#Law Reform
Target:
British Columbia MLA Honourable Tom Christensen, Minister of Children and Family Development
Region:
Canada

We request that the birth mother's revocation period be reduced form the current 30 days to ten days or less.

The thirty days is too long and puts a great deal of unnecessary stress upon the birth mother/father, the adoptive parents and child or children during the intense 30 days of uncertainty in which a birth mother could change her mind.

British Columbia has one of the longest revocation periods of any jurisdiction in North America. This does not serve the birth mother who has made her decision and causes her to agonize over her decision for thirty days.

It does not serve the adoptive parents who are worried their child will be taken away and it does not serve the child who needs consistency and stability.

We ask that you review the adoption legislation regarding the time lines for consent and revocation periods, reduce the wait time for the birth mother to sign her adoption consent from ten days to one day and also reduce the adoption revocation period from 30 days from the time of child's birth to ten days or less.

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The Change the BC Adoption Legislation petition to British Columbia MLA Honourable Tom Christensen, Minister of Children and Family Development was written by Elana Stocker and is in the category Law Reform at GoPetition.