Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historical forced adoptions in England
By Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin
Janet Greenlees, Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University
In a religious culture rooted in shame, up to half a million children in the UK and Ireland were put up for adoption without their mothers’ consent.
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