Kudos: Adoptions Aftermath

From time to time, REFORM Talk will offer our kudos to particularly insightful posts. This one discusses forced and illegal adoptions.

“Just last year, Australia offered a State apology to women who lost their children through its forced adoption policies. It offered its apology on the back of an investigation that found adoption rates among unmarried mothers hit 60% in the late 1960s.

By contrast, in Ireland, the corresponding figure for 1967 was 97%.

Adoption rates for unmarried women did not fall below 60% at any point between 1962 and 1974.”

Read it at Adoptions Aftermath[The Irish Examiner 6/10/14 by Conall Ó Fátharta]