Dawn millward

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[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@Imani_Barbarin Superb thread. Thanks.
For Alice. My amazing, talented, funny daughter.
Alice is an art graduate and art teacher.
And needs work.
She has sent 100s applications.
Nothing.
Why?
Alice uses crutches
See Alice as the person. The teacher.
Not. The disabled one
#Disability
#family

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

Ashbourne shrovetide football
#downards
#Ashbourne
#Derbyshire
#football

[Chris Clarke🇺🇦 @listerthrawn]

@ShrovetideLive The hug by the river. Feel free to reuse.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@NairYasmin @AnxiousRage @corsent @CranburyDanser The right to know.
Basic human right. And a basic adoptee right.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@FreyasDisciple @StoppingAbuse1 I'm so sorry.
I couldn't not post a comment.
And I couldn't just , like, your comment as I'm horrified.
Absolutely horrified. For you both.
I've heard too many , often single mums, lose their children. Too many. And each time I hear this , it just gets worse .

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@FreyasDisciple @StoppingAbuse1 I am so sorry and horrified to read how much you and your son have suffered.
Absolutely no words for you both .

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@GrandCamouflage Thank you.
Do any independent studies even exist?
And is it possible to create a study , a long term study to involve adult adoptees ?
As often a breakdown occurs at the age of 16/17 /18 ? Which is not recorded.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

What about the rights of the child.
Taken.
Put with strangers.
Strangers then rehome poor boy to...more strangers?

@ScottishAAM
@GrandCamouflage stats on this ?

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

Forever is most definitely not forever.

Not in adoptions.

The rights of a child ? What about the long term damage to a child?

[Michael Lambert @GrandCamouflage]

@Dawnmillward2 Statistics on adoption 'breakdowns' (sic) are not routinely collected. Finding out has taken research into published statistics, or commissioned studies. UK Gov reckons 3% (on old data) whilst others put it 9-10%. Variation by age, location, etc. 'Forever' isn't always forever.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

Thanks Michael.

No stats are collected on breakdowns.
This seems rather odd.
The poor children are then back into the system, to be placed with more strangers.
Seems odd not to know where, when, why and the numbers of children who are invisible in the system?

[Michael Lambert @GrandCamouflage]

@Dawnmillward2 Statistics on adoption 'breakdowns' (sic) are not routinely collected. Finding out has taken research into published statistics, or commissioned studies. UK Gov reckons 3% (on old data) whilst others put it 9-10%. Variation by age, location, etc. 'Forever' isn't always forever.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@markrusselluk @ClaireLouPsych @childrensociety @barnardos @actnforchildren @NSPCC @ncbtweets And how many of these organisations are central to historical forced adoption?
As a few were and still are involved with placing

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

What happened to the boy who was abandoned?

[TaKenUK @TaKenUK1]

Has any consideration been given to the harm caused to these boys by these adopters?
We adopted two brothers, but 8 years later we gave one back – he began to exhibit odd sexual behaviour
https://t.co/uOubAlcvJA

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@FreyasDisciple @StoppingAbuse1 And your connection to adoption is ?

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

2024, not 1924 .

And nothing has changed.
Nor will

[CarCrashPrincess - AdopteeRightsUK @Sam_Fi82]

@AffectedAdoptee @Dawnmillward2 And here we thought 2024 would be different

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@cherylcorless41 Words fail me. Poor lad . I'm so sorry

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

Words fail me.
And once again a child is blamed, shamed and named.

Adopters must have missed the forever home tick box.

Poor child. Lost mum, then brother and had it in the media.

Should be adopters named . And have the other child removed as they are not fit.

[CarCrashPrincess - AdopteeRightsUK @Sam_Fi82]

Adoption hell, traumatised child.

https://t.co/OWFymE3jPR

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

The right to know

@ScottishAAM
#adoption
#family
#children
#parent

[Saturday O’Brien🪐 @saturdayobrien]

Yeah, it really is. A totally violation of our fundamental human right to know who we come from and are related to.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

And another one.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@tonyhawktruther Many people would love to have the ability to leave their homes each day, or each week, and can't.
Wrap your ableist , privileged head round that.
And think.
Not all have the privilege of mobility.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@BBCWomansHour @KatharineQ @JessCreighton1 @BBCSounds @ScottishAAM exist .

There is an increasing divide between those with a relationship with adoptive and birth family.
And those without.

And those who continue to have a relationship with adoptive family and birth family.
And those without

The privilege of back up.

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@sewistwrites Being a mum is the hardest thing to do.
Simple.
#parenting
#mum
#family
#bigfamily
#life
#loss
#teenagers
#Grandmother
#nanny
#childhood
#baby
#babies
#love

[Dawn millward @Dawnmillward2]

@ShesKindaALot @CranburyDanser @SearchAdoption @therealksparkle This one is on the level of yesterday's troll....