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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296</id><updated>2024-11-01T11:36:02.475+00:00</updated><category term="justice"/><category term="child care"/><category term="abuse"/><category term="adoption"/><category term="SS failings"/><category term="videos"/><category term="Amusing"/><category term="Ben Needham"/><category term="Review"/><category term="non adoption"/><category term="trafficking"/><title type='text'>adapting my identity</title><subtitle type='html'>Forced adoptions and illegal adoptions equal hard cash. Legitimised under the cloak and dagger of closed family courts. The silence needs to be broken before more lives are shattered</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-6724775779052685035</id><published>2009-04-06T14:59:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T15:15:04.246+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="non adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Review"/><title type='text'>Aveeno Review</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5CMotXjevV6i7YKR3Kk1_chZmcsHnJ5ujunfgc5VWULypJ8cTgsmCKeFxit6XjOKTgFsgEtLVijRPIrsAp8vsZuKhvmnJt-vZ5hyphenhyphenWPmFRkPg7bVkm8MlBM58utmjA3Wj67MH1cYIG8o/s1600-h/aveeno&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 148px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5CMotXjevV6i7YKR3Kk1_chZmcsHnJ5ujunfgc5VWULypJ8cTgsmCKeFxit6XjOKTgFsgEtLVijRPIrsAp8vsZuKhvmnJt-vZ5hyphenhyphenWPmFRkPg7bVkm8MlBM58utmjA3Wj67MH1cYIG8o/s400/aveeno&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321581610596950162&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fuelmyblog.com/&quot;&gt;FuelMyBlog&lt;/a&gt; offered me the chance to try my hand at writing a review I jumped at the chance.  I had no idea what I was expected to review but hey, I&#39;ll try anything once!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few days later the parcel popped through my door. I loved FuelMyBlog before but now I REALLY love &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fuelmyblog.com/&quot;&gt;FuelMyBlog!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what did they send me? Something nice of course!  Daily Moisturising Lotion, Aveeno Cream and bath Powder. All enriched with natural colloidal oatmeal from the Aveeno body care range.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I dive in and tell you all about my Aveeno two week experience, let me tell you a bit about the actual product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With natural colloidal oatmeal and rich emollients, Aveeno actively helps soothe and protect dry sensitive skin. It  is also clinically proven to moisturize for a full 24 hours. &lt;br /&gt;Sounds great!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The actual packaging has a &#39;natural&#39; look and feel about it.  It didn&#39;t quite drum up thoughts of natural, healthy ingredients though. More like &#39;Eco friendly&#39;  compost. Actually, I think that says more about me than the product!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, here is what I found. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On day one I excitedly and stupidly squeezed lashings of Daily Moisturising Lotion into my hands. Two smothered arms and two smothered legs later, I was a sticky mess! Running out of skin I took to wiping my hands on anything and every one!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good news was it had absolutely no smell to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 hours after applying the lotion I was still sticky  and had gained fluffy arms and legs. Every fibre possible was stuck to me.  All I wanted was a hot shower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day 2 came... and went . Day 3 came... And went.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day 4 and I decided to give it another go. I started with the lotion. This time I used a small amount.  It absorbed into my skin fine leaving my legs reasonably soft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used the Aveeno Cream on my arms and hands. I have very dry bumpy skin on my arms and cracked elbows. Not something I usually tell the world. My skin felt slightly softer but there was something much better than that. My arms didn&#39;t itch all day. I am so used to having itchy arms that I had forgot how it felt not to itch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stuck to this morning routine for 13 days. The itching relief had been instant. Softer, smoother more hydrated arms and legs didn&#39;t seem to be happening. Within a couple of hours of applying the cream and lotion my skin looked dry again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m not sure what day it was. I haven&#39;t quite grasped the art of reviewing. Possibly day 9, I went to do my legs and whoa! They looked great. OK, maybe not great but i noticed a change in them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall my skin has softened and is feeling smoother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried the Aveeno bath Powder last night. What can I say. Luxury. My skin feels great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For me personally, the relief I have got from my itchy arms has been brilliant. If my skin had stayed looking and feeling like leather I wouldn&#39;t have cared.  I have tried so many different lotions over the years and nothing has come close to Aveeno. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aveeno is sold at Boots stores throughout the UK and most major chemists £4.99 - £6.99.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aveeno.com/&quot;&gt;Visit Aveeno.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/6724775779052685035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=6724775779052685035' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/6724775779052685035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/6724775779052685035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2009/04/aveeno-review.html' title='Aveeno Review'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5CMotXjevV6i7YKR3Kk1_chZmcsHnJ5ujunfgc5VWULypJ8cTgsmCKeFxit6XjOKTgFsgEtLVijRPIrsAp8vsZuKhvmnJt-vZ5hyphenhyphenWPmFRkPg7bVkm8MlBM58utmjA3Wj67MH1cYIG8o/s72-c/aveeno" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-8124730971120492821</id><published>2008-10-22T19:14:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T19:14:10.531+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Great British Shame</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&#39;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#39;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&#39;350&#39; width=&#39;425&#39;&gt;&lt;param value=&#39;http://youtube.com/v/-cgtE4zfu4A&#39; name=&#39;movie&#39;/&gt;&lt;embed height=&#39;350&#39; width=&#39;425&#39; type=&#39;application/x-shockwave-flash&#39; src=&#39;http://youtube.com/v/-cgtE4zfu4A&#39;/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/8124730971120492821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=8124730971120492821' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/8124730971120492821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/8124730971120492821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/10/great-british-shame.html' title='Great British Shame'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-7936846556907230714</id><published>2008-07-22T02:39:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T02:42:48.704+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><title type='text'>Baby choked to death</title><content type='html'>The British tourist arrested in Crete for allegedly choking her baby to death moments after giving birth has been named.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leah Andrews is said to have gone into labour in her hotel room after a night out drinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When her older sister and her friend arrived back at the room they were sharing at about 5am yesterday, they reportedly found her trying to clean up the blood. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 20-year-old was using a sheet with the baby&#39;s body inside as a makeshift mop to wipe down the floor and furniture, a police source said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#39;The sister and friend saw a sheet with something inside it but they did not open it. They called the police.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#39;The police came with an ambulance. They opened the sheet and they found the baby,&#39; the source added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coroner Manolis Mihalodimitrakis said: &#39;When the baby was born, it was alive and breathing. After that, someone killed it violently.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andrews is under police guard in hospital in the Greek island capital of Heraklion, where she is being treated for heavy blood loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She has been told she will be charged with killing her newborn child when her condition improves sufficiently, according to British diplomats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police sources said the woman kept her pregnancy a secret from her friends despite expecting a baby within weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Londoner is said to have two other children who were not on holiday with her. A Foreign Office spokesman said: &#39;We can confirm a British national has been detained and will be charged with the murder of her baby in Malia, Crete. We are providing consular assistance.