Erica Newman: Maori adoptees finding their turangawaewae - a podcast by RNZ

from 2022-02-05T09:40

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The 1955 Adoption Act allowed adoptive parents to sever ties with a child's birth parents, and left few options for adoptees to access information about them. For Maori who went through the system as children and their descendants, this often means having no knowledge of their whakapapa.