The women haunted by forced adoptions looking for answers | ITV News

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  • 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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 48

  • @maryreardon6512
    @maryreardon6512 22 дні тому +33

    "There is nothing more inhumane than man's inhumanity toward man."

  • @helenmooney2772
    @helenmooney2772 22 дні тому +25

    This has went on in Ireland for years it’s absolutely heartbreaking

    • @Fcutdlady
      @Fcutdlady 21 день тому +6

      I'm an irish adoptee born in the mid 70s. . I back up your comment 100% .

    • @behemothsbaby
      @behemothsbaby 21 день тому +3

      And the laundries… So utterly cruel!

    • @Exiled.New.Yorker
      @Exiled.New.Yorker 6 днів тому +2

      In Canada as well, and in the US, but i think to a lesser degree. The Church was more focused on the Native residential schools over here.

  • @mattier.9095
    @mattier.9095 20 днів тому +9

    The church and state - always monster

  • @panda216
    @panda216 20 днів тому +10

    This happened to me at age 17 in 1988 ,still don't know what happened to my baby 😢

    • @DespotofDelaware
      @DespotofDelaware 20 днів тому +4

      Do DNA and look for your son or daughter... they might be looking for you!

    • @user-fg2ts3wq9q
      @user-fg2ts3wq9q 18 днів тому

      I am so sorry this has happened to you. God bless you ❤

    • @panda216
      @panda216 18 днів тому

      @@user-fg2ts3wq9q thank you

    • @JimiBegbaaji
      @JimiBegbaaji 18 днів тому +1

      That recently? 😮

    • @pine_needle_tea
      @pine_needle_tea 16 днів тому

      23andme...

  • @msjannd4
    @msjannd4 20 днів тому +5

    . . . so cruel and heartbreaking. So wrong on every level. Edit: The people who allowed this to happen should have been jailed.

  • @chekotaythefirstrochester9094
    @chekotaythefirstrochester9094 22 дні тому +12

    So, none were Leagally Adopted? Seriously!

  • @heatherrobles1194
    @heatherrobles1194 15 днів тому +3

    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.

  • @peggygraham6129
    @peggygraham6129 21 день тому +8

    And where are the fathers of these babies?

    • @JimiBegbaaji
      @JimiBegbaaji 18 днів тому +1

      The Insight channel here on UA-cam has a panel discussion devoted to the fathers of forced adoptions.

  • @cryton69
    @cryton69 21 день тому +6

    AND ITS HAPPENING TODAY WITH FAMILY BEEN DESTROYED

  • @bipolarcollie
    @bipolarcollie 6 днів тому +1

    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.
    We've all gotten it wrong for thousands of years. Mary was likely 14 -15 when she got pregnant.
    Back then getting pregnant out of wedlock could get you stoned to death or, at best ostracized, kicked out of your family and a lifetime of begging or prostitution. Joseph knew the baby wasn't his & planned to quietly end their engagement. Luckily an angel appeared to him and he stayed.
    The message we ignore is that babies are gifts. They belong with their mothers unless thats absolutely not possible.

  • @mariannehancock8282
    @mariannehancock8282 21 день тому +9

    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.
    I wasn't aware of the excess deaths, but there was physical neglect between birth and adoption, which our adoptive parents mentioned quite nonchalantly. And for this, we were expected to be grateful.

  • @user-fg2ts3wq9q
    @user-fg2ts3wq9q 18 днів тому +3

    It made me cry, so sad for everybody involved❤

  • @davidorkin3399
    @davidorkin3399 21 день тому +2

    Still goes on.

  • @chichiangel2478
    @chichiangel2478 18 днів тому +2

    So saddd😭😭😭😭

  • @loganskiwyse7823
    @loganskiwyse7823 9 днів тому

    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.

  • @hazelmccloy1136
    @hazelmccloy1136 3 дні тому

    Wow - thank God my father 36 married my mum 18. I recently found out he dated my grandmother first!

  • @sandradolls5682
    @sandradolls5682 22 дні тому +3

    😢😢😢

  • @DakotaCelt1
    @DakotaCelt1 20 днів тому +1

    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.

  • @JimiBegbaaji
    @JimiBegbaaji 18 днів тому +2

    You just know money must have changed hands. It was never about what was best for baby.

  • @joyxi3707
    @joyxi3707 16 днів тому

    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

  • @livingoutsidethebubble
    @livingoutsidethebubble 20 днів тому +2

    Many women have been and are still being pressured by their families to terminate.

  • @jackiecampbell7903
    @jackiecampbell7903 22 дні тому +3

    😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @sheb181
    @sheb181 20 днів тому +1

    same happened in spain..mostly catholic regimes..

  • @venetia6296
    @venetia6296 22 дні тому +2

    We can’t always get what we want. Heartbreaking

  • @Krisgroot-h4k
    @Krisgroot-h4k 22 дні тому

    Eminem - soldier 🧠

  • @JelMain
    @JelMain 18 днів тому

    I rebelled against the ArchBosh for replacing the Coronation oath of fealty by the Lords with one from the People, which summarily did away with 300 years of Constitution and sought to return us to ecclesiastical feudalism. The 8th Capter of the Gospel of Matthew has much to say about such, and it's not pretty: Chapter 18:8 makes it clear that there is no forgiveness for child abuse, so why does it still exist?

  • @PeaceOfGrace
    @PeaceOfGrace 8 днів тому

    Abortion doesn’t allow reunions…😢💔

  • @nightowl6260
    @nightowl6260 16 днів тому

    As usual, the males have no responsibility...