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Greek law, infanticide is punishable by up to 20 years in jail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metro.co.uk/news/ &quot;&gt;http://www.metro.co.uk/news/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/7936846556907230714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=7936846556907230714' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7936846556907230714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7936846556907230714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/baby-choked-to-death.html' title='Baby choked to death'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-1988515825082970285</id><published>2008-07-20T15:34:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T15:38:36.390+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>Safeguarding Children report</title><content type='html'>The third Safeguarding Children report from the joint chief inspectors was published on 8 July 2008. The report is published every three years under the direction of the eight agencies inspecting prisons, care homes and other institutions involved in child protection. It seeks to assess&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    * the effectiveness of the overall safeguarding systems and frameworks that are in place&lt;br /&gt;    * the wider safeguarding role of public services&lt;br /&gt;    * the targeted activity carried out to safeguard vulnerable groups of children. This includes updated evidence on the groups considered in the previous report, including asylum-seeking children, children in secure settings, looked after children and children treated by health services&lt;br /&gt;    * the identification of and response to child protection concerns by relevant agencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This report found that improvements have been made across a range of objectives but there are still areas of concern. For example, wIth regards to looked after children, they found that 1 in 10 children’s homes and fostering services are not adequately keeping children in their care safe.  The inspectors also found that the choice of placement remains limited for most children and some children feel it is hard to influence decisions that involve them. With regard to secure accommodation, it found that the use of restraint was not being recorded or assessed properly and the inspectors made several recommendations for how these issues could be addressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The full report can be down loaded &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.safeguardingchildren.org.uk/Safeguarding-Children/2008-report&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/1988515825082970285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=1988515825082970285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/1988515825082970285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/1988515825082970285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/safeguarding-children-report.html' title='Safeguarding Children report'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-7380100735185425214</id><published>2008-07-20T15:22:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T15:32:04.198+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>Britain faces an investigation by Europe</title><content type='html'>Europe to begin investigation of secrecy in family courts. This is brilliant news.  Hopefully this will be the start of our children and families finally seeing protection placed exactly where it is needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Britain faces an investigation by Europe into secrecy in family courts, amid growing political pressure to overhaul the system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Council of Europe has stepped in after allegations that gagging laws designed to protect the rights of children are allowing miscarriages of justice and children to be removed unnecessarily from their parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Times has been running a series of articles this week about the consequences of the system that keeps reporters and the public out of many family court hearings and obstructs people from seeing evidence against them or obtaining copies of judgments. Opponents of the system say that judges can be too ready to side with social workers and experts who want a child removed but whose evidence is rarely made public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Family courts in England and Wales hear 400,000 cases a year, mostly divorces and child custody cases. In about 20,000 cases a year, however, local councils apply to remove children from parents on the ground that parents are abusive or neglectful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The council&#39;s investigation was initiated by Paul Rowen, the Liberal Democrat MP who is one of Britain&#39;s representatives, and will begin in September. It could involve hearings by a committee that will take evidence and be able to visit courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will come at a critical time for campaigners who are fighting to open up the system. The Government has promised to respond to a long-delayed consultation after the summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three years ago the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee said that greater transparency was required and restrictions on the discussion of their cases by parents should be removed entirely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moves to open the courts up were quashed by Lord Falconer of Thoroton in one of his final acts as Lord Chancellor in June 2007. He stated that a survey of 200 children had shown that many would be anxious about the presence of the press in the family courts. You can read the full article &lt;a href=&quot;http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4305392.ece&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/7380100735185425214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=7380100735185425214' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7380100735185425214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7380100735185425214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/britain-faces-investigation-by-europe.html' title='Britain faces an investigation by Europe'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-755385658060282164</id><published>2008-07-20T14:27:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T14:33:53.566+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>Soham recommendations not implemented</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/Sohamchapmanandwells.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/Sohamchapmanandwells.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight:bold;&quot;&gt;The murder of ten year olds Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in August 2002 prompted one of the largest  missing person investigations in British history.&lt;/span&gt; Few will forget the image of two best friends wearing matching Manchester United shirts or the thirteen days spent hoping upon hope that these girls would turn up safe and well. With the news that the bodies of Jessica and Holly had been found came the how and why.&lt;br /&gt;The answers shocked the country. An inquiry later revealed that there were many lessons to be learnt from the Soham murders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;School caretaker Ian Huntley, 31, received two life terms for the murder of Jessica and Holly. After sentencing it emerged&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;# Nine allegations of rape, indecent assault on an 11-year-old girl and sex with underage girls while Huntley was living in Grimsby were not shared between Humberside and Cambridge forces&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;# No record of Huntley&#39;s past had been retained by Humberside Police, even though he was charged in one of the rape cases before it was later dropped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# Huntley had confessed to having sex with one underage girl in 1995 but was not charged or cautioned because she did not want to prosecute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He could have been cautioned though. And if he had, his name would have been on the national database for at least five years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# Huntley&#39;s name was, however, logged on Humberside Police&#39;s own local computer system. In 1999 PC Michael Harding wrote a file on him, saying he was clearly a &quot;serial sex attacker&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;But the report was deleted during a review of the database a few months before Huntley applied for the job at Soham Village College.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# Chief Constable David Westwood conceded their intelligence system had &quot;failed almost completely&quot; and admitted he had been wrong to blame the Data Protection Act for the vetting process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# The force also failed to update Police National Computer (PNC) records to include Huntley&#39;s alias surname of Nixon, so the response to any checks would have been &quot;no trace&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They had twice been told Huntley and Nixon were the same person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# Staff responsible for vetting job applicants such as Huntley were not able to access a database with information about sex offences and children.&lt;br /&gt;Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Police Tom Lloyd said his officers had not vetted Ian Huntley properly and its systems contained &quot;weaknesses&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two specific human errors were also made during the vetting process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One staff member entered Huntley&#39;s date of birth incorrectly into the Child Access database, while another only looked on the national database under Huntley&#39;s alias surname Nixon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Head teacher of Soham Village College Howard Gilbert said he did not follow up any of the five references Huntley provided at his interview, two of which were undated and three of which were almost 18 months old.&lt;br /&gt;The director of a firm doing background checks for the Local Education Authority said she ticked the police check forms to say she had verified Huntley&#39;s personal details, when she had not done so.