Cries for justice: Forced adoptions demand acknowledgement

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Cries for justice: Forced adoptions demand acknowledgement

Barbara Docherty

Friday 1 November 2024, 04:44 PM

A newborn yawns, they're swaddled in white and lying on a white blanket with blue and pink stripes

The trauma, grief and lasting health impact of forced adoptions is long overdue for recognition [Image: Tim Bish on Unsplash]

“These were the women whose babies had been snatched away at birth...placed in forced adoptions and now considered to be one of the worst injustices i

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