‘I fight for adoption rights every day’

AS the campaign to improve the rights of adopted people gathers momentum, one of the founders of the Adoption Rights Alliance has written to the Minister for the Children reminding him how every day of her life is spent fighting for those whose rights are being routinely denied.

Claire McGettrick was 37 on Monday. For 10 years she has fought on behalf of adopted people who are fighting to get basic details about their birth parents, including family medical history.

The Adoption Rights Alliance is one of a number of children’s and adoption groups who have helped formed a coalition to campaign for the information and tracing rights of the country’s estimated 42,000 adopted people and their families.