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From the 1950's to the 1970's babies were frequently taken away from unmarried mothers without any other reason simply because unmarried mothers were considered unsuitable parents. [13] [14] The Catholic Church, Church of England and the Salvation Army ran, “mother and baby homes” and UK adoption agencies. [15]
From 1945 to 1973, it is estimated that up to 4 million parents in the United States had children placed for adoption, with 2 million during the 1960s alone. [2] Annual numbers for non-relative adoptions increased from an estimated 33,800 in 1951 to a peak of 89,200 in 1970, then quickly declined to an estimated 47,700 in 1975.
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 Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (also known as St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or locally simply as The Home), [1] which operated between 1925 and 1961 in the town of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers ...
An estimated 185,000 children were taken away from unmarried mothers and adopted between 1949 and 1976 in England and Wales. Government should apologise to unmarried mothers ‘railroaded’ into ...
Some argue that women were branded as both a mother and a criminal if they happened to have a child out of wedlock. The choices the women at the time had were very limited. They had no social welfare system; therefore, many resorted to prostitution or entered these mother-and-child homes, also known as Magdalene laundries. [21]
The Bessborough Mother & Baby Home, (also known as the Bessborough Sacred Heart Home) was a home for mothers and their children that operated in Blackrock, County Cork, Ireland, from 1922 until 1998. It was included in an investigation by the Irish government following the discovery of hundreds of bodies at Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in ...
The Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home (also known as the Sacred Hearts Home) [1] that operated between 1935 and 1971 in the town of Castlepollard, County Westmeath, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children in the former Kinturk Demesne or Manor previously owned by the 'Old English' Pollard family.
Amateur historian Catherine Corless conducted research into babies born at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in her hometown of Tuam, Galway.She collected data for several years, and published several articles in local newspapers in 2010, 2013, and 2014; her research suggested that the bodies of 796 babies and children may have been interred in an unrecorded mass grave at the Tuam Baby Home ...