Empty cradles: medical authority and disappeared children

Many have been looking for their children since they were removed from their care, refusing to believe they had died. Since 2013 the Amram Association has worked with a team of volunteers to collect and translate into English more than 500 testimonies from the families. Racialised assumptions of wha...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 400; no. 10361; pp. 1398 - 1399
Main Author Harman, Sophie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Limited 22.10.2022
Subjects
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Art exhibits
Children
Children & youth
Families & family life
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Low income groups
Medical profession
Nurses
Orphanages
Orphans
Parents & parenting
Brunei
Israel
United Kingdom > UK
Africa
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Summary:Many have been looking for their children since they were removed from their care, refusing to believe they had died. Since 2013 the Amram Association has worked with a team of volunteers to collect and translate into English more than 500 testimonies from the families. Racialised assumptions of what constitutes good parenting and who knows best for a child cut across reproductive justice debates worldwide, defining who can have a baby and who should care for it. [...]children continue to disappear. According to van Doore, “Much like the disappeared children of Israel, children living in these orphanages today are often removed from their families under false pretences, have their names and identities changed to prevent them being found, and some are illicitly adopted internationally.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01992-4