&lt;br /&gt;# A senior social worker failed to link three underage sex allegations made against Huntley within one month in 1996.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phil Watters investigated each case, and also failed to connect them with an earlier incident in which Huntley admitted sleeping with a 15-year-old girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# Mr Watters also admitted a letter from a local deputy head teacher raising concerns about Huntley had not been passed on to police.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# Deputy director of the council&#39;s child care department Martin Eaden said he thought the social services&#39; handling of one specific allegation of underage sex was &quot;totally inadequate in every sense&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The case was closed without the girl having been seen, her whereabouts established or her welfare assured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in August 2002, a report by Sir Michael Bichard made 31 recommendations to the police, Home Office, Courts Service and other bodies. The proposals were part of a package of measures to make greater use of technology to monitor known dangerous people. Six years later and nine of the 31 safety measures needed to protect our most vulnerable have still not been implemented. A package was put together to make a solid structure. Together they form a connection but it only takes one missing link for a structure to collapse.&lt;br /&gt;Time may have passed but the memory of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells hasn&#39;t. Didn&#39;t their death mean anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/755385658060282164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=755385658060282164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/755385658060282164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/755385658060282164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/soham-recommendations-not-implemented.html' title='Soham recommendations not implemented'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-3050084034948899404</id><published>2008-07-12T07:16:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-12T07:19:36.834+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="trafficking"/><title type='text'>Slave trade Britian</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;Is this what we in the UK regard as justice. 14 years old and smuggled into a strange country. No schooling. No friends. Just a life of slavery. Forced to wear a T-shirt with the words “My other name is bitch.” emblazoned across it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unnamed girl suffered till she was driven to the brink of suicide. Now 17 years old, I wonder how she and her loved ones feel after hearing yesterdays verdict. Samuel Quainoo was jailed for 18 months while wife Ernestina had her one-year sentence suspended because she has young children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quainoo an accountant and Ernestina a teacher pretended the girl was their daughter to get  a visa but insisted the  girl was 18 and brought from Ghana with the blessing of her mum. Both pleaded guilty to trafficking. Judge Jonathan Lowen told London’s Isleworth Crown Court the defendants were lying and the girl’s 2004 entry “was carefully planned”.  &lt;blockquote&gt;You exploited the illegality of her life here. You abused the trust she placed in you.&lt;br /&gt;This was utter exploitation. She was entirely subservient to your will.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their guilt was clear so I have to ask, the question, WHY wasn&#39;t this child&#39;s suffering reflected in the sentences. I am sure if a 14year old British child was smuggled out of the country and abused and exploited for two years the offenders would get far more than a suspended sentence or 18months in jail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trafficking is a huge problem and the UK needs to start seeing it for what it is. It is the abuse and exploitation of children and the most vulnerable and should be punished as such. Denying we have a problem and treating trafficking as an illegal entry problem is just going to create more victims and bigger profits. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1415414.ece&quot;&gt;News article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/3050084034948899404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=3050084034948899404' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/3050084034948899404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/3050084034948899404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/slave-trade-britian.html' title='Slave trade Britian'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-6579446335043373577</id><published>2008-07-11T20:14:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T20:16:46.385+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>Fathers 4 Justice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.birminghammail.net/news/national-news/2008/07/09/fathers-in-protest-at-harman-home-97319-21310410/&quot;&gt;Fathers in protest at Harman home - Birmingham Mail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Two Fathers 4 Justice protesters dressed as Spider-Man and Batman have scaled the roof of deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman&#39;s home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two men said they will not come down until the Government &quot;takes them seriously&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The men said their names were Nigel Ace, 40, who was dressed as Spider-Man, and Tony Ashby, 42, in the Batman costume. They said they had enough food supplies to last for a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Ace, who described himself as a sales manager from Bristol, said the stunt was provoked by Ms Harman&#39;s recent pledge to ensure equality in the workforce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said: &quot;What about dads? We haven&#39;t got equality. The Government is ignoring us and has a feminist agenda. We want Harriet Harman to come back here and engage in a debate with us and, if not, then Gordon Brown should come. I am trained in survival, so I don&#39;t care how long we are up here.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Ashby, who described himself as a painter and decorator from Leicester, said he had not seen his children for seven years.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said: &quot;We have been up here since 6am and we are in for the long haul. We don&#39;t want to cause trouble, we just want to get our message across.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The protest comes as Ms Harman is due to stand in for Gordon Brown in Prime Minister&#39;s Questions in the Commons while he attends the G8 summit in Japan. She left her home in Herne Hill, south London, at 7.45am and ignored the protesters, who draped a flag on her wall saying &quot;Stop the war on dads&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The men said they had not been involved in any previous stunts and drew straws to decide who would stage the protest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The demonstration is the second time in little over a month that Fathers 4 Justice has staged a protest at Ms Harman&#39;s home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/6579446335043373577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=6579446335043373577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/6579446335043373577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/6579446335043373577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/fathers-4-justice.html' title='Fathers 4 Justice'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-3065926803140219956</id><published>2008-07-11T19:25:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T19:49:49.198+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><title type='text'>Kamran Rose 15 months</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/kamranrose.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/kamranrose.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kamran Rose 15 months died of appalling injuries on May 10th 2007. Nicholas Kirnon, who had been looking after him battered the toddler to death in an “explosive rage”. Kirnon from Birmingham was jailed today for life with a recommendation he serve a minimum of 17 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Justice Butterfield, said: “This is a tragic case. No sentence of mine can reflect the value of the life of little Kamran&quot;. Det Insp David Wallbank later referred to the injuries suffered by the little boy and said: “I was present at the hospital and the post-mortem and I have never seen anything before coming close to it. “This was someone trusted to look after him, that is the terrible thing about it.” Of Kirnon, he said: “That sums it up. That is what he was like at the hospital, a man with an explosive and violent temper that he was prepared to use on a 15-month-old toddler.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/07/11/life-jail-for-boy-s-killer-97319-21324581/&quot;&gt;Birmingham Evening Mail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/3065926803140219956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=3065926803140219956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/3065926803140219956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/3065926803140219956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/kamran-rose-15-months.html' title='Kamran Rose 15 months'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-1704699783165448754</id><published>2008-07-11T19:05:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T19:11:39.929+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>Khyra Ishaq</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/_44678326_khyra226.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/_44678326_khyra226.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mother and stepfather of a seven-year-old girl who allegedly starved to death have been charged with five counts of cruelty to children. