Apology to those abused a "step forward"

The world News 30th August 2009, states in the coverage of the abuse of children in the foster care system, that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is expected to deliver a formal apology by the end of the year.

At the end of the article, Ms Macklin said, "We have also begun a dialogue with mothers and children separated by past adoption practices which were inappropriate or unethical.
"The government recognises that the pain and suffering of these women also endures."

We would like to sent out congratulations to the generations of children who have suffered while in the care of the foster care system.

Good luck and good on you!

To My Birth Mother

MOTHER DEAR, PLEASE BE BRAVE
YOUR DAUGHTER'S TEARS YOU COULD SAVE
ALONE IN THE WORLD, & YET NOT
IS THIS TO BE MY LOT?

YOU, TO SEE, I CRAVE
MY ADOPTIVE PARENTS
IN THEIR GRAVE
DO LIE
THE WINGS OF HOPE
ARE THEY NOW A MERE SIGH?

MY OLDER BROTHER, ADOPTED TOO
WHERE IS HE,
LOST IN RED TAPE
DOES HE KNOW OF ME?

YOUR FEARS ARE MY FEARS
I DO UNDERSTAND
YOUR TEARS ARE MY TEARS
ALSO, A CHILD TO ME WAS BORN
BY ADOPTION TOO, FROM ME
HE WAS TORN.

A poem written by Lorraine

Melbourne Times Complaint.

A letter has been sent by ALASQLD to Melbourne Times with an objection of the use of the term "fallen women in their article titled, "Show highlights mother's sacrifices,"printed 29th July 2009.

This in no way describes single women who lost their babies to adoption.
The media has to be accountable for what they write in their paper.