
As an adoptee I find very little comfort from these apologies being made; how can that change the grief, pain and anguish already caused? An apology here is a cop-out, it's not necessarily made or endorsed by those individually responsible, all it is after all is acknowledgment of what happened in the past, a corrective measure to say we don't condone these type of practices anymore - but they did! They want to protect their so called trust to families today, that's all. Whether you are a birth parent who was forced to relinqhuish their baby or an adoptee who was robbed of their parents, families, origins how can an apology fix that - it just can't. You don't suddenly turn around and say - oh well an apology has made all the difference, I forgive them. Our lives are not mended over-night nor will they. The effects of such acts are life long, never forgotten. So to the very hospital which I was born and possibly stolen from, shame on you all, you will have to live with the knowledge of such wrong doings.
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