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khyra Ishaq was found dead at her family home in Birmingham where she lived with her five siblings. Angela Gordon, 33, and Junaid Abuhamza, 29, of Handsworth, were already charged with &quot;causing or allowing&quot; her death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/1704699783165448754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=1704699783165448754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/1704699783165448754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/1704699783165448754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/khyra-ishaq.html' title='Khyra Ishaq'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-7304567484317356380</id><published>2008-07-05T16:50:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-05T17:00:07.977+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>Adoption IS Wrong</title><content type='html'>If any one wants to argue the case for how wonderful adoption is I beg you to read Adoption Undone by Karen Carr. I read this story through a haze of tears and choked with anger. When Karen and Jon Carr adopted four-year-old Lucy as a sister for their six-year-old birth daughter Hannah, they though they&#39;d completed their happy family. But the adoption was fraught with difficulty, and the turmoil that followed brought the whole family to breaking point, forcing Karen and Jon to do the unthinkable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once we&#39;d made the decision, we were very excited. We would have a new family, and a sister for Hannah. We&#39;d always wanted another child, a playmate, but by the time we got round to doing anything about it Hannah was six, which we felt was too big an age gap. By adopting, we&#39;d be able to choose a girl just a couple of years younger to be her sister. We thought that, with love, everything would fall into place. We&#39;d just returned from holiday in 1999 when Valerie, the social worker who&#39;d assessed us for adoption, contacted us to say that a child had been identified who matched our hopes: a little girl called Lucy, aged four. Within days, Lucy&#39;s social workers were sitting in our living room, drinking tea and discussing her history. We were shown a photo of her aged two, and saw a video of her around the same age. They said she was a bright child and that our situation was ideal because our family replicated her two previous homes, with Lucy being the younger of two sisters. (Lucy had been living with a foster sister, Shahida, who was two years older than her, and she also had an older birth sister, Jade.) We had no reason to doubt this logic. From then on, the introductions had to be done in haste, as her foster carer, Tracy, was being admitted to hospital and the social workers didn&#39;t want Lucy going to a new carer for just a few weeks. Instead of the usual fortnight introductory period for adoptions, we were given two days in which to meet and bond with Lucy. Tracy had said that Lucy wouldn&#39;t be particularly bothered by the move; she&#39;d walk away without a backward glance. It amazes me now that this wasn&#39;t considered a problem. So we met Lucy on the Friday, took her for a picnic on Saturday and on Sunday she came to stay for good. That was it! We didn&#39;t know any of her routines, likes or dislikes. It was a huge disruption for her with very little preparation: she&#39;d only been told two days before that a &#39;new mummy and daddy&#39; had been found for her.&lt;br /&gt;Both Jon and I went into the adoption assuming it would work. We both wanted it 100 per cent. And at the start, Lucy and Hannah seemed to build up a good relationship and would play outdoors together. Things were slightly difficult for Hannah, though, because Lucy felt allegiances to her sister Jade, with whom she still had face-to-face contact, and Hannah felt she was being shut out. Lucy was supposed to meet Jade about five times a year, but if she mentioned she was missing her we&#39;d arrange it – she was her sister, after all.&lt;br /&gt;&#39;When I told Lucy that she had to move out, she just wanted to know when and counted the days on her fingers, &quot;Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday&quot;&#39;&lt;br /&gt;From the start, Lucy was a very demanding child and craved my attention, always wanting to sit on my knee. She was also loud. Day in, day out, it was draining. But what became apparent quite early on was that Lucy and Jon weren&#39;t bonding. Their relationship was distant. If we went for a walk, Lucy would always hold my hand, determined to be next to me. Hannah felt sorry for her dad because he was being left out, so she&#39;d take his hand and they&#39;d walk ahead. I&#39;d tell him that he shouldn&#39;t let this happen as it just encouraged Lucy&#39;s clinginess.&lt;br /&gt;It got to the stage where every night we were arguing about Lucy&#39;s behaviour and his reaction to it. After she&#39;d been with us about six months, I rang the social worker for advice about the distance between Jon and Lucy. She said, &#39;Well, she can&#39;t stay there if she&#39;s not bonding with one of the parents.&#39; But I was determined to make things work so I reassured her and said, &#39;Oh, it&#39;s OK. I&#39;ll make sure she&#39;s fine.&#39; So it was left at that.&lt;br /&gt;Lucy had some funny habits. She insisted on wearing short socks all the time, and would put dozens of slides and pony tails in her hair in the morning. It was a constant battle to get her to look more acceptable for school. One day I was trying to negotiate with her, and Jon said, &#39;You look stupid, Lucy! Take them out!&#39; That evening, I blew up at him, saying that he made things worse by talking like that. He&#39;d sometimes call her a &#39;nuisance&#39;. He was never cruel to her, but offhand and sharper than with Hannah.&lt;br /&gt;Of course, I didn&#39;t help matters by not disciplining Lucy enough. Even when it was her own fault that she fell out with Hannah, Lucy was the one who would end up on my knee. I just felt sorry for her. Jon and I spent hours discussing her, but the arguments were getting worse so, at the end of 1999, we sought support from a charity called After Adoption.&lt;br /&gt;They recommended &#39;re-nurturing&#39; to build an attachment. This meant simulating experiences that occur naturally in birth parent and infant relationships. For example, tightly wrapping Lucy in a shawl and rocking her while keeping eye contact. And giving her a piece of soft cloth to keep in her pocket, which she could touch at any time and know we were thinking of her. It helped up to a point, but Jon felt foolish doing some of the exercises, and didn&#39;t feel he should have to work so hard to have a relationship with his daughter.&lt;br /&gt;He really did try. Occasionally he&#39;d spend time playing on the computer with her, and when she was seven he took her on a caravan trip because our After Adoption worker suggested they might both benefit from lengthy quality time together. During this break, Lucy mentioned that she&#39;d noticed he spoke to Hannah differently, and Jon discussed her behaviour with her. When they returned they were both positive and he felt emotionally closer to her. But after a while things just went back to how they were before.&lt;br /&gt;By now, her relationship with Hannah had worsened. There were a couple of incidents at school where Lucy had been incredibly disloyal to Hannah – befriending a girl who&#39;d been mean to her and, along with some other girls, pushing her into the mud while she was wearing her new coat. Although we didn&#39;t realise it, Hannah&#39;s self-esteem was rapidly declining and she was depressed. She wouldn&#39;t play with friends and stayed in her bedroom for hours. She would call herself ugly and fat, and we noticed she wasn&#39;t eating much.&lt;br /&gt;I always blamed Jon, not Lucy, for the lack of a bond and now I realise that was unfair. Lucy probably should have had therapy of some sort before coming to us. In hindsight, I think that her abrupt separations – from her birth mum and then her foster mum – led to some sort of attachment disorder, preventing her bonding easily.&lt;br /&gt;We didn&#39;t seek help for Lucy till towards the end. The GP referred us to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, but the adoption broke down before that got under way. We were already having family therapy: in fact, despite our problems we decided we wanted another child, and in August 2003 I became pregnant.&lt;br /&gt;Eventually the adoption didn&#39;t break down because of Lucy or Jon, but because of what happened to Hannah. Just before Christmas 2003, Hannah showed me a mark that she&#39;d scraped on her stomach with a pen. She sat on my knee and cried, saying that she got worried and angry. She didn&#39;t blame Lucy explicitly, but she did say that she liked our time after Lucy had gone to bed the best. I resolved to give Hannah lots of attention over the holidays, and Jon and I decided to take her to the doctor after Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;Then on 10 January 2004, when Lucy was in bed and I was running a bath for myself, Hannah ran ahead of me to jump into my bath water and I saw two new scratch marks on her belly about six inches long. She ran into her room and pulled the quilt over her head and wouldn&#39;t speak to me. Eventually I coaxed it out of her. &#39;I can&#39;t hurt Lucy so I hurt myself,&#39; she said. &#39;If I go to you, you tell me to be more tolerant, and if I go to Dad it starts arguments – so I just hurt myself.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;As I sat crying in the bath, it suddenly became clear. Despite our best intentions, our whole family was in tatters. Hannah was so distraught that she was turning her anger against herself. I told Hannah that night that, despite our attempts to make things better through family therapy, her dad and I had decided that Lucy would have to leave. She was horrified and kept saying, &#39;She won&#39;t go to a children&#39;s home, will she?