The Australians who learned their adoptions were based on a lie
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/inter-country-adoptees-push-broader-federal-government-inquiry/106447580?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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There is a doc called Twinsters about a set of identical twins who stumble upon each other online. They were stolen from Korea as infants and adopted out to families in different countries.
Very interesting film about nature vs nurture and the child trafficking that occurred in Asia under the guise of adoption.
Maybe the ABC could look at real stolen generation in Australia. The children of unmarried taken through forced adoption by government and Catholic Church.
My adopted sister was originally handed over to the church by her biological parents to care for while the family sorted themselves out financially. When her biological parents came back for her some months later the church already adopted her out to some rich Westerners (my parents). They’d even changed her name to make reconnection difficult.
After 40 years of the typical abandonment issues, she found out the real story after finally tracking down her biological family who’d never given up trying to find her.
For all those adoptees out there working on the assumption that your biological parents don’t love you, maybe give them the benefit of the doubt.
The past tenses of learn in English/Australian is Learnt, learned is an abomination of the English language learned should only be use as ie: the learned professor said no.
Down vote me all you want. Its not as if I’m wrong.
So many terribly sad stories. Once you scratch the surface of the adoption industry, the shine comes off almost immediately. I hope the people in this story and their fellow international adoptees can find healing and wholeness, with full support from the Australian government.
These sorts of cases and many other issues with the system has cause adoption in Australia to essentially be non existent these days.