Activist, Search & Support
- Adoption – finding out about your birth parents–Obtaining an original birth certificate, Christ Church Libraries
- Adoptions in New Zealand Message Board, ancestry,com
- Finding your birth parents
- New Zealand Jigsaw
- The Adult Adoptee Support Group–Whangārei adultadoptee2019@gmail.com
- View Court Adoption Records
News
- Government passes adoption bill under urgency,RNZ, September 21, 2025
- Government passes adoption bill under urgency RNZ News, September 21, 2025
2021
- Outdated adoption law set for change, Newsroom, February 18, 2021
- Adopted children have been left in limbo, without identity, as successive governments dither, Stuff, July 10, 2021
2020
- Calls to change ‘outdated’ adoption law in New Zealand,RNZ, March 22, 2020
- Mummy Dearest, Newsroom, October 13, 2020
- Taking Māori babies after birth ‘cruel and inhumane’ – Māori midwives head. RNZ, October 27. 2020
- Māori babies ‘doubly colonised’ by closed adoption process – researcher,Stuff.November 23, 2020
- New Zealand child abuse inquiry finds quarter of a million harmed in state and faith-based care. Reuters. December 15, 2020
2019
- Whangārei woman Elizabeth Wakelin behind adult adoptee support group, Northern Advocate, January 28, 2019
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More than 220 children abused in Oranga Tamariki care in 2018, Stuff, March 15, 2019
- New Zealand’s own ‘stolen generation’: The babies taken by Oranga Tamariki.Stuff, June 12, 2019
- Yes, we are the Stolen Generations,Stuff, June 13, 2019
- How closed adoption robbed Māori children of their identity, RNZ, July 14, ,2019
- Abuse inquiry: Māori babies deemed ‘bad’ babies and adopted to white families, tribunal hears, Stuff, October 30, 2019
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Adoption in New Zealand: My children have a right to know their birth parents, Stuff, December 3, 2019
- 2017
- Closed adoptions a form of violence, NZME, November 10, 2017
Other
- Adoption Act, 1955, November 26, 2018
- dopted Child’s Rights Against Birth Parents’ Estate, Fortune Manning Lawyers
- History of Adoption in New Zealand
- History of Transracial Adoption: A New Zealand Perspective by Erica Newman, American Indian Quarterly,
- Volume 37, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2013
Updated October4, 2025