&#39;&lt;br /&gt;I reassured her she wouldn&#39;t. Then I told Jon. He protested – he was determined we could make it work – but I threatened to leave with Hannah if he didn&#39;t agree. The truth is that my need to protect Hannah overrode my need to care for Lucy.&lt;br /&gt;It took a month for Lucy to leave because, at first, the local authorities said we just needed support. We discovered later that they didn&#39;t believe what we told them about Hannah, and were convinced that we wanted Lucy to go because I was pregnant with a &#39;miracle baby&#39;. They didn&#39;t realise I&#39;d always been able to conceive and had chosen to adopt instead.&lt;br /&gt;Eventually, Jon threatened to bring Lucy to their offices and leave her there. The result of this was that they rang one Friday and said, &#39;OK, we&#39;ll come and get her on Monday.&#39; In tears, I begged for more time to prepare her but they were adamant. So, again, she was to have an abrupt separation.&lt;br /&gt;It was the worst day of my life when I had to tell Lucy she was leaving. I was crying and saying, &#39;I&#39;m so sorry, Lucy,&#39; and she said, &#39;Do I have to move?&#39; She&#39;d guessed.&lt;br /&gt;When I said &#39;yes&#39; she just wanted to know when, and counted the days on her fingers, &#39;Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.&#39; Then she said, &#39;I thought I was going to stop breathing and die when you said that.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;I said it was because of her dad&#39;s relationship with her – which I know was wrong, but we didn&#39;t want her blaming herself and we were trying to keep Hannah out of it. We didn&#39;t want either girl to blame the other. Over that weekend, Lucy&#39;s reactions changed constantly. She&#39;d been told that the reason her birth mother couldn&#39;t look after her was because she was ill. &#39;But you&#39;re not ill!&#39; she&#39;d say to us, accusingly. Then she&#39;d wonder about the place she was going to and was almost excited, saying, &#39;They might have loads of money.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;On the day, Hannah decided she wanted to go to school but Lucy stayed at home. We must have spent a great part of that day packing, but it&#39;s a blur to me now. My only recollections are of Lucy sitting next to me on the sofa and asking me the time frequently, and then asking, &#39;So how long have I got left?&#39;&lt;br /&gt;At 4pm two social workers arrived to take Lucy. Then she was gone. I used to say I don&#39;t feel guilty, because guilt is attached to wrongdoing. But I did and still do. And I grieved. I noticed a massive gap after she left.&lt;br /&gt;In hindsight, there were some crucial errors that meant the adoption was bound to fail. The two-day introductory period just wasn&#39;t enough. Also, although we knew that Lucy was used to being the younger sister when she came to us, we didn&#39;t realise that she&#39;d had two very competitive relationships with older girls.&lt;br /&gt;Her birth sister Jade was allowed contact with their mum while she wasn&#39;t (because Jade was six years older and the court ruled that her attachment was therefore greater); that must have made her feel terrible. Then there was an older girl in Lucy&#39;s foster family, Shahida, whom her foster carer was adopting; again Lucy must have felt unwanted. She should never have been placed in another family with an older sister. We later found out that in the last year Jade had been passing her messages from their birth mum saying that they were her real family and that one day they&#39;d all be together. Jade&#39;s influence must have confused Lucy about her sense of identity and who she really belonged to. Jon firmly believes that, had she not maintained contact with Jade, everything might have been different.&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m still very pro-adoption. For many children it provides years of fulfilling unconditional family love. But anyone considering it should arm themselves with as much background information on the child as possible, and make sure the introduction period is handled properly. Wanting to do &#39;good&#39; is not enough.&lt;br /&gt;Lucy is with a different foster carer now but still feels like our absent daughter. Because we adopted her legally, we continue to hold parental responsibility for her, but it&#39;s not in any real sense, just on paper. She&#39;s 12, which makes her chances of being adopted by anyone else very slim as people tend to want younger children. We send birthday and Christmas cards but last year didn&#39;t get a response. I&#39;ve been told that she talks about us affectionately, but who knows? We&#39;ve since had Macy, who is four, and Hannah is now 14.&lt;br /&gt;In Lucy&#39;s file we&#39;ve placed a letter saying that if she ever wants to contact us we&#39;d like to hear from her. Perhaps the story has not ended after all.&lt;br /&gt;All names have been changed. Karen Carr&#39;s book, Adoption Undone, is available from baaf.org.uk for £7.95. For more information on adoption, visit BAAF&#39;s website or call 020 7421 2600&lt;br /&gt;There is so much I want to say about this story but I don&#39;t want to respond to it with a rant of anger and venom towards the vile selfish adopters. The point is this isn&#39;t just a story, this is a child&#39;s life. No thought or consideration was given to her needs and interests. This was a child who was little more than a designer convenience to fill a selfish whim.&lt;br /&gt;Every single person involved in the child&#39;s adoption, from the adopters to case workers and agencies should be charged with child neglect. Right down the line people neglected to protect her best interests. What is the saddest reflection of all is that without exception from the adopters down to the officials on every level all feel a tremendous sadness and all have praise for the adopters bravery and courage in telling the &#39;raw&#39; and honest account of their heart ache.?? Anger, WHY are there no feelings of anger.&lt;br /&gt;Am I really just a hurt and bitter angry adoptee... NO, and that I am sure about. These people didn&#39;t only crush this child&#39;s mind and heart they have gone on to make money out of the situation in the form of a book.&lt;br /&gt;Adoption is wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/7304567484317356380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=7304567484317356380' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7304567484317356380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7304567484317356380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/adoption-is-wrong_05.html' title='Adoption IS Wrong'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-8712718506029328805</id><published>2008-07-04T21:30:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T21:44:17.963+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>Secretly Crying</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Every year more than 50,000 children in England and Wales have their fates decided by the family courts. When divorcing parents cannot agree on how the children they produced together should be looked after, a judge from the family courts will adjudicate and enforce a particular way of dividing those children’s time between their two parents. Equally, when officers of the state (usually social workers) believe that children’s interests would be better served by being taken away from their biological parents and given either to a new couple to adopt, or handed over to the care of a state-run institution, it again requires a decision from a judge from the family courts, a decision which will be irrevocable. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/secret-justice-private-hell&quot; linkindex=&quot;11&quot;&gt;Secret justice-private-hell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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  3. &lt;b&gt;The outcome of a family court hearing can result in a far greater &#39;sentence&#39; than any criminal court. A sentence handed out by family courts WILL often be a life sentence to both children and parents alike. &lt;br /&gt;
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  9. Unlike the British judicial system though the proceedings of family courts are shielded from any out side scrutiny due to the veil of secrecy. A secrecy it is claimed that protects the child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  11. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The blanket that covers what takes place in the family courts is so impenetrable that there is no systematic research about the effects of their decisions: no one except the judge, and the affected family (occasionally &lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;not even the family&lt;/span&gt;) is allowed to read the secret court documents.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  12. &lt;b&gt;A system of any sorts in reality can only be as effective as the measures put into place to ensure correct procedures are followed, implemented and held accountable. Far from edging towards any sort of openness and fairness in family proceedings the secrecy veil appears to be getting much darker. The scope that social&amp;nbsp; workers have to cite as grounds to remove a child is forever widening.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  14. &lt;b&gt;It is not&amp;nbsp; necessary to show that a child has been damaged in any way at all. All that is necessary is the claim that, at some point in the future, the child might suffer emotional damage — a claim which is of course impossible for any parent to disprove.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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  16. &lt;b&gt;How many more families have to be wrongly ripped apart.&amp;nbsp; How much longer will our child protection secretly go on protecting the enforces. Maybe it would be easier to ask how long is a piece of string.