Bitter Winds
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Uploaded by enchantedwood on Aug 25, 2007
More than 85,000 women lost their children to adoption in the State of NSW, Australia during the 1950's, 60's & 70's. I was one of these women.
"Bitter Winds" from the "Bad Girl" CD.
Song, guitar and vocal, camera, artwork, direction & edit: copyright Lina Eve 2007
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As an adoptee, this truely touched my soul...I know my mother must have felt this way.... thanks for this window into what a mother's truths may be...
Sunshyn
4 years ago 4
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great song and so true to the human rights abuses of the adoption system
4 years ago 4
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Thankyou from the bottom of my heart. Pure words and so very true.
Bless you xxx
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Lina so glad I came to your site to view this video. Very touching. Take care Marea McEwen xx
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Beautiful. So many mothers coerced into surrendering their babies. It breaks my heart. I am adopted; this coersion of women was still going on when I was born in 1985. It still happens today :-(
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My mother ODed 9 months after they took me- a victim of the adoption system in Perth Western Australia, 1958.. :'(
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I was given up too...my mother coerced, broken down, abandoned by my father, her own family, and by the rest of society. She was taken to Catholic Charites Hospital for unwed mother so that the Catholics could screw with some more lives...
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My birth mother could have written this song. This is exactly what she went through. I have been reunited with both sides of my birth family and the best part has been getting to know my mother and finally having that connection with someone I have so much in common with and can identify with. I am finally found and no longer feel like a lost soul all alone. Even though there was a lot of abuse in my adopted family, I had some really wonderful, loving people and was given a gift . No regrets
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Great video Beautiful Song! Amazing~! <3 Rachel 12/8/1983
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I related to this so much, as one who lost a child in NSW in 1975 out of St Anthony;s Home for Unmarried Mothers after giving birth at St Margaret's Hospital for Women - described a major source of babies for adoption. Thank you, it was healing for me.
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Beautiful & heartbreaking. Thank you.
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Lina~~ Oh God! How similar our stories, and I was in America. Me and thousands upon thousands of girls in the "Baby Scoop Era". Thank you for adding to our voices -- for acknowledgement for our loss and for justice and equity for our children.
Priscilla Lost my daughter to adoption in Arizona 1964
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So sorry for your loss. My Japanese mother was forced to give me up when i was a year old. My father was a married American serviceman and i was adopted by US military family. i finally found her after 26 years but i cannot get past her feelings of guilt to re-establish a relationship. It's getting better after another 24 years. A special place in hell for lying seducers and judgmental societies/families who contribute to such sadness.
skyedancer3 2 years ago 2
Society's lack understanding about adoption issues often leads to the mother and the adopted person being made to feel guilty for wanting to know about their family story. Something most people take for granted.
In a more humane society, pregnant women would be given support and the needs for family connenction for adoptees would be honored. We have a long way to go before the rights of women and children the world over becomes a reality.
enchantedwood 2 years ago
Lina, this is a beautiful song. I am one of these children - except, I'm on the other side of the planet, in Denmark.
I found my birth mother a few months ago. Sadly I found that she had passed away in April this year, only 51 years old (I'm 36). I found out that she had been thinking about me every day since I was born. I hope one day that you'll find your daughter or that she'll find you.
pallekaastrup 4 years ago
So sorry to hear you didn't have a chance to meet your mother. Yes, she thought of you every day. Mothers don't forget. I hope maybe you will meet other family members. I had a reunion with my daughter when she was 26, but not long after, then she pulled back and didn't want contact for more than a decade. For the last few years we've had tentative contact once more. Adoption has really damaged our relationship.
enchantedwood 4 years ago
Oh, I forgot to mention that I truly love my new sister and brother and I will never let go.
pallekaastrup 4 years ago
Very moved to hear you have located other family members who have welcomed you! I hope your story will encourage other adoptees who may be putting off reunion not to put it off any longer.
enchantedwood 4 years ago