Prison Adoptee
@prisonadoptee.bsky.social
I was born to an incarcerated mother. Many adoptees like me—especially those whose mothers were labeled 'juvenile delinquents'—remain unaware of their carceral birth because youth protection laws prevent disclosure.
https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
Pinned
Prison Adoptee
@prisonadoptee.bsky.social
· Nov 21
‘Keeping Mum’: A Historical Examination of the Andrew Mercer Reformatory and its Contemporary Legacy Through a Framework of Motherhood
qspace.library.queensu.ca/items/82ec50...
qspace.library.queensu.ca/items/82ec50...
🥚If you’re an adoptee and your mother was a ward of a Children’s Aid Society, this won’t show in your records. Same if she was a "juvenile delinquent" or a ward of an Industrial/Training School—all of which means she was effectively incarcerated.
Why did admissions to maternity homes decline?👇1/2
Why did admissions to maternity homes decline?👇1/2
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
🥚If you’re an adoptee and your mother was a ward of a Children’s Aid Society, this won’t show in your records. Same if she was a "juvenile delinquent" or a ward of an Industrial/Training School—all of which means she was effectively incarcerated.
Why did admissions to maternity homes decline?👇1/2
Why did admissions to maternity homes decline?👇1/2
JFMR Statement Regarding a Significant Error in Testimony Documentary
🥚
jfmresearch.com/testimony/jf...
🥚
jfmresearch.com/testimony/jf...
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
JFMR Statement Regarding a Significant Error in Testimony Documentary
🥚
jfmresearch.com/testimony/jf...
🥚
jfmresearch.com/testimony/jf...
🥚The Manitoba Métis Federation is suing the provincial and federal governments after the Red River Métis were largely excluded from a class action settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Manitoba, Canada took part in 'intentional destruction' of Red River Métis culture via Sixties Scoop: lawsuit | CBC News
The Manitoba Métis Federation is suing the provincial and federal governments after the Red River Métis were largely excluded from a class action settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors.
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🥚The Manitoba Métis Federation is suing the provincial and federal governments after the Red River Métis were largely excluded from a class action settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
🥚Riveting NPE journey that began with an at-home DNA test and unfolded into the discovery that his father was not his genetic father.
@1:00:08 Wenzel states:
“you’re a health care professional and you are knowingly and wilfully documenting false information”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qv...
@1:00:08 Wenzel states:
“you’re a health care professional and you are knowingly and wilfully documenting false information”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qv...
Episode 09 | Dr.Richard Wenzel
YouTube video by Kristal Parke
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🥚Riveting NPE journey that began with an at-home DNA test and unfolded into the discovery that his father was not his genetic father.
@1:00:08 Wenzel states:
“you’re a health care professional and you are knowingly and wilfully documenting false information”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qv...
@1:00:08 Wenzel states:
“you’re a health care professional and you are knowingly and wilfully documenting false information”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qv...
Testimony
JFMR Statement: Testimony Documentary to be released in Irish and UK Cinemas
More info here: jfmresearch.com/testimony/
🥚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5_A...
JFMR Statement: Testimony Documentary to be released in Irish and UK Cinemas
More info here: jfmresearch.com/testimony/
🥚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5_A...
Testimony Trailer Digital - Updated
YouTube video by Rocliffe Productions
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Testimony
JFMR Statement: Testimony Documentary to be released in Irish and UK Cinemas
More info here: jfmresearch.com/testimony/
🥚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5_A...
JFMR Statement: Testimony Documentary to be released in Irish and UK Cinemas
More info here: jfmresearch.com/testimony/
🥚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5_A...
🥚The Privilege of Not Being Adopted: Survival, Trauma, and the Closed Circuit of Ego Unconsciousness
“Why Non-Adoptees Are Ignoring Adoptee Trauma – And It’s Hurting Everyone”
Source: medium.com/thoughtless-...
“Why Non-Adoptees Are Ignoring Adoptee Trauma – And It’s Hurting Everyone”
Source: medium.com/thoughtless-...
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
🥚The Privilege of Not Being Adopted: Survival, Trauma, and the Closed Circuit of Ego Unconsciousness
“Why Non-Adoptees Are Ignoring Adoptee Trauma – And It’s Hurting Everyone”
Source: medium.com/thoughtless-...
“Why Non-Adoptees Are Ignoring Adoptee Trauma – And It’s Hurting Everyone”
Source: medium.com/thoughtless-...
🥚Report covers “Acquiring children from adults in institutional care.” Canada tracked some adoptions from “unwed mothers,” but not those involving forcibly institutionalized parents (including juveniles) or unmarried parents more broadly—very different categories.
The English version of the Korean Truth and Reconciliation Committee's report on illegal practices concerning the adoptions of 200,000 children is out now. When it was released in Seoul on the 26th of March of this year it became world news
swedishkoreanadopteesnetwork.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
swedishkoreanadopteesnetwork.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🥚Report covers “Acquiring children from adults in institutional care.” Canada tracked some adoptions from “unwed mothers,” but not those involving forcibly institutionalized parents (including juveniles) or unmarried parents more broadly—very different categories.
