Well this thread appears to have been looked about a 100 time since I last posted nearly a month ago. But no one has had anything to add. Rupert's not been back to further defend Dr McWhinnie and his reliance on her seemingly somewhat dubious findings given the realities of the 1926, 1949 and 1950 Adoption of Children Acts.
Is there really anyone out there in England & Wales or even Scotland from where McWhinnie comes, who would like to come forward and claim that they were given a child to adopt at any time in the last century and were not told that child's full birth name (foundlings and readoptions aside of course)? Is there anyone who was adopted prior to 12th of November 1975 who truly believes that their adopive parents really never were told what their birth name was?
Robin Harritt
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