Petition End Forced Adoption

Forced adoption, or non-consensual adoption, allows the UK government to put children up for adoption without parental consent.

This petition calls for the UK Government, to end its forced adoption policy - Consider consensual adoptions only and to reverse all such adoptions.

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Punishment without crime must be eliminated from our legal system.

Forced Adoption can cause life long pain and suffering, for the children and families involved.

Concerns around human rights, healthy development in forcibly adopted children and heightened trauma experienced by vulnerable parents has led to the majority of countries implementing consensual adoption practices.

Forced adoption has to end. It is emotional abuse.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

2,169 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 2,169 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 11 March 2021
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