Reposted by Prison Adoptee
it’s been a while since I mentioned that i created a feed for posts by people who are adopted/trafficked/purchased out of their original families. please consider adding it. And if you would like to post to it, please let me know in a reply. 🥚
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
it’s been a while since I mentioned that i created a feed for posts by people who are adopted/trafficked/purchased out of their original families. please consider adding it. And if you would like to post to it, please let me know in a reply. 🥚
🥚Adoptees of incarcerated moms exist—but no one’s paying attention. No research. No tracking. Just silence.
#Adoptees are diagnosed at higher rates with ADHD due to interaction of genes with environmental stressors such as systemic inequities and trauma related to adoption.
A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Why Adoptees Have Higher Rates of ADHD
Adoptees’ higher ADHD rates reflect genetic, prenatal, and social factors, highlighting the need for trauma-informed, adoption-competent care and systemic equity.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🥚Adoptees of incarcerated moms exist—but no one’s paying attention. No research. No tracking. Just silence.
🥚6-mth follow-up, breast exam.
The dreaded question — your family history.
“I’m adopted.”
“Oh, sorry — yes, you are. I didn’t see that.”
“What? It’s on my chart?” I exclaim.
I check — literally a box ticked for Adopted.
“New field,” she says.
Digital progress: logged. Human noticing: still pending.
The dreaded question — your family history.
“I’m adopted.”
“Oh, sorry — yes, you are. I didn’t see that.”
“What? It’s on my chart?” I exclaim.
I check — literally a box ticked for Adopted.
“New field,” she says.
Digital progress: logged. Human noticing: still pending.
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🥚6-mth follow-up, breast exam.
The dreaded question — your family history.
“I’m adopted.”
“Oh, sorry — yes, you are. I didn’t see that.”
“What? It’s on my chart?” I exclaim.
I check — literally a box ticked for Adopted.
“New field,” she says.
Digital progress: logged. Human noticing: still pending.
The dreaded question — your family history.
“I’m adopted.”
“Oh, sorry — yes, you are. I didn’t see that.”
“What? It’s on my chart?” I exclaim.
I check — literally a box ticked for Adopted.
“New field,” she says.
Digital progress: logged. Human noticing: still pending.
🥚How many were scooped from criminalized parents?
"Sixties Scoop... calling for a national inquiry into the tens of thousands of Indigenous children who were scooped from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes as a result of government policies."
www.aptnnews.ca/videos/60s-s...
"Sixties Scoop... calling for a national inquiry into the tens of thousands of Indigenous children who were scooped from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes as a result of government policies."
www.aptnnews.ca/videos/60s-s...
‘60s Scoop survivors call for national inquiry - APTN News
Sixties Scoop survivors and Manitoba Indigenous organizations are calling for a national inquiry into the...
www.aptnnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🥚How many were scooped from criminalized parents?
"Sixties Scoop... calling for a national inquiry into the tens of thousands of Indigenous children who were scooped from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes as a result of government policies."
www.aptnnews.ca/videos/60s-s...
"Sixties Scoop... calling for a national inquiry into the tens of thousands of Indigenous children who were scooped from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes as a result of government policies."
www.aptnnews.ca/videos/60s-s...
🥚For all those adoptees punished in utero, whose carceral birth histories were hidden as they suffered innumerable harms and whose lives were cut short — may their truths be unearthed, their stories honored, and the silence end for those still unaware of their carceral beginnings.
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🥚For all those adoptees punished in utero, whose carceral birth histories were hidden as they suffered innumerable harms and whose lives were cut short — may their truths be unearthed, their stories honored, and the silence end for those still unaware of their carceral beginnings.
4 girls — including my mother — escaped Mercer’s OTS wing but were caught and locked in the dungeon, where another desperate escape was attempted. It’s time to end these brutal, inhumane isolation conditions that disproportionately affect Indigenous, Black, and disabled people.
#S205 #EndSeg
#S205 #EndSeg
October 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🥚Statistics from the Children of Unmarried Parents Act were used to support claims of mass adoption among unmarried mothers. So how is it that only 562 out of 4,023 consented to relinquishment — or 562 out of 1,992 non-cohabiting mothers?
Race? Age? Institution? Incarcerated mothers?
See alt txt
Race? Age? Institution? Incarcerated mothers?
See alt txt
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🥚Statistics from the Children of Unmarried Parents Act were used to support claims of mass adoption among unmarried mothers. So how is it that only 562 out of 4,023 consented to relinquishment — or 562 out of 1,992 non-cohabiting mothers?
Race? Age? Institution? Incarcerated mothers?
See alt txt
Race? Age? Institution? Incarcerated mothers?
See alt txt
🥚Adoptees of Bluesky: Horrendous case of Ashley Smith! 👇For those who don’t know, she was an adoptee too.
