🥚I was already familiar with the black-market adoption ring in Tennessee run by Georgia Tann, but I didn’t realize she also trafficked babies from mental health institutions (𝐚𝐬𝐲𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐬). I suspect this happened worldwide across carceral institutions and remains hidden. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9I_...

🥚 Why did child-saving organizations in Canada and the United States shift from informal “placing out” practices to legally sanctioned adoption through provincial and state Adoption Acts?

🥚In the early 1900s, the privacy and informality of the newly established juvenile court system were instrumental in allowing the state to remove children and place them in rural labor environments, often under the guise of “saving” them. 1/5

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

Orders came Oct 23, 2025 for three of our appeals; by Nov 26, a stay was placed pending reconsideration. What—Parliament’s intentions weren’t clear? We wait again. Archives of Ontario (Re), 2025 CanLII 110355 (ON IPC), canlii.ca/t/kg667 @kpateonthehill.bsky.social @amreformatory.bsky.social

🥚"In 1618, almost 100 impoverished children from London - some as young as eight - arrived in Jamestown, Virginia to labour in the growing colony. It was the first example of transporting children to colonies that would continue into the twentieth century." podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

🥚In Ont, hidden behind the disclosure of adoption records—sealed under the guise CYFSA and the YCJA protections—are scores of mothers criminalized as “juvenile delinquents,” as well as wards of the Children’s Aid Society, many of whom were literally incarcerated in maternity homes. What did I miss?

Read the whole paper if you can bare it. "The free-born infant is worth more than the slave child, because we may reckon upon its mental and moral capabilities as well." archive.org/details/proc...

🥚Kelso in 1897, "We have in Ontario the same system that they have in Minnesota, except that we haven’t got the institution, but we are introducing the system there." It gets worse once I realized that Kelso's buddy was H. H. Hart, a leading figure in the United States child-saving movement.

I’m not very good at constructing a family tree, particularly because many of the records are in French. But if I did it correctly, this would be my ancestor, suggesting Acadian ancestry supported by both records and DNA. #AcadianExpulsion

🥚Am I the only adoptee who eagerly anticipates Ancestry updates? For many adoptees, genetic genealogy has become a critical supplement to incomplete or obscured records.

🥚Do your adoption records reflect the circumstances of your birth? At Mercer Reformatory, incarcerated mothers were transferred to Toronto General Hospital; elsewhere, to maternity homes. If carceral origins were obscured, what else was erased from the record?

🥚“They were informed that babies were shipped out of the State when only a few hours old and their mothers were hired out to nurse the infants of the wealthy.” Source: "Are Sold Before Birth," The Times-Democrat, Apr 19, 1913, 13.

🥚In a 1909 publication called Canadian bookman : a monthly review of contemporary literature devoted to the interests of Canadian book buyers, J. J. Kelso promotes a book, called "Your Boy ; His Nature and Nurture," Can anyone find this book for me by George A. Dickinson.

🥚1/4 Around the world, countries are confronting and exposing historical abuses and human trafficking carried out through adoption systems. Yet in Canada, there has been no national inquiry into adoption practices.

We deserve answers. Our parents deserve to know that this was not their failure, but a deliberate campaign to fracture our families. #sixtiesscoop 🥚 sookenewsmirror.com/2025/12/22/s...

🥚Men advancing “child-saving” ideology that shaped modern adoption. This drawing shows some attendees of the 24th Annual National Conference of Charities and Correction—held in Canada for the first time in 1897 at J. J. Kelso’s invitation. Recognize anyone? 1/2

🥚 Most AFCT survivors are misdiagnosed or never diagnosed properly with CPTSD and never understand themselves or get the proper treatment they need before these terrible stats come to be. www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5DFHV1...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would stop parental incarceration from being used as the sole reason to terminate parental rights. When punishment extends to children, the harm doesn’t end at sentencing. #adopteesky

Eugenic Ideas and Influences 𝗡𝗼𝘁 a Thing of the Past Historian and author C. Elizabeth Koester discusses the lasting ideas and influences behind eugenic theory and their importance today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Vb...

A new national study confirms what adoptees have said for decades: medical care isn’t neutral for us. #adopteesky

🥚If you’re an adoptee and your mother was a ward of a Children’s Aid Society, this won’t show in your records. Same if she was a "juvenile delinquent" or a ward of an Industrial/Training School—all of which means she was effectively incarcerated. Why did admissions to maternity homes decline?👇1/2

JFMR Statement Regarding a Significant Error in Testimony Documentary 🥚 jfmresearch.com/testimony/jf...

