ChatterBank1 min ago
A Tragedy All Round,
this is an appalling story, and one that should be out in the open, upwards of 250 thousand women over three decades forced to give up their babies, because they were born out of wedlock. I watched the news on BBC, where i couldn't find a link but the Guardian has run it.
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Sqad, I'm so sorry, I hope I did not offend you,I had no idea of your personal circumstances. I chose my words incorrectly and were probably lost in translation. I meant the 'poor' children in the fact it was a shame they were brought up not knowing that their mother was actually their grandmother and their mother a sister. The fact the child was kept within the family speaks volumes on how much the child was wanted and cared for despite the stigma attached to a child born out of wedlock. xxx
bhg, did you read my answer @ 0843? Many children were treated appallingly for over 75 years. That is part of the on-going Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse and was the first item to be dealt with by that inquiry. One of the people who gave evidence was Margaret Humphries, who is still the head of The Child Migrants' Trust. You really need to watch the film called Oranges and Sunshine to get an idea of what successive governments and so-called child care institutions got up to in the name of child well-being.
emma...strict upbringing, I was a bit of a handful, corrected at home and at school by corporal punishment, grandad was a union man,N.U.R, Labour through and through and was described as "working class"........seemed a normal life.
It changed when I arrived at Medical School and realised I had a lot to learn about life lol.
It changed when I arrived at Medical School and realised I had a lot to learn about life lol.
Yes emmie^^^ times have changed. All those children who were adopted back then were at least able to live out their lives. Nowadays they would have been killed off before they were born -aborted and thrown away.
Child abuse does still carry on today. One instance that sticks in my mind is that little boy whose birth parents bet him so badly when he was a baby that he had to have both legs amputated! He has a lifelong condition to suffer but they will be out of prison soon .
Every era has its faults and no society is perfect.
Child abuse does still carry on today. One instance that sticks in my mind is that little boy whose birth parents bet him so badly when he was a baby that he had to have both legs amputated! He has a lifelong condition to suffer but they will be out of prison soon .
Every era has its faults and no society is perfect.
Folk should also be aware that many, very many of these babies and children were not adopted into loving homes to live a better life.
Many were sold by the religious orders and they weren't fussy who they sold the baby to and gave no thought to the future of that baby once the money was given to them.
Toddlers and older children suffered greatly both in the homes and with the "parents" they were sold to. You won't need me to expand on that.
Many were sold by the religious orders and they weren't fussy who they sold the baby to and gave no thought to the future of that baby once the money was given to them.
Toddlers and older children suffered greatly both in the homes and with the "parents" they were sold to. You won't need me to expand on that.
It has pretty much stopped in society generally. There may be small sections of society where it still happens. My question is why it stopped.
I think, in whatever the answer is to my question, you'll find why it's felt by some that the Government should apologise.
Contraception certainly helped, but there are still plenty of "accidents out of wedlock" these days, where the mother is not required to give up the baby.
I think, in whatever the answer is to my question, you'll find why it's felt by some that the Government should apologise.
Contraception certainly helped, but there are still plenty of "accidents out of wedlock" these days, where the mother is not required to give up the baby.
in those days it was the church, parents, grandparents who said that babies should be given away for adoption, and no not all went to decent homes. I would think that in the current Asian communities it would be largely frowned upon for a young woman to have a child out of wedlock - perhaps others too.
