids.  For me she saved her hate and venom, telling me repeatedly from the time I was 4 or 5 that I was stupid, retarded, that I had my brains in my ass, and that she knew I didn't love her.  (She repeated the last one following my wedding.)  She hated that I was a tomboy and told me to grow up and act like a girl should. 

She wouldn't wait until I actually did something wrong to beat on me.  If she had a bad day, she would seek me out.  Punching, kicking, grabbing me by the neck, ripping out my hair, etc.  I didn't even have to say anything to get my face slapped out of the blue.  She would just say that I should wipe the look off my face.  There were times when my afather would stop speaking to me and looking at me for weeks and then explode and beat me in a fit of rage.  It seemed to happen periodically, at least once a year.  The last time was when I was 16. He tearfully apologized the next morning, and never beat me again.  I am still not sure what those incidents were about.

My amother was convinced I was going to become pregnant before graduating high school like my bmom.  She never said this outright, but controlled my every move (I had a 9 pm curfew until I was a senior in high school.  Then it was 10 pm.), who my friends could be, and my "sex" talk at 16 was if I got pregnant, I was not allowed to have an abortion, they would not raise the baby and that I would not be allowed to raise it in their house.  All the isolation, control, verbal and physical crap drove me to enlist in the Navy when I was 17 just to get away from her.  I knew if I stayed I would commit suicide just to escape her insults, her rages, and her control.  I had already tried several times by then.

Your Message
About Abuse: 

The mistreatment of children, in whatever form, regardless of the period of time, robs us of being able to root ourselves in a safe, caring world and sets us up to spend an untold amount of energy throughout our adult lives wrestling with the fact that we will never have a caring, nurturing childhood.  We then have to find ways to fill the hole we're left with.  Some can do this more successfully than others.

The foster care, adoption, and child placement industries have priorities that are financially motivated first and foremost, which means the needs and wants of children are secondary.  Knowingly giving a child to a household that has no skills and no ability to raise a child into a confident, caring young adult should be a crime.  If the state has to pay to care for and provide for children because there aren't adults who are adequate parents, and to keep siblings together, then so be it.  It's not just a moral responsibility to guarantee children safety and health, it's a social responsibility.  In a country that claims to be a democracy, it ought to be a mandate.

About adoption: 

I cannot remember a time that I did not know I was adopted.  But I do remember that I was not allowed to ask what that meant and where my bmom was without being beaten and punished.  Just as when I was a child/adolescent, I'm now expected and legally required to live my life without being able to anchor who I am to history, to a place and to people.  Not only me, but my son is expected to do the same, to make do with half his history, and so will his children.  To have to live out my life in the 21st century according to the social moors and resulting laws from the middle of the last century is nonsensical. 

There is a whole generation of unfinished stories with no substantial, logical reason for remaining so.  At one point in the 1970's, women couldn't secure an abortion, could not obtain birth control pills without their husband being present, were still, for the most part, working in the home, and a whole generation of women had built up no social security benefits or credit record.  All of those things have changed, and closed adoption is one of  the last bastions standing from that era.  It is time for lawmakers and citizens alike to get over their insecurities and their need for control so that a generation of adopted adults who have had decisions made without their consent can start choosing for themselves.

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Robin Elizabeth
I was born in October 1959
Memphis, TN
Adopted in 1963 in California by my foster parents
I was raised in a beach community in California.
My abusers were both parents; but primarily my adopted mother

From as early as I remember (before my adoption) I was subjected to emotional, psychological, verbal and physical abuse by my foster mom who later became my adopted mom.  Both parents drank alcohol daily and believed in corporal punishment. My father hit me also. But not nearly as bad as she did. And she constantly put me down, let me know I wasn't good enough.

My worst beating occured during the summer I was 13. My mother beat me with a board so badly that my backside was black & blue from top to bottom and side to side. I had difficulty sitting down for several days.  One friend saw the bruises, but I swore her to secrecy.  All she could say was, "Oh my God, Robin!" 

Police officers came to my junior high. They asked me if my parents hit me; did I had any bruises & could I show them.  Fortunately, I didn't have any bruises. "Fortunately".  Of course I denied that my parents hit me. I was scared to death that when my parents found out I'd 'really get it!'    

I got pregnant at 16 by the only boy I'd ever dated. My adopted mom told me I was a "tramp & a whore, just like your mother!"

Two days after my dad died, my mom disowned me by leaving a message on my voice mail.

Your Message
About Abuse: 

Abuse doesn't just affect the one who's abused. It affects everyone in the abused person's life for a very long time. I affected my children, who were raised not by an abusive mother, but by one who was terribly insecure, who felt like a failure no matter what successes she had, who had trouble expressing loving emotions and was somewhat 'shut off' (for lack of a better description).

My childrend suffered.  My relationships suffered. I was never fully able to accept that anyone could love me.  I still struggle with that today.  The terrible things my a.mom said to me, I'd repeat out loud. Her words hurt those who love me, like my husband.  I learned to stop repeating her words out loud.

About adoption: 

Why would anyone go to the trouble of adopting a child and then abuse that child?  Sadly adoption is no guarantee that an adoptee will end up in a home free from abuse, or that the child will be loved & cared for as every child deserves. 

Still, I support adoption for children who've lost their parents for whatever reason. Every child deserves to have loving parents & a stable home to grow up in.  But the adoption industry needs sweeping reforms.  It must be "child centered". 

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Michelle
04/01/1972
Independence, Louisiana
1985-- after 10 years in foster care with adoptive family
Bogalusa, Louisiana
Delores M., adoptive mother; Brian R., foster brother and fellow foster child

Slapping, Punching, Violent Shaking, Hair-pulling, Ear-pulling, Kicking, Throwing, Hitting with various objects (stick, belt, wooden spoon, hot curling iron, fly-swatter) from age 3 to age 19

Threatened with knife, threaten to be beaten until "the blood comes out," among other verbal threats from age 3 to age 17

Humiliation, degradation, physical and verbal abuse in public; referred to as having "emotional problems," told that I was just like my birth mother while speaking ill of her.  age 3 to age 34

Sexual abuse by older foster child #1, attempted rape by older foster child #2 (when I was around age 10).  Blamed for it when I talked about it at 19.

Controlled social interactions, friends had to be kids from our church or a similar church, not allowed to join activities such as Girls Scounts.  Forced to play piano in church; not allowed to play classical music, only religious music.  Television was strictly censored to programs adopters liked, as was music.

 

 

 

Your Message
About Abuse: 

The stories of abuse while in foster care are increasing.  What people don't usually talk about is the abuse after the child is adopted.  Adoption is viewed as a means of rescuing a child from unfortunate circumstances, and often this is true.  There are many children whose lives were made better by their new parents' love and affection.  Sadly, there are many of us whose stories haven't been heard because of the myth that adoption always leads to a better life.

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Infant Atwell
12 Dec 1965
El Paso, Texas
27 july 1966
Texas and Arizona
Abuser: Adoptive father and adoptive mother, Tom and Terry

Constant verbal abuse by both aparents. Physical abuse by afather until 14. Afather would put us in dangerous situations (example: line us up and shoot at us with live ammo, told to hold still). Afather set my play house on fire (with me in it) when I was five (he needed the insurance money). A passerby saw the fire and got me out. Afather was not happy. I cut all ties with aparents when I was 19.

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