During the year ending last March Three thousand and fifty looked after children were adopted. Sixty were classified babies. Two percent. Point twenty of a percent decrease (approx) on the previous year. That must be good news. That less children are adopted must mean more babies are with their birth parents. We must be a happier society – point twenty of a percent happier.

This decrease  has been flagrantly used to inflame the debate on same race adoptions. Only two percent of the three thousand and fifty adoptions were for black babies. Therefore of sixty babies adopted last year it’s statistically likely that one or two were black. How can these statistics   be used by Cameron as a case against same race adoptions other than to play to a decided majority against a powerless minority. Years earlier the  powerless were single mothers and the government and church set society against them too and used adoption as their weapon.

Many successfully adopted adults today in their forties  seek out those single birth mothers but haven’t the emotional intelligence (?)  to understand that the pressure put on them   to adopt was not their’s but the governments. And more sadly many of the traumatized single birth mothers lost the capacity to tell their resourceful and  often well educated returnee birth children.

It is in light of this that we enter Adoption week and a concerted adoption drive by government.  Forced Adoptions are the governments way of cracking the code as they did in the sixties.  The truth will come to light not now but in twenty years time when they start to search for their birth parents. They’ll become known not as the lost children, that name’s been taken,  not as the stolen generation, that names been taken too but as the The Forced Generation. And they will trace their story back to now. And we will not be here to answer their questions.