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The people making a difference: the woman who created a community for fellow adult adoptees

The Guardian

Care leaver Kerry Littleford: 'I want to give opportunities to people who haven’t had them'

The Guardian

Former Cranbrook student says he was sexually abused at private Sydney boys' school

ABC News

The Pale Blue Eye

The Conversation

My mum has bipolar. My dad was a recovering alcoholic.' - Leeds City Council chief exec Tom Riordan on why we need to open up about mental illness

Yorkshire Evening Post

Being homeless felt inevitable': after years in care, I was living in a tent. Who was to blame?

The Guardian

Meera Mistry

Meera Mistry

Simone Biles becomes youngest living person to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Independent

Angelina Jolie's casting game with Cambodian orphans sparks outrage

Harriet Alexander

Sister Kate's site to become home to Perth's first Aboriginal aged care facility

ABC News

The love that helped me beat hell of foster care

Paul Barber (actor)

When Lucy O'Flaherty took up shoemaking she didn't know it was part of her heritage

Fiona Blackwood

Torn between her African and English mums: Lola (Jaye) had an idyllic childhood - until the day social workers knocked at the door

Amanda Cable

FamilyConnect

Family

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson review – an elegant retelling of Shakespeare

Sarah Crown

The nature boy who could

Sydney Morning Herald

America's Riches School Serves Low-Income Kids.

Propublica

Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

ABC News (USA)

Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption

The Guardian Long Read

The Zombies Singer Colin Blunstone Learned His Aunt Was His Mom. She Bared Her Soul to Him Right Before Dying

Jeremy Helligar

Case Shined First Light on Abuse of Children

The New York Times

‘This book kept me alive’: Jenni Fagan on writing a memoir of her childhood in care

The Guardian

Care Experienced student behind new John Lewis Partnership brand: Made with Care

John Lewis

Care leavers tell stories in 'pain into power' art

BBC News (Manchester, UK)

Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home survivors mark 100 years as push continues for museum

ABC News

Alma's Not Normal review – this bleak, brilliant comedy is far from ordinary

Lucy Mangan

Meet Karen Menzies, Australia's first Indigenous Matilda

Karen Menzies

Orphans Making It in the World

Noel Murray

Khelsi Price

Khelsi Price

Katherine Rundell's top 10 orphans

Katherine Rundell

Children in need of ‘rescuing’: challenging the myths at the heart of the global adoption industry

The Conversation

Peter Mullan’s Orphans find a new ‘home’

Kenny Smith

The Vatican's Children

60 Minutes

Natalia Grace's sad and bizarre adoption story gets the TV treatment

ABC News (Australia)

Mother and Baby Homes - Sorting the 'Sinful from the Righteous'

Katherine Waugh

Government expresses 'regret', will compensate for disappeared Yemenite children

The Times of Israel

The care leaver who made a number one album

BBC News

Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey

Restless

Every one of us has a different story': a historic portrait of care system success

The Guardian

Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child

BBC News

Living in Adoption's Emotional Aftermath

The New Yorker

Intelligent women are dangerous, no?’ Samantha Morton on sexism, success and survival

The Guardian

Kids Were Marched Everywhere. This was a Concentration Camp'

RolingStone

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday's Last Live Performance

Literary Hub (Billie Holliday)

Statues of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter erected at historical Aboriginal meeting place

ABC News (Australia)

How Syria's dictatorship used a global child welfare charity to 'disappear' children

Haya Al Badarneh & Jess Kelly

I'll never know where I'm from': plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh's Birangona women

Thaslima Begum, Rosie Swash

The Orphanage review – terrific tale of an Afghan teen in trouble

Peter Bradshaw

After I was taken off my birth parents, my foster carers became the family I needed

Kirsty Capes

Almost 70 mass unmarked child graves discovered by ITV News investigation into mother and baby homes

Sarah Corker

Adoption support charity shreds 'irreplaceable' files to save space

BBC

Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prize

The Guardian

Peter Norris grew up on the run with his bank-robber dad. He refuses to be defined by his past

ABC News (Australia)

Jane Hansen Prize

Frank Golding

Care Leavers Facing ‘Vile’ Assessments in Postcode Lottery when Becoming Mothers

Sophia Alexandra Hall

Alone in the world | The Spectator

Philip Hensher

I was taken into care at two years old – what really happened?

