Mother-and-baby homes: 'They called us fallen women, bad women'

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'They took our dignity. They took our rights. They took our freedoms' Reliving the experience of a mother-and-baby home in Northern Ireland

Adele is almost 70 - but even now she said the smell of lavender wood polish triggers a memory rewind of more than half a century.She had been taken in her parish priest's car after discovering she was pregnant."They said I could no longer use my ordinary name, and I was given a name to use while I was there," she explained.

After a few months she was told the adoption arrangements were in place and she was to get the baby ready. "Then I carried him down a corridor, handed him to a nun, and that was the last I saw of him for forty years."'Guilty secrets'Later she married and had more children."I had so many feelings, it was frightening, it was exciting, it was upsetting.

 

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What about the others in England? Why are they left out? England was just as bad for my mother.I was lucky to survive adoption, abortion, still abandoned by my father, who had money, family of his own.. refused to accept his responsibilities to his death.

Sounds like the I.R.A

'We, the babies, were the physical embodiment of sin. We weren't regarded as being worthy of love and affection, because we were spoiled fruits.' I think that's just nonsense to be honest. Some of the most moralising people might have believed that, but it wasn't the norm. Sorry.

That's god for you. I don't think he cares really

They should just re-brand the BBC the History Channel.

Thought they were referring to lockdowns.

Sounds like Gilead

thank you very much for your work

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