Posted on Jun 24, 2021

'This is where my baby was taken from me'

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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Tens of thousands of women in Scotland were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Now they want a formal apology from the government.

Duncan Kennedy spoke to Elspeth Ross about what she went through as a young woman and the lost decades without her son.

'This is where my baby was taken from me'

Posted from bbc.com

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Posted 3 y ago

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Posted 3 y ago

What a tragedy. Unmarried mothers were very stigmatized the and even so to this day.

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SPC Jesse Davis

Posted 3 y ago

Scotland has had enough. Time for independence.

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Lt Col Charlie Brown

Posted 3 y ago

And these were closed adoptions, often with records destroyed so that the mothers could never find their children

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