A project improving policy and law for children in the UK and beyond. Our Voice of the Child Podcasts feature experts, families and campaigners talking about how politics, law and current affairs affect children.
In this video podcast, Moses Farrow, the adopted son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, talks with child rights journalist Natasha Phillips about his childhood, how adoption has impacted his life including an attempted suicide, and why he believes the current practice is a form of human trafficking.
The interview is part of the new “Dark Side of Adoption” podcast series, looking at the almost never-discussed effects of adoption on children. The video version of the interview can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5rkiOwhkf0
16 Aug 2023
Is UK Reporting on Adoption Biased? Dele Alli, the Rescue Narrative, and “Reunion P*rn"
In this Voice of the Child (VOTC) podcast, adoption activist Paul Brian Tovey talks about star footballer Dele Alli’s adoption claims, his complaint to the BBC for their reporting of the story, and his conversation on X with Radio 5 journalist and adoptee Nicky Campbell, whose programme about Dele and adoption caused a stir among adult adoptees on social media.
Paul also talks about “reunion p*rn”, why many adoptees dislike the rescue narrative found in adoption, and his own campaign helping adoptees abused in childhood to heal.
Speaking to VOTC, Paul said, “My worry about the media is that they’re mirroring the self repression that has been wished upon some adoptees. The adoptees that want to speak out who’ve had wonderful lives they’re just going to come out with it, but the ones that have a lot of pain - pain is very difficult to talk about.”
“We need to get our heads together in some ways that satisfy each other, so that we can get to some more of the information about the negative sides of adoption. Everyone else in life has the human right to walk away from a relationship that hasn’t been very good, and adoptees don’t. There’s something wrong there.”
19 Nov 2021
The Best Interests of the Child Review - Meet the Team
Welcome to the Best Interests of the Child Review, the first parent-led review of children's social care in England and Wales.
In our first podcast the team at BIC introduce themselves, and talk about why they decided to launch the review. They also explain what their first publication "Children and Their Families Have Rights" is about.
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