🥚The Manitoba Métis Federation is suing the provincial and federal governments after the Red River Métis were largely excluded from a class action settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🥚Riveting NPE journey that began with an at-home DNA test and unfolded into the discovery that his father was not his genetic father. @1:00:08 Wenzel states: “you’re a health care professional and you are knowingly and wilfully documenting false information” www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qv...

Testimony JFMR Statement: Testimony Documentary to be released in Irish and UK Cinemas More info here: jfmresearch.com/testimony/ 🥚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5_A...

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🥚The Privilege of Not Being Adopted: Survival, Trauma, and the Closed Circuit of Ego Unconsciousness “Why Non-Adoptees Are Ignoring Adoptee Trauma – And It’s Hurting Everyone” Source: medium.com/thoughtless-...

🥚Report covers “Acquiring children from adults in institutional care.” Canada tracked some adoptions from “unwed mothers,” but not those involving forcibly institutionalized parents (including juveniles) or unmarried parents more broadly—very different categories.

it’s been a while since I mentioned that i created a feed for posts by people who are adopted/trafficked/purchased out of their original families. please consider adding it. And if you would like to post to it, please let me know in a reply. 🥚

🥚Adoptees of incarcerated moms exist—but no one’s paying attention. No research. No tracking. Just silence.

🥚6-mth follow-up, breast exam. The dreaded question — your family history. “I’m adopted.” “Oh, sorry — yes, you are. I didn’t see that.” “What? It’s on my chart?” I exclaim. I check — literally a box ticked for Adopted. “New field,” she says. Digital progress: logged. Human noticing: still pending.

🥚How many were scooped from criminalized parents? "Sixties Scoop... calling for a national inquiry into the tens of thousands of Indigenous children who were scooped from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes as a result of government policies." www.aptnnews.ca/videos/60s-s...

🥚For all those adoptees punished in utero, whose carceral birth histories were hidden as they suffered innumerable harms and whose lives were cut short — may their truths be unearthed, their stories honored, and the silence end for those still unaware of their carceral beginnings.

4 girls — including my mother — escaped Mercer’s OTS wing but were caught and locked in the dungeon, where another desperate escape was attempted. It’s time to end these brutal, inhumane isolation conditions that disproportionately affect Indigenous, Black, and disabled people. #S205 #EndSeg

🥚Statistics from the Children of Unmarried Parents Act were used to support claims of mass adoption among unmarried mothers. So how is it that only 562 out of 4,023 consented to relinquishment — or 562 out of 1,992 non-cohabiting mothers? Race? Age? Institution? Incarcerated mothers? See alt txt

🥚Adoptees of Bluesky: Horrendous case of Ashley Smith! 👇For those who don’t know, she was an adoptee too.

What would Canada uncover if it examined carceral births—children born to incarcerated mothers, especially those labeled “juvenile delinquents”? These histories are still sealed under youth protection laws, leaving adoptees unaware of their institutional origins.

🥚Adoptee born of a mother at a Salvation Army home? They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories

🥚𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐒𝐤𝐲: We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated. Why? Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.

🥚Note to adoptees: Youth protection laws will prevent you from learning your mother’s circumstances—whether she was criminalized or not. As one account explains, "girls found wandering the city streets are picked up by police and convicted of vagrancy even though they committed no criminal offence.”

🥚Very few adoptees know we were born in prison. I suspect thousands share this history — but it’s hidden behind youth privacy laws worldwide. Upcoming event with Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of Prison Baby.

Today, on #MMIW Action Day, we honour the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People and demand justice and accountability. Too many lives have been lost while governments continue to resist implementing the National Inquiry’s Calls for Justice. 1/2

🥚Canada's "placing-out" system for indentured domestic and farm labour often secured the children of criminalized and incarcerated women and girls. Full story of the D’Andrea, case coming soon. Re D'Andrea, 1916 CanLII 479 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gw6np>, retrieved on 2025-09-27

🥚“Children are being falsely labelled with Russian citizenship and passports,” the Prime Minister told a UN event being held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “A decree to fast track the citizenship process for abducted children has been signed by Putin himself.”

Folks in the US pay attention 👇click on the post below to read the whole thread on how to contact your US Senators and your US Representative.

🥚This is a tragic story beginning in the 1930s. It’s unbelievable what happened to this family—the children, the foster care system, and the adoptions that followed. Stay tuned as the descendant uncovers truths long buried… and still hidden behind the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA).

🥚Adoption statistics declined rapidly in the early 1970s when “juvenile delinquents” at Training Schools were under investigation.

🥚Full article discusses unmarried mothers in maternity homes & ends with a focus on those in Mercer. One of them—my mother—was imprisoned there from Mar/53–Oct/54. Records state her firstborn was being adopted, yet the Ministry holds no record of the agency involved. #disappeared Title in ALT text