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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.
Here’s our own KATHY!!!!
After all the housecleaning frenzies, it looks to be that the later stories, aka what I interviewed for, might have been bumped for the opportunity to actually have a reunion on the show. I will only be disappointed if the end result make it seem like “adoption is different now”.
An investigation into claims by women that they were forced to put their babies up for adoption, many with the knowledge and support of Catholic Charities. It has been a little discussed practice for decades but this special hour-long program will remove the veil of secrecy that has led to emotional trauma for unwed mothers around the world.
Dan Rather Reports airs Tuesdays at 8pm ET on HDNet. “Adopted or Abducted?” airs May 1, 2012.
Thanks for telling us about this. It makes this adoptive mama terribly nervous, but we have to be knowledgeable if we’re going to be ethical. I appreciate the resource.
Kudos to Kathy, you and all you participated. I am anxious to see (but already prepared with many tissues as just reading/watching this post made me cry)
I’m new here but wanted to put my two cents in…I am SO looking forward to seeing this. I will be outraged if they put the spin of “it isn’t so bad now” at the end!! I have posted these links on my FB to encourage my friends and family to watch and if they DO end it like that all my trying to explain the pain and have understanding will have been not naught Im afraid.
(just for your info-I am also a first mom of 27 years-in an open adoption)
I certainly hope it doesn’t end that way. I lost my daughter in 1980 and when I did the phone interview with them I was very clear about the tactics used on me – identical to the BSE. Maybe what they’re doing is saving the later stories for a part 2. They did say they wanted to investigate what happens currently. Let’s hope that’s what they’re doing.
I saw your story on Yahoo news and clicked on your blog. I am amazed and touched by your story of finding your son. I’m a mom of seven and I can only imagine your experience of not knowing anything about him, but thank you for sharing the story. I’m so glad the two of you were reunited!
I was adopted in 1967 and have always wanted to find my birth parents, but don’t know how. My birth mother was not married and taken to California to have me. Thank you for bringing adoption out of the closet and shining a light. It gives me hope that I might, someday, fins a blood connection on this planet…I feel like I am floating through life alone and incomplete.
Lynn- where are you searching?
I have heard you are not on there- I am so disappointed. I will be trying to get it on i tunes. How are you doing?
I’m a adoptee the adoption process in the USA is barbaric , callous and most of all criminal. I’m a human being who obviously had the misfortune of beind adopted so I am not entitled to obtain information regarding my medical history etc. I’ve spent money countless hours attempting to locate Birthparents. I’m going to petition the courts to open my records considering I must provide good cause to the judge who determines if my cause is worthy . I doubt that my ten year old grandson has duchennes muscular dystrophy be suffient. What a conflict of interest . The judges are a part of this process called closed adoption. I will continue to search despite the hopelessness and pain I endure on a daily basis as a result of being adopted. No one should have to live with this you will never know unless youre adopted.