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  21. &lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/8712718506029328805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=8712718506029328805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/8712718506029328805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/8712718506029328805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/07/secretly-crying_04.html' title='Secretly Crying'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-2331905825892168289</id><published>2008-06-27T15:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-27T15:30:16.558+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><title type='text'>Madonna to divorce</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.monkiri.com/uploads/m/much2say/1912.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Whats this all about!... Come on call me stupid but divorce is a huge step. You don&#39;t suddenly wake up one morning and decide &#39;I want a divorce&#39;. Guy and Madonna must have been having problems for a while. So why, oh why were they allowed to adopt!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;If this isn&#39;t proof that they didn&#39;t follow correct procedures for inter-country adoption then I don&#39;t know what is. How dare they adopt a child when their own relationship isn&#39;t stable!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;You don&#39;t have to be in a relationship to give a child all the love and stability it needs. You shouldn&#39;t however bring a child into an uncertain relationship. The couples actions with regards baby &#39;Davids&#39; adoption have been totally irresponsible from the start.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;The Hague Convention unilateral inter country adoption agreement was set up to protect children from&amp;nbsp; illegal adoption and stop the trafficking and selling of babies.&amp;nbsp; At the last count there were approximately 65 country members signed up to the international treaty, all working together as a central governing body. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;The importance of the Hague agreement goes so much deeper than stopping the flow of human traffic. It ensures that all cross country adoptions follow the same guide lines and most importantly all documentation relating to the adoption is held safe in a governing central place. Prospective adoptive parents must all follow the same guide lines. Applying to adopt in their own country and then if accepted applying in the same manner to the country they want to adopt from. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Ensuring that adoptions are carried out this way is vital for the children, their families and the adoptive parents. Parents are interviewed to make sure they fully understand the implications of freeing their child for adoption and DNA test are carried out to ensure they are the true parents and that the child has not been abducted.&amp;nbsp; All paperwork crosses the two countries and guarantees the adoption is recognized and legal in both. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;All together the country agreements halt the supply and call for trafficking. Adoptive parents will have full medical knowledge for their child and most importantly the adopted child will&amp;nbsp; when adult have access to their adoption records and true information regarding their birth, family and heritage. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Malawi, not a signed member of the Hague convention agreement. Malawi does have one adoption &#39;law&#39;. The adoptive parents must be from Malawi or spend at least 18 months as residents of the country. Madonna and Guy spent nine days in total.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Child trafficking and illegal adoptions would fail to exist without the people eager to take these children. More and more countries are realizing the importance of protecting the rights of children and are joining the Hague convention. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;It is time to ask, did these celebrities choose their countries of adoption through ignorance or did they choose them because they could take their pick with rapid collection. All that&#39;s left now is to see who wins their latest purchase in the divorce settlement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;[ &lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/259080/madonna-leaves-guy-ritchie-the-truth-is-out/1/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.nowmagazine.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.monkiri.com/uploads/m/much2say/1911.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;600&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://www.monkiri.com/uploads/m/much2say/1911.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/259080/madonna-leaves-guy-ritchie-the-truth-is-out/1/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/259080/madonna-leaves-guy-ritchie-the-truth-is-out/1/&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/2331905825892168289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=2331905825892168289' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2331905825892168289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2331905825892168289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/madonna-to-divorce.html' title='Madonna to divorce'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-353077367063324782</id><published>2008-06-25T18:51:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T04:38:38.949+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="videos"/><title type='text'>political prisoners of Tony Blair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/PWdPdknQdNM&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/PWdPdknQdNM&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our family laws are a law unto themselves. Families continue to be ripped apart under a veil of secrecy. There is no redress. The slightest hint of objection leads to arrests of the innocent.&lt;br /&gt;Something has to change.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/353077367063324782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=353077367063324782' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/353077367063324782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/353077367063324782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/political-prisoners-of-tony-blair.html' title='political prisoners of Tony Blair'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-4098364368355015526</id><published>2008-06-25T11:52:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T11:56:50.062+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><title type='text'>UKs 400 missing trafficked children</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;font-size:10;&quot; &gt;[ &lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/23/childprotection.immigrationandpublicservices&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:180%;&quot;&gt;The UK are constantly failing their own children.  &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Should we be surprised then by these latest figures. I am more surprised that there is an admission or acknowledgement to this situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UK largely deny child trafficking and prefer to think in terms of illegal immigrants, meaning that many children  are deported at the first opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.monkiri.com/uploads/m/much2say/1846.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.monkiri.com/uploads/m/much2say/1846.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/23/childprotection.immigrationandpublicservices&quot; title=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/23/childprotection.immigrationandpublicservices&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;451&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt; According to records from 16 local authorities around England&#39;s ports and airports, an estimated 408 children disappeared between July 2004 and July 2007. They are known by officialdom as unaccompanied asylum seekers and child protection campaigners believe most have been trafficked.  It is thought that many escape only for traffickers to send them on for exploitation in other parts of the world, particularly Italy and Spain. Only 12 children have been traced and returned to care.  &quot;We are shocked that the numbers keep rising,&quot; said Christine Beddoe, the chief executive of ECPAT UK which campaigns for greater protection for trafficked children. &quot;These figures come in spite of the government&#39;s action plan on trafficking and show the need for an urgent inquiry into separated children who go missing. These vulnerable children need to be given independent guardians as soon as possible to ensure they are protected from traffickers who we know target them even while they are in care.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/4098364368355015526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=4098364368355015526' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/4098364368355015526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/4098364368355015526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/uks-400-missing-trafficked-children.html' title='UKs 400 missing trafficked children'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-2001808347377895847</id><published>2008-06-25T06:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T09:24:37.675+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ben Needham"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><title type='text'>Ben Needham - Failed by UK</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/?action=view&amp;amp;current=Ben21months-1.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/Ben21months-1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Next month will mark the 17th anniversary of Ben Needhams abduction. July 24th 1991 21 month old Ben was abducted from outside his family home on the Greek Island of Kos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Ben&#39;s&#39; family haven&#39;t been abandoned by the UK Government in their search for Ben. The UK Government has NEVER shown any interest or inclination to support the family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;a ahref=&quot;http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/?action=view&amp;amp;current=JohnMajorxxx.