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Support National Adoption Awareness Week -

Friday, November 11, 2011

This week is National Adoption Awareness Week (NAAW) and I must send a huuuuuuge thank you to Karen James at Women in Focus for inviting me to fundraising breakfast for NAAW yesterday... Not just any breakfast, of course, but I had the chance to share a table and breakfast with Deborrah-Lee Furness.  Deborrah-lee is the founder and Patron of National Adoption Awareness Week (oh, and of course she's also the wife of Hugh Jackman!) and shared her views why adoption needs an overhaul. 

 

 Along with the 1400 other women at the Business Chicks Breakfast, Deborrah-lee engaged us in a journey of learning and loving - and her dream for the notion of adoption to be abolished altogether. Deb see's herself not as an adoption advocate, but an advocate for kids and she says she won't rest on this issue till all of the 148 million kids who are orphaned or abandoned around the world have a loving home and family to support them.

Australia is the second lowest adopting country in the world - which hardly makes sense when you consider how lucky we all are.

You can support NAAW 6-13 November by visiting the website and getting involved.

 

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Cat commented on 12-Nov-2011 10:50 PM
It is supposed to be National Adoption awareness Week yet the media have ignored the plight of approx 150,000 Mothers and children that have been forcably separated by Adoption. There is currently a Senate Inquiry into the history of adoption in Australia
and its shameful past. That ia what Australians need to be aware of NOT the wants of the select few that have the media spotlight upon then because of their money
Jen Dalitz commented on 13-Nov-2011 01:48 PM
You are so right, Cat, to point out the plight of those women whose children were stolen from them. It is an absolute historical atrocity and nothing can undo that wrong. I cannot imagine the heartache these parents have lived with - the mothers and the
fathers who would lovingly have raised their own children, had they just been allowed to. It's terrifying to think how recent this was in our history, too. It's a separate issue though, to the 148 million kids who find themselves orphaned and abandoned today,
throughout the world, and I'd like to think as a humanity we could do more for these kids now.
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