Eighteen years after Ashley Smith’s preventable death in a segregation cell, Canada continues to grapple with the same injustices she suffered. 1/2
#AshleySmith #HumanRights #PrisonReform #TonasLaw #SenCA #BillS205
#AshleySmith #HumanRights #PrisonReform #TonasLaw #SenCA #BillS205
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🥚Adoptees of Bluesky: Horrendous case of Ashley Smith! 👇For those who don’t know, she was an adoptee too.
What would Canada uncover if it examined carceral births—children born to incarcerated mothers, especially those labeled “juvenile delinquents”? These histories are still sealed under youth protection laws, leaving adoptees unaware of their institutional origins.
Private agency adoptions ends, and adoptions will be centralized in South Korea. 🥚
#adopteesky
news.cgtn.com/news/2025-10...
#adopteesky
news.cgtn.com/news/2025-10...
Adoption Scandal: South Korea ends overseas adoption system after decades of scandal and calls for justice
South Korea has ended its decades-long reliance on private agencies to handle overseas adoptions of Korean children, after a government inquiry uncovered evidence of fraud, identity tampering, and wid...
news.cgtn.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What would Canada uncover if it examined carceral births—children born to incarcerated mothers, especially those labeled “juvenile delinquents”? These histories are still sealed under youth protection laws, leaving adoptees unaware of their institutional origins.
🥚Adoptee born of a mother at a Salvation Army home?
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
🥚Adoptee born of a mother at a Salvation Army home?
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
🥚𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐒𝐤𝐲:
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
🥚Note to adoptees: Youth protection laws will prevent you from learning your mother’s circumstances—whether she was criminalized or not. As one account explains, "girls found wandering the city streets are picked up by police and convicted of vagrancy even though they committed no criminal offence.”
October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🥚𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐒𝐤𝐲:
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
🥚Note to adoptees: Youth protection laws will prevent you from learning your mother’s circumstances—whether she was criminalized or not. As one account explains, "girls found wandering the city streets are picked up by police and convicted of vagrancy even though they committed no criminal offence.”
October 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🥚Note to adoptees: Youth protection laws will prevent you from learning your mother’s circumstances—whether she was criminalized or not. As one account explains, "girls found wandering the city streets are picked up by police and convicted of vagrancy even though they committed no criminal offence.”
🥚Very few adoptees know we were born in prison. I suspect thousands share this history — but it’s hidden behind youth privacy laws worldwide.
Upcoming event with Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of Prison Baby.
Upcoming event with Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of Prison Baby.
October 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🥚Very few adoptees know we were born in prison. I suspect thousands share this history — but it’s hidden behind youth privacy laws worldwide.
Upcoming event with Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of Prison Baby.
Upcoming event with Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of Prison Baby.
Reposted by Prison Adoptee
Today, on #MMIW Action Day, we honour the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People and demand justice and accountability. Too many lives have been lost while governments continue to resist implementing the National Inquiry’s Calls for Justice. 1/2
October 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today, on #MMIW Action Day, we honour the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People and demand justice and accountability. Too many lives have been lost while governments continue to resist implementing the National Inquiry’s Calls for Justice. 1/2
🥚Canada's "placing-out" system for indentured domestic and farm labour often secured the children of criminalized and incarcerated women and girls.
Full story of the D’Andrea, case coming soon.
Re D'Andrea, 1916 CanLII 479 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gw6np>, retrieved on 2025-09-27
Full story of the D’Andrea, case coming soon.
Re D'Andrea, 1916 CanLII 479 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gw6np>, retrieved on 2025-09-27
September 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🥚Canada's "placing-out" system for indentured domestic and farm labour often secured the children of criminalized and incarcerated women and girls.
Full story of the D’Andrea, case coming soon.
Re D'Andrea, 1916 CanLII 479 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gw6np>, retrieved on 2025-09-27
Full story of the D’Andrea, case coming soon.
Re D'Andrea, 1916 CanLII 479 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gw6np>, retrieved on 2025-09-27
🥚“Children are being falsely labelled with Russian citizenship and passports,” the Prime Minister told a UN event being held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
“A decree to fast track the citizenship process for abducted children has been signed by Putin himself.”
“A decree to fast track the citizenship process for abducted children has been signed by Putin himself.”
Carney accuses Putin of abducting thousands of Ukrainian children
->The Globe and Mail | #StandWithUkraine #PutinWarCriminal #RussiaUkraineWar | More from BigEarthData.ai
->The Globe and Mail | #StandWithUkraine #PutinWarCriminal #RussiaUkraineWar | More from BigEarthData.ai
Carney accuses Putin of abducting thousands of Ukrainian children
Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky take part in a meeting during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Prime Minister Mark Carney accused Russia...
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🥚“Children are being falsely labelled with Russian citizenship and passports,” the Prime Minister told a UN event being held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
“A decree to fast track the citizenship process for abducted children has been signed by Putin himself.”
“A decree to fast track the citizenship process for abducted children has been signed by Putin himself.”