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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.

BBC news interview with Duncan Kennedy about the forced adoption, highlighting "Somebody's Daughter"

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.

As she celebrates the release of her extraordinary autobiographical film Somebody’s Daughter, Zara Phillips offers up some tough love truths

Jim Masters TV | November 10, 2024 Zara Phillips is a singer and songwriter, actor, author, and activist. As an adoptee herself, much of her work is centered around the adoption world and is focused on improving understanding the lifelong impact of adoption. She is a mother of three and is married to musician Richard Thompson. She divides her time between London and New Jersey. Zara joins host Jim Masters for a very inspiring, heartfelf conversation and interview on this epi

As she celebrates the release of her extraordinary autobiographical film Somebody’s Daughter, Zara Phillips offers up some tough love truths that fly in the face of the often cheery, sanitized way adopted children (and other beings) are depicted in Disney films and other media.

All I wanted was a father’s love: Growing up, Zara Phillips’s life was dominated by her two fathers: the adoptive one who never spoke to her