Kerry Hudson

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo

The Guardian

ABC's Patricia Karvelas on her experience of Parliament's toxic 'sexist' culture and how a childhood tragedy shaped her.

Natasha Johnson

"Malcolm Still Speaks." Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X.

Literary Hub (Malcolm X)

An evening with your life your story

Amanda Knowles

The Wild Wist

The Monthly

Sweden urged to ban international adoption after damning inquiry findings

The Guardian

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's last novel

The Conversation (Marquez)

Tasmania's connection to author Joseph Conrad remembered on anniversary of his death

Carol Raabus

The Real Lord of the Flies

The Guardian

Border officers saw a couple behaving oddly with a baby - and uncovered a mystery

BBC

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test - now we're fighting to get them back

BBC News

Biden issues 'long overdue' apology for federal Indigenous boarding schools

PBS NewsHour

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century:

Vanity Fair

BBC Teach - History KS3 / GCSE: Small Axe - Alex Wheatle and the Brixton Uprising

Alex Wheatle

The One Percent compilation

Inspired Youth

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: class prejudices, the convict stain and a corpse-bride

The Conversation

Who is Ronnie Archer Morgan?

Homes & Antiques

Simone Biles' scathing testimony was a warning about power and complicity

MSNBC

I was a ward of the state. The horrors of the Parramatta Girls' Home were legendary

The Conversation (Parramatta)

How Superman Became a Christ-Like Figure in American Culture

Literary Hub

How Horseback Riding Helped Barbara Stanwyck Rise Above Hollywood Misogyny

Literary Hub

How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

Literary Hub

Orphans in Kids' Movies: Let's Stop Going There

Jeff Alexander

Greece Simplifies Citizenship Restoration

Schengen News

Christian Bale unveils plans to build 12 foster homes in California

Christian Bale

Ward of the State; The Gap in Ella Fitzgerald's Life

Nina Bernstein

The West African children brought up by white foster families in the English countryside

Symeon Brown

Like Jane Eyre, I’ve been seen as unconventional and abnormal. I’m autistic – is she too?

The Conversation

‘I lived in a state of terror’: Patricia Cornwell on childhood trauma, her new novel and the search for Bigfoot

The Guardian - Patricia Cornwell

Indian orphans weave award-winning movie magic

Sujoy Dhar

Hutchinson Heinemann signs Fagan's 'extraordinary' memoir in two-book deal

Jenni Fagan

Barrister and Chair of Independent Enquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Ivor Frank

Denmark says sorry to children of failed experiment

Inuit Greenlander

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

Simon Hattenstone

Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children

The Guardian

Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

Literary Hub

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

The Guardian

‘Next time bring my daughter’: Barbara Demick reunited a Chinese family with the stolen ‘missing twin’ adopted in the US

The Conversation

Remembering the original Superman

Aljazeera

Children evacuated during Vietnam War's Operation Babylift are on a quest to find their families

ABC News (Australia)

Seoul Searching

ABC News

Smell like a woman, not a rose’: Chanel No. 5 100 years on, an iconic fragrance born from an orphanage

Gary Mortimer

Foster families who ignore race are participating in a pernicious form of racism

Derek Owusu

Chilean mother reunites with her twin daughters for the first time in 45 years

CNN

‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care

The Guardian

Ellie Simmonds on finding her birth mother: ‘During this journey I cried so much’ by Emine Saner

Ellie Simmonds

‘Designed to tear families apart’: a shocking film exposes abuse and infanticide

The Guardian

Baby stolen during Argentina's military rule found after 48 years

BBC

Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby

Lucy Wallis

Prince Philip: A turbulent childhood stalked by exile, mental illness and death

Prince Philip

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