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Mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, Galway View of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, County Galway. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (officially the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) was a judicial commission of investigation, established in 2015 by the Irish government to ...
A maternity home, or maternity housing program, is a form of supportive housing provided to pregnant women. Maternity housing programs support a woman in need of a stable home environment to reach her goals in a variety of areas including education, employment, financial stability, prenatal care, and more.
Far fewer Black unmarried women placed children for adoption in the Baby Scoop Era, and many maternity homes at the time were segregated. Some maternity home residents never held their infants.
222 children died in Bethany Home between 1922–49 and 219 were buried in unmarked graves in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold's Cross, Dublin. [16] In 2010, a memorial meeting was held in the cemetery to remember them, in attendance were some former residents and relatives of residents along with public figures such as independent Senator David Norris, Joe Costello, TD, and Labour Equality ...
Maeve O'Rourke is an Irish human rights lawyer. [1] She is known for her involvement in seeking access for survivors and adopted people to their own personal data, and the publication of appropriately anonymised administrative files, contained in 'historical' abuse archives in Ireland including the archives of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, the Ryan Commission that ...
Many children were removed from single mothers, often under the assumption that these women were unfit to raise their children due to the social stigma surrounding unmarried mothers. Religious institutions, particularly the Catholic Church, played a significant role in these adoptions, operating institutions like mother and baby homes. These ...
A single mother said she was left “traumatised” after she was stopped at an airport by police for suspected child trafficking.. Bridgetta Tomarchio, 45, was travelling with her four-year-old ...