The care-leavers who faced “abhorrent” racism fighting to be acknowledged
Black and mixed heritage adoptees and care-leavers who faced “abhorrent” racism and prejudice during the forced adoption era want their lifelong trauma and suffering to be acknowledged by the church and state.
Between 1949 and 1976 hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were forced to put their children up for adoption, simply because they were unmarried.
Mothers of mixed heritage children were told they had no choice and their babies would be “better off” adopted.
The reality was that the adoption and care system at that time deemed them as “un-adoptable” and “undesirable”, meaning many grew up in orphanages and children’s home, suffering abuse and neglect.
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