Author Archives: sofie gregory

‘It’s just a skin wound’ she told me. ‘It’s just a skin wound’ I told myself and anyone else who would listen. ‘How did you get here’ she asks me. ‘I drove my van’. She looks surprised. ‘You shouldn’t drive … Continue reading →

I have the opportunity to visit a coastal town in the south-east of South Australia.  I am beaming beyond belief at the opportunity to be back in the area.  I’m thinking of going down there this weekend to try to … Continue reading →

I am adopted. Once I would have said ‘I was adopted’.  But since I began writing my story with IdentityRites I have been corrected by the precision which comes from writing.  My mother signed papers to allow my adoption on … Continue reading →

(Share this with anyone who thinks adoption is rescuing a child from poverty) One day I met a beautiful man who brought me to tears. He told me he and his wife had been in a foreign country.  Outside a … Continue reading →

Perhaps like the psychiatrist Paul Sunderland once did, you wonder why a particular acquaintance of yours keeps ‘banging on’ about being adopted.  Perhaps you could then acquaint yourself with some of the evidence of adoptees’ troubled lives.  The scar of … Continue reading →

ADOPTION AND ADDICTION  –  REMEMBERED NOT RECALLED PAUL SUNDERLAND                               notes from LIFEWORKS LECTURE Adoption is a word that does not describe what has happened to a child that results in them coming into services at a very high rate.  It is a … Continue reading →

MARY GAUTHIER   When I began writing songs I knew way in the back of my mind (so deep that I can’t say I actually knew, it was more like a whispered inkling), that someday I’d write a concept record … Continue reading →

WHO IS MY MOTHER? Birth Mothers:  Surrogate Mothers:  Relinquishing Mothers: Adoptive Mothers:  Who do you think has a legal right to own a child? The child is a person in its own right.  It cannot be owned.  It can only … Continue reading →