I had a friend who became pregnant at 16. That was in 1968. She had a daughter. Her parents stood by her and she kept her daughter. 2 years later she became pregnant again and gave birth to another daughter. Again her parents stood by her. She went on to get married but not to the father of her children. She has lived a very good life and is now a great grandmother. Not all parents are heartless.

I was abandoned at the hospital in the early 60s by a married woman & husband. Decades later, I found my birth mother's family. They initially welcomed me, but ultimately, they rejected me. The trauma of being abandoned occurred multiple times. As a teen, my baby was taken away. There is no recovery from abandonment, and it leaves deep-rooted issues. I cried for these women who had such aggregous actions dealt on them and pray they too can find an ounce of peace.

Unbelievable cruelty. I am an adoptee, born in a Church Adoption Society Home in 1943. My birth mother was with me for several days. I am so sad for these ladies, and hope they all found happiness after such trauma.

As an adopted child from 1967, this brought me to tears. I had an amazing childhood and had loving adopted parents, who could not have done more. I wonder though how much they were aware of this terrible scandal that was going on behind closed doors. Sadly adoption breeds secrets for all those concerned. I am currently searching for my birth parents now after 51 years, I just want to hug my Birth Mum and tell here there is nothing to forgive her for and I love and respect her for being her.

Happened to me. My nursing baby Forcefully adopted over “risk of future emotional harm” I was a poor expat in the Uk without family support. Never hurt my nursing baby. Happened in 2013 They PUNISH the poor and vulnerable! They are sick and evil!

The worst thing is, that this hasn't even stopped. Children are taken on the flimsiest of pretexts. More children are in "care" now than ever before. 😞

My grandma has a daughter but while she was given strong sedatives by doctors her own sister signed away her daughter. She searched for her for years. Her daughter was nearly forty years old and had two small children when grandma found her finally. Grandma had been been attacked by several men one day walking home and her sister decided she wouldn’t want to raise a child that came from such circumstances. It shattered my grandmas heart.

I got adopted in 1970 at three months old. My adoptive parents are amazing and I had a wonderful upbringing. But I heard on radio four today about this forced adoption. My heart sank because I never knew. These women should never have gone through all this trauma all they wanted to do was love them. There own family’s saying you’ve bought shame on us just because they were not married. One lady was allowed to pick her son up from the nursery until it was adopted. She went one morning to get her son and he was gone. She asked the nurse and the nhs nurse told the mum he’s gone your never see him again. She’s still broken now. This made me cry. I’m so glad things are different now. I’m determined to track my biological mum down now and hopefully give her a hug.

I would love to have any of these ladies as my mum.

There are disadvantages of being adopted such as adopted children may experience identity issues and struggle with feelings of abandonment or rejection from their birth parents. Its important that people educate themselves about their adopted kids culture and treat them equality.

Its still a thing. I would know i was in care my entire life and my daughters were stolen from me even though I fought for them.

I have just discovered that I have a half sister. She was born in 1959. My mother has wanted to tell me for so long, but for most of her life (since she was 15, when she had her baby), she's believed she was a terrible person, and that if I knew about her pregnancy and the birth of her first child, that I'd never speak to her again. Mum is 79 now, and has lived with the thought that she's bad all this time. My heart breaks for my mum, and I am angry that my sister was taken away from our family because mum was too young to know what was going on. It was human trafficking plain and simple. I am working on finding my half sister but the authorities are already throwing up roadblocks. No one will help in case it's seen as an admission of culpability. Not much has changed since 1959.

This documentary is heartbreaking,for the mothers but I guess enlightening for me. I was an adopted baby in Scotland in the early 60’s. My parents, my adoptive parents were loving, hard working people. My brother, my adopted brother who was 3 years older than me never accepted that he had been adopted. We were never spoiled, but never neglected and we had a good childhood, years later when I was told that I’d been adopted, it was as if my heart stopped, only for a second, I looked at Mum & Dad as though they were strangers , but after I processed that thought they explained to me that after many miscarriages they had decided to adopt their family. They made me feel special, chosen but their hearts were broken by my brothers reaction. I felt, and still feel, proud of my parents and my life, they shaped me, I was part of them and I’ve never looked at it in any other way. After my parents died, I started to feel curious about who I’d first been. Mum and Dad always said that I could find out information and they always supported me but I’d never felt the need. Anyway, I applied for my original birth certificate, which told me who I’d been and the spooky thing was, I was living on one of Scotland beautiful peninsula’s, and when I stood on the coast line and looked over the water, there were houses on a hillside…..I’d been born in one of those houses. That’s all I’ve found out and I’m happy with that, and consider myself very lucky to have had the love of the Mum and Dad I had.

I was adopted in the 1950’s. My birth mother was in her 30’s, but single and the family breadwinner. I did track her down when I was in my 50’s. She spoke to me on the phone, giving me her medical history and told me she’d put it behind her and she didn’t want to meet me

I was a victim of a FA...ruined my life forever and now I'm living my last years mentally distroyed bcoz of this evil and corrupt practice :(

I was adopted in 1971 born in 1970 I had a good upbringing but not a day goes by without me thinking of my birth mother and what she must have gone through ❤

It's a very sad tale. It took me 47 years to find my birth mother and 55 years to find my birth father in 2021. These poor women had it bad and they have my sympathy.

When my Mother gave birth in 1957, she was in a Mother and baby home in Yorkshire. Back then, she spent 6 weeks there, after the birth, bathing the baby and feeding (bottle, she thinks) Apparently there was six week's for the adoptive parents and Mum, to change their minds (she wasn't aware of that then) after that, she was told to go down to the basement and not come back till she was told to, that is when the baby was taken by her adoptive parents. None of us ever knew that our mother had a baby until last year when I was contacted by my half Sister. It makes sense now and it affected our childhood (on reflection)

My mom was 18 just graduated when she got pregnant with me. Her sister was raising her and when she arrived home one day there was a adoption worker waiting for he, her sister had called and was insisting my mom give me up. My mom locked herself in the bathroom until the worker left. My dad was 17, his mom took them to Washington state and signed for him to be able to get married. They found a job at a movie theatre that came with an apartment where they would clean at night. I am the adoptive mom to 2 wonderful young men. Their situation was very different from these ladies. They were in foster care for quite a long while being born drug addicted. I keep in contact with bio mom since the boys were 5 and 1, sending pictures, updates, encouragement and have encouraged her to reach out to the boys on numerous occasions but she shows very little interest and so the boys just don’t want to keep reaching out and expecting something that she cannot or will not give. Both have said they are done trying with her and the fact of the matter is if they don’t try to contact her, they will never hear from her. They do want to keep in contact with their 3 other siblings though, that is all that they want from that family.

AND HOLY MARY! GAVE BIRTH ? IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ! .....THERE IS NOTHING CLEAN IN STEALING ! AND FORCIBLY ADOPTING ANY CHILD BEYOND PARENTAL CONSENT/ TOTAL DISGRACE TO ALL PARTY'S CONCERNED.PERIOD