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It is a shame that we do not hear further from those who are so quick to defend the evidence of Dr Alexina McWhinnie. I have looked again at court documents from the post 1949 Adoption Act era. I am unable to see how that it would have been possible for adoptive parents in England and Wales to adopt a child at that time without knowing the child's previous identity (except in the unusual circumstances that I have outlined).
Perhaps we shall hear from someone who does work for the ONS or DfES, perhaps one of those who gave evidence to the more recent Committee on the two Adoption and Children Bills of 2001/2 would like to set the record straight. I would like to know why we still have a law requiring counselling for those adopted pre 12 November 1975 which appears to be based on incorrect evidence to a government committee in the 1970s
Robin Harritt
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