The women haunted by forced adoptions looking for answers | ITV News
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- In the decades after the war, nearly 200,000 unmarried women were forced and shamed into giving up their babies for adoption in England and Wales.
This is the harrowing story of mothers still traumatised by the cruelty they faced for getting pregnant out of wedlock, and their decades-long search for justice.
Between 1949 and the mid 1970s, thousands of women were sent away to mother and baby homes run by churches and the state - places of secrecy, cruelty and even abuse - where babies were put up for adoption or died through poor care.
ITV News has investigated one home in south Cumbria. Burial records obtained through a Freedom of Information request revealed that 45 babies are buried in unmarked graves close to the institution.
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"There is nothing more inhumane than man's inhumanity toward man."
This has went on in Ireland for years it’s absolutely heartbreaking
. . . so cruel and heartbreaking. So wrong on every level. Edit: The people who allowed this to happen should have been jailed.
The church and state - always monster
So, none were Leagally Adopted? Seriously!
This happened to me at age 17 in 1988 ,still don't know what happened to my baby 😢
This happened to my mother in the early 70s here in the USA. My mother was sent to an "Unwed mother home" in Fort Worth, TX, and forced to give my sister up. My mother then dropped out of high school and began using drugs. Absolutely horrible. I got pregnant in high school as well, but my mother let me decide what to do. I kept my son and raised him well. He's now 26 and doing amazing.
AND ITS HAPPENING TODAY WITH FAMILY BEEN DESTROYED
And where are the fathers of these babies?
Someone I knew was forced to give up her baby when she was 16. She never got over it. Had a mental breakdown and was sent to a mental health clinic. Many years she attempted suicide around the birthday of her child. She died at 36. Never had other children. Never got over having hers ripped from her.
It made me cry, so sad for everybody involved❤
Sadly , it was a lie that the most loving thing you could do for your child was to give him up. yesterday, somebody told me he was adopted and cruelly treated thereafter. It was not quite as bad for me, but my adoptive mother probably had a personality disorder, while my natural mother, as I later discovered, was gentle and bright.
Thank you for telling this story though I cannot watch it. See, I am one of the children that went through this, and the resulting adoption was bad enough to leave me with PTSD. I will never know who they were.
Still goes on.
Wow - thank God my father 36 married my mum 18. I recently found out he dated my grandmother first!
So saddd😭😭😭😭
Magdalene laundries ... there is a song by The Chieftains about his. Ireland faced the same situation. Many of the babies from IReland were sent to the US, Canada, and Australia.
You just know money must have changed hands. It was never about what was best for baby.
😢😢😢
My birth mother came from Wales to Burnham where there was a big hospital with a mother and baby unit. I have never made contact with her but found out she was Italian and my father Chinese Uighur x