{"id":25830,"date":"2026-05-13T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25830\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:28:24","slug":"the-care-leavers-who-faced-abhorrent-racism-fighting-to-be-acknowledged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25830\/","title":{"rendered":"The care-leavers who faced &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; racism fighting to be acknowledged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The care-leavers who faced &quot;abhorrent&quot; racism fighting to be acknowledged\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewrKJfDLWW8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe care-leavers who faced &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; racism fighting to be acknowledged<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBlack and mixed heritage adoptees and care-leavers who faced &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; racism and prejudice during the forced adoption era want their lifelong trauma and suffering to be acknowledged by the church and state.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1949 and 1976 hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were forced to put their children up for adoption, simply because they were unmarried.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers of mixed heritage children were told they had no choice and their babies would be &#8220;better off&#8221; adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The reality was that the adoption and care system at that time deemed them as &#8220;un-adoptable&#8221; and &#8220;undesirable&#8221;, meaning many grew up in orphanages and children\u2019s home, suffering abuse and neglect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The care-leavers who faced &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; racism fighting to be acknowledged Black and mixed heritage adoptees and care-leavers who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[27797,380,379,736],"class_list":{"0":"post-25830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-itv-news","8":"tag-forced-adoption","9":"tag-itv","10":"tag-itv-news","11":"tag-racism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116568010417294834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}