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I am an adoptee from the forced adoption era. I am an adoptee activist that has spoken and written for many years on the lifelong impact of being adopted. I spearheaded the first ever historical protest on July 16th, 2025, along with the Movement for Adoption Apology and the UK Adult Adoptee Movement, to ask for a long overdue government apology. We had a huge turnout.

Manners were very important to my mother. I was raised at a time when children had to be polite - for what would people think if we weren’t? (It wouldn’t really cross my mind not to be until much later) - for children showing good manners was surely a sign of great parenting.  Rudeness reflects on the parents.

Over recent years there have been many shows on TV about adoptees and birth families finding one another. It makes heartwarming watchable TV

Writer and performer Zara Phillips, author of ‘Somebody’s Daughter,’ has turned her question into art

I was born and raised in London and adopted at two months old into an upper middle-class family, my father a judge, my mother a homemaker.