When your children are little, someone can post on social media.
‘please find my long lost brother X, now called XYS. He was born X and we think lives in the X area.’
if this happens. You should report it using the Social media channels reporting system and it will be removed. Also. Report it to your post adoption team. You might also feel the need for some protection which your neighbourhood police can advise you about.
this is because under adoption it is only contact on specific terms until the child reaches the age of 18.
we have had several incidents over the years here that have involved various people, often not birth family but decide to jump in anyway (knowing nothing or very little.) below 18 it’s by en large illegal.
but what I really did not expect is it to all fire up when our adoptees are in their 20s all of a sudden. We have had no ongoing interest from birth parents actually but there’s an enormous birth family who are all really messed up, I just didn’t imagine in my wildest dreams I’d be trying to sort this sort of *^%# out when our adoptees are this age, not even at home!
These ‘long lost brother’ type posts on Social media are not illegal. But harassment is. take screen shots of everything. Use the social media channel to report and then block accounts that you are concerned about.
If you are frightened or worried or intimidated ring the POLICE. Use their general reporting number but if birth family or people on their behalf threaten or turn up etc dial 999.
Can adoption U.K. do something about these dreadful social media posts that people are unwittingly sharing? They destroy lives.
