July 2021 Adoptee Revocation Survey UK Report

 

From 18th May 2021 up until the date of writing this report on the 16th July 2021,  two of us as UK adult adoptees designed and ran a survey for UK Adult Adoptees. By July it had accrued 95 adult adoptee respondents from areas of Facebook groups. Only UK Adult Adoptees "adopted in the UK" were permitted to do the survey 

What we wanted to test was whether or not UK Adult Adoptees wanted to revoke their adoptions if that was legally eased in the UK. 51 % said they wanted revocation. We tested other matters too like experience for adult adoptees of needing therapy and whether they had been child abused inside adoption...We did this because some UK adoptees had told us they were pained by adoption though there were others who had "good" Adoptions...    

The figures below are shocking for us to see and speak for themselves . 42 % of the respondents stated they were child abused inside Adoption experience.

These shock figures have never before been generated or even selectively audited by UK Mental Health Services or Social Services. Increasingly in fact over recent years  Social Services have trumpeted the promotion of Adoption in the UK.  These figures we found  become even more shockingly contextualiseed when the same survey turned up a potent and shocking lack of any therapy that people needed - see next table. 


Testing the need for therapy (71% needed it)  and showing the lack of it, was crucial really in showing how adult UK adoptees are treated by the UK Health and Social Care system across time. The relevance of this too becomes pointed when it is noted that from 2015 the Govt created an:  "Adoption Support Fund " which seems to be solely shared by current Adopters to skill up on parenting young adoptees as well as supporting Adoptees in their changed identity-life with their court appointed parents...

Here are the results of  our survey below which gives a powerful 86% respondent picture of the lack of availability of therapy from the point of view of UK adult adoptees. It seems "Post Adoption Services" for Adults are failing them,  whilst the same services select new adoptees to push through the adoption system. 

In summary, we found disturbing facts and no UK Govt measurements of them. None. We have found a very pro-adoption agenda though, which adoption charities are pushing with their own surveys on adopters needs and post adoption services targeted at young adopted people (up to age 24) .

Key amongst those pro-adoption charities  is Adoption UK with it's work on its Adoption Barometer 2021  which tends to skew towards a very pro-adoption agenda. It does show also in that report and it's previous one,  how adoptees are finding development inside adoption difficult in terms of eventual ability to be in education , training and employment.. Key measures, in fact  which it uses for a statistical performance base to see how the "Adoption Support Fund" may be working to stabilise Adoptees.

When we went to Adoption UK's website to find "Post Adoption Support" for adults and pressed on the Adoption Services For Adults  several times,  this is what we found (screen captured) -



Comments

  1. Fantastic work to you!! So sad that your results show what they do but I am not surprised. If only the Uk govt would broadly consult with adult adoptees .. they seem to selectively consult with those who will give them the results they’re looking for.
    I hope this inspires more activism by adoptees to push for their rights - you’re a great role model! Keep up the incredible work.

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  2. I'm so pleased to have discovered your suburb work. Sadly, the results of the survey don't surprise me, which in itself is an indicator of just how broken the system is. As a researcher, I've not delved into the experiences of adult adoptee's, so I hope that we can forge a mutually beneficial working relationship going forwards.

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  3. In a heartbeat. I'm working on this now in the United States.

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