AN E MAIL FROM THE JOURNALIST THAT I FEEL SET US UP SOCIAL NETWORK SITES

[Alison J Stevens]

Dear Alison,

Just back from holiday and reading your email.

I hope you saw the report on the Sunday night: the film was about how
adoption agencies and local authorities are concerned that birth
parents and their children are making contact online. As part of this,
it was necessary to include interviews with adoptive parents, adoption
agencies and social workers BUT in order to give the piece balance, it
was vital to include the perspective of a birth parent.

I felt that Chris Smith gave a powerful interview. He made many
important points, namely, that 'letterbox' contact leaves birth parents
with a 'huge desire' to know more and hence the internet fills in those
gaps.
Also, he added that just because contact is made between a birth parent
and their child, doesn't - he feels - mean that the birth parent will
approach the children and cause 'havoc'.

To that end, I want to thankyou very much for putting us in contact
with birth parents; I feel that the film really benefitted from having
a birth parent perspective.

Kind regards,

Nina



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[Alison J Stevens]

Hi Nina,
With reference to the channel 4 news article that will be on at 6.30 tonight portraying adoption,and social networking sites,and parents trying to find information about their children, i am very concerned that these anguished parents have been highlighted in a negative manner, as well as Parents Against Injustice,a National Organization, that is well respected within Parliament.
I spent quite a lot of time e mailing PAIN clients, with regards to this issue,to take part in this cause,and am very disappointed with the outcome of today's report in the Guardian.
Many of these Parents have suffered miscarriages of Justice,and forced adoption, by the unfairness of the secret family courts,and this article, just adds to their misery.
Many of my clients have been vindicated by the courts,and Social Services, but have had their children wrongly taken into care.
We have the tragedy's of Sally Clark,now deceased, Angela Canning,and the episode of Cleveland, to highlight the tragedies involved, the newspaper on one occasion mentions my ex co worker it depicts his surname only, he is not a criminal, just a loving father, that has lost his children to a corrupt system,in this case his name has been vindicated.
Kind regards Alison Stevens Parents Against Injustice.