Friday, November 10, 2006
A 17-year-old has been taken into custody for the crime of being pregnant but not married. During a raid, the police officers of Queensland placed her in a prison holding cell.
She was taken to the Holy Cross Catholic girls’ home, to work without pay in the laundry until she gave birth. The expectation is that a married couple will adopt the baby.
When it happened to Lily Arthur in 1967, Australia was a very different place. Single mothers were at the postwar system of mercy that gives support for the illegal removal of unlawful children from their mothers. The practice claimed the babies of more than 150,000 women.
She doesn’t have the age of assenting, and she wasn’t a single mother-to-be. Steve, arrived at the hospital to propose and take his new family home, who is her defacto partner. Lily, knocked out and prohibited to see her baby, was tricked into signing an adoption paper.
Lily Arthur, now in her 50s, works to reunite members of the Aboriginal stolen generation. Her slow-burns with a terrible anger and a drive for justice.
The systems we placed in our society can’t be trusted because there is evil when it comes to the establishment forcing.
Ms Arthur took the law into her own hands nine years ago, contacting her son, Tim, despite a veto from the adoption agency.
Jeanette Lord gave birth to a boy when she was 15 in the year 1968. Jeanette nursed him for six days at a deliverance Army home and when it came time to leave, she and her mother were told contradictory stories: that each one had decided to put the baby up for adoption.
In psychological panic a study is undertaken for babies, when they are separated from their mothers in the first few days of life, this is all concealed beneath the surface of the conscious mind — adopted children didn’t know why they were feeling this dreadful restlessness and kind of a grief that could never be answered.
posted by cedar
@ 4:08 AM
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