Adoptees across the UK have been speaking out for years — not against love or family, but against the constraints, violations, and lifelong impact that adoption can carry. We've spoken about identity loss, silencing, and the ways adoption systems have failed to recognise our rights.

We watched as reports were written, inquiries launched, and TV dramas produced — yet our voices remained absent. When the UK investigated institutional abuse in the care system, adoption was repeatedly left out. For those of us adopted as children, now grown, we listened as Scotland promised to “keep the Promise” to care-experienced people — and yet adoption remains largely invisible in policy, memory, and public understanding.

When inquiries into historical forced adoptions began, we hoped this would be the moment adoptees were finally heard. But many of us have been left feeling dismissed, unsupported, and misunderstood — spoken about, but not spoken with.

Still, we are here. And we are not finished.

We invite you to learn about the history of the Adoption Rights UK campaign and follow the progress of adoptees working together — not just to be heard, but to change the future. We believe in a world where adoptee voices are respected, our truths are held with care, and our rights are fully recognised.

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