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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.

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.

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