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/JohnMajorxxx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/?action=view&amp;amp;current=11-Thoughtful160.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/11-Thoughtful160.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/?action=view&amp;amp;current=gb.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 141px; height: 118px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/gb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three Priministers later and still nothing. John Major, Tony Blair and now Gordon Brown, doing sod all to help a UK citizen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abduction for the purpose of illegal adoption is not some far fetched mystical Greek legend. The trade in illegal adoptions is Greek fact. A Greek fact that no one seems prepared to confront.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gordon Brown and his fellow parliamentary haven&#39;t been afraid to interfere in Portuguese law nor have they been shy in showing support towards official suspects in a child abduction case. 17 years is long enough to ignore the plight of one of its&#39; own children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s time our Government left the Portuguese authorities to continue unhindered in their criminal investigations. Instead they need to offer Ben&#39;s family the full backing and support of their country and develop a firm relationship with Greece to ensure that every possible avenue is explored and explored again until Ben&#39;s&#39; whereabouts are known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For anyone who finds themselves in Greece this year I ask you to please keep Ben in your thoughts. Of course Ben is not that chubby faced baby any more, he is a young man. The image below is a likeness of how Ben should look now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/?action=view&amp;amp;current=imagebentag.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/imagebentag.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; http://www.benneedham.net/index.htm &lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/2001808347377895847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=2001808347377895847' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2001808347377895847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2001808347377895847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/ben-needham-failed-by-uk.html' title='Ben Needham - Failed by UK'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-7636467106295234808</id><published>2008-06-24T00:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T04:41:50.197+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Amusing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="videos"/><title type='text'>adoption rollercoaster</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/liEX7m5vY2w&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/liEX7m5vY2w&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;we can dream!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/7636467106295234808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=7636467106295234808' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7636467106295234808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7636467106295234808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/adoption-rollercoaster.html' title='adoption rollercoaster'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-4327607019334433879</id><published>2008-06-18T05:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T05:59:22.347+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><title type='text'>Justice for Scott</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:180%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Help  Scotts mum and family get the justice they deserve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Please sign the petition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;&quot; &gt;&lt;a set=&quot;yes&quot; linkindex=&quot;20&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/justice-for-scott/signatures-page1.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/justice-for-scott/signatures-page1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scott Burgess was found stabbed to death on 06-09-07. Steven Price, Irene and Karen Duncan had  planned how to murder him, then did so in his own living room! They stabbed and tortured Scott with knives then watched as he bled to death a long lingering horrific death. They showed no compassion or regret, they even took their photos with Scott&#39;s corpse. Not even the girls phoned an ambulance this was an evil crime yet all Irene got was 27months, Karen 7 years and Price a 15 year recomendation. For this evil barbaric crime these sentences are far too Lenient.&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/4327607019334433879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=4327607019334433879' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/4327607019334433879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/4327607019334433879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/justice-for-scott.html' title='Justice for Scott'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-5653599473051564769</id><published>2008-06-18T05:05:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T04:44:28.796+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="videos"/><title type='text'>adoption hurts - truth ignored</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/fRDxa1wkI5s&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/fRDxa1wkI5s&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/5653599473051564769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=5653599473051564769' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/5653599473051564769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/5653599473051564769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/adoption-hurts-truth-ignored.html' title='adoption hurts - truth ignored'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-2405449941329080465</id><published>2008-06-16T22:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T22:57:03.249+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><title type='text'>Fathers for Justice</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;On Sunday - Father&#39;s Day - North Wales Police were alerted to a car off a hillside road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;near Llanrwst by a passer-by. Inside they found a brother and sister from Cheshire lying dead with their father.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Brian Philcox, 52, from the Windmill Hill area of Runcorn, was a member of Fathers for Justice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Mr Philcox had picked up Amy aged 7 and Owen age 3 from an arranged access visit on Friday. They had been reported missing on Saturday night and police in Cheshire had been looking for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Why Brian Philcox killed his children I dont know. All I know is two more children have died in a battle over child care. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7457077.stm&quot;&gt;Full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/2405449941329080465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=2405449941329080465' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2405449941329080465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2405449941329080465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/fathers-for-justice.html' title='Fathers for Justice'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-2327718707930201328</id><published>2008-06-14T11:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-14T12:14:15.519+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><title type='text'>adoption exploitation</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;MTV are about to promote adoption!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ACT NOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;We try so hard to have our voices heard, yet no one listens. Short of crying tears of blood I am at a loss of what to do. Here is the email I have copied from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://writingmywrongs.typepad.com/writing_my_wrongs/2008/06/how-true-is-tru.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;writing my wrongs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt; outlining MTVs plans.&lt;br /&gt;NCFA Lends a Helping Hand to MTV’s True Life Adoption Documentary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The National Council For Adoption is lending a helping hand to the producers of an adoption documentary for the successful and popular MTV’s True Life series. Previous True Life documentaries have dealt with substantial subjects such as autism, schizophrenia, and war-weary veterans returning from Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The adoption documentary will follow three or four young unwed birthmothers on video as they go through difficult and emotional decisions in developing adoption plans for their babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;According to the show’s producers, the goals of the True Life adoption documentary are &quot;to help de-stigmatize the adoption process and to show that adoption is a choice that loving, responsible mothers make when they believe it’s best for their child. We also hope to express the range of emotions birth mothers feel as they go through this process.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These goals coincide with the mission of NCFA’s new iChooseAdoption public awareness campaign to &quot;create a more pro-adoption culture in which everyone, including women facing unplanned pregnancies, can consider adoption freely without fear, bias, or misunderstanding&quot; and to &quot;promote a culture that respects and appreciates birth mothers, honors their decision-making process, and supports their choice of adoption.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MTV is conducting a nationwide search for prospective birth mothers for the True Life adoption documentary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you know of any expectant birth mother who you feel would make a good candidate for this documentary, please contact the producers directly at adoption@mtvstaff.com, or by calling 718-422-0705.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We expect the True Life show to bring the adoption process more into the public limelight and provide a viable and important link to the target audience we are trying to reach with our iChooseAdoption message, namely young unwed expectant birth mothers who are facing difficult decisions concerning the future of their babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chuck Johnson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to be the voice for these babies. Adoption hurts children, we know because those hurt children live inside us. The influential rich and famous are doing a good enough job already when it comes to promoting ignorance. I&#39;m sick of seeing celebrities swinging their latest purchase on their hips. The money they paid to buy their &#39;must have&#39; ethnic baby, could, if they truly cared, probably have supported the baby and its entire village for a lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously bored with the multicultural theme another trend needs to be found. Once again the words &#39;best interest of the child&#39; will be used to exploit and damage the lives of so many. For what? entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please email Chuck Johnson at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:adoption@mtvstaff.com&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;adoption@mtvstaff.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt; and make your voice heard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Here is the email that I have sent:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Chuck;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m writing from the UK with regards to your True Life&lt;br /&gt;adoption documentary. Please, if you genuinely care&lt;br /&gt;about the emotional and long term well being of&lt;br /&gt;mothers and children don&#39;t help to promote adoption.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;The Internet is full of yesterdays adoptees all trying so&lt;br /&gt;hard to be heard. We come from all over the world, all&lt;br /&gt;walks of life, all religions and one thing in common.&lt;br /&gt;Hurt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Adoption is not about children nor is it about the&lt;br /&gt;loving selfless act of a responsible woman acting in&lt;br /&gt;her child&#39;s best interest. I wont use the word birth&lt;br /&gt;mother because if you look into the history of adoption&lt;br /&gt;you will discover that &#39;birth mother&#39; was manufactured&lt;br /&gt;for the purpose of letting the mother know that &#39;birth&#39;&lt;br /&gt;was where her role ended. It was also to reinforce the&lt;br /&gt;idea that the adoptive mother was the real mother.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Adoption for a child and mother is about loss. While&lt;br /&gt;the adoptive family celebrate their joy at becoming a&lt;br /&gt;family, somewhere there is a mother crying. All the&lt;br /&gt;love in the world does not stop the empty feeling that&lt;br /&gt;grows stronger with time in the child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Please take the time to listen to other adult adoptees.&lt;br /&gt;The full impact of adoption only surfaces when we are&lt;br /&gt;adults.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;I would also ask you to consider what effect your&lt;br /&gt;documentary will have on the children involved. I cant&lt;br /&gt;emphasise enough the pain that we go through&lt;br /&gt;searching for answers. No adoptee should have to sit&lt;br /&gt;and watch that moment of separation. Adoptees don&#39;t&lt;br /&gt;just hurt for themselves, they hurt for every tear their&lt;br /&gt;mother might of shed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Thank you for your time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;tina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/2327718707930201328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=2327718707930201328' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2327718707930201328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2327718707930201328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/06/adoption-exploitation.html' title='adoption exploitation'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-7678075223917367963</id><published>2008-05-07T14:44:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T04:45:04.120+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SS failings"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="videos"/><title type='text'>Children - The UK Currency</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/qHJpe2LkMHc&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/qHJpe2LkMHc&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/7678075223917367963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=7678075223917367963' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7678075223917367963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/7678075223917367963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/05/children-uk-currency.html' title='Children - The UK Currency'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-2842227290486896205</id><published>2008-05-07T03:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T04:45:53.990+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="videos"/><title type='text'>adoption hurts... the continuation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/fES6mvi5AaU&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/fES6mvi5AaU&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/2842227290486896205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=2842227290486896205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2842227290486896205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/2842227290486896205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/05/adoption-hurts-continuation.html' title='adoption hurts... the continuation'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-1338657524920406747</id><published>2008-04-04T02:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T02:29:45.262+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption"/><title type='text'>Adoption Targets</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/hammersmith.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;cursor: pointer; width: 426px; height: 567px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/much2say/hammersmith.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;&quot; &gt;The UK Government and local authorities have, for the past 3 years denied  setting adoption targets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10th March 2008 the London Borough of Hammersmith announced: &lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;they are pleased to get £500,000 from the government for hitting the government adoption target of 101 adoptions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fullpost&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government target, known as a Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA), challenged the Council to successfully achieve 101 adoptions or secure placements during the last three year period in return for £500,000 of funding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again our Government told no lies. Once again the have they have scrapped an offending act and immediately reintroduced it with a different title.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Society in general has undergone many changes over the years. Like wise Government spin have also changed to reflect this. The one thing that hasn&#39;t changed over time is the UKs Governments ability to decieve in order to do what ever it feels like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://johnhemming.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/1338657524920406747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=1338657524920406747' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/1338657524920406747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/1338657524920406747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/04/adoption-targets.html' title='Adoption Targets'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829563119437528296.post-5105071145952239915</id><published>2008-03-27T06:22:00.004+00:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T04:46:42.501+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="videos"/><title type='text'>Child Trafficking- Introduction</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param value=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/90yV5y9IDkU&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://youtube.com/v/90yV5y9IDkU&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/feeds/5105071145952239915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4829563119437528296&amp;postID=5105071145952239915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/5105071145952239915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4829563119437528296/posts/default/5105071145952239915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adaptingmyidentity.blogspot.com/2008/03/child-trafficking-introduction_26.html' title='Child Trafficking- Introduction'/><author><name>Tina with much2say</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15177876434849711942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1mMQl_EG6a9k2MXRqH0ldjHp0yrpGdNltc9rgWvQTP-Pd2xyMhw0V4NjYTADeZ08mPWImYfHPDDil8yMu-aMk0k5gZK7M3Y85gOmPkOtrL0fA_DWIeG9wJRZkP83CQ/s220/20200216_190320955_iOS.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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