This is heartbreaking arse.....l GPs and disgusting nurses. Wish they could be made accountable. I'm 70 and have 10 children. I got married in 1974 and had 14 years of abuse from him but I had my son. My parents wanted me to give him up I refused. I got married again in the 90s had another 4 children and fostered 2 who we adopted parents did not want them sisters 7 and 18 months. I would of been labled a fallen woman for sure. Now I have 17 grandchildren and three great. I am blessed. ( My children weren't married at the time of birth although they married in the end. Bless you you precious mamas. Lyn New Zealand

In UK it was Tony Blair who decided to give sw bonus for each kid they get adopted n it's easier to get kids adopted who come from loving caring parents

Know this is devastating however unfortunately system is still corrupt sw nowadays r taking kids off loving caring parents n leave kids with abusive parents n sw r allowed to own their own kids homes n sw give kids to know abusive forest parents n put kids in abusive kids homes n unfortunately not all forest parents r in it for right reason as they make money from corrupt system just like kids homes n just to name few people who r apart of corrupt system judge cop's hospital school lawyers sw coz they make money from corrupt system n just to name few people who r aware of abuse in corrupt system hospital cop's lawyers judges school sw coz they make money from corrupt system n society defend sw n discredit parents despite fact that mps undercover/ex/sw speaking about sw taking kids off loving caring parents n leave kids with abusive parents n society defend sw for not listening to kids even if kids talk about being abused in care system n r begging to go back home n yet nobody listen to kids when they become adults n talk about fact system is corrupt n adoption n kinship n kids being in care can cost trauma especially if kids r begging to go back home n even if u adopted newborn baby it can still cost trauma which is why corrupt system needs to be changed to try n keep families together as along as it's safe to do so n if sw were taking right kids then no kids know by sw would be unalive by they parents look at what unfortunately happen with Arthur n baby P n baby star

It’s very hard to listen to these stories..poor women..

My mum had a daughter adopted in the 60's 30 years later she found my mum and is very much part of our family now, mum had never said a word about her until my sister found her, so it was a big surprise but a very welcome one and im so glad that she found us.

the Baxxxxxs are still child snatching evey 30 min. its got worse. uk is a child trafficking child stealing family destroying stare.

My heart breaks for these poor ladies. I can't imagine what it must be like. My heart breaks for my birth mother, too. I was adopted at birth and I realized after I became an adult that it was absolutely the best thing for me. It took a while, but many years ago I realized that my Mom who took me home from the hospital is my Mom and I love her so much. I found my birth mother at 18. When I first met her it was an amazing experience. And it's fascinating to finally see someone that looks like you! Then the second time we saw each other it went sour and out of the blue she ended up writing me a very nasty, hateful letter to stay away from her family. I was completely shocked. I realized later that it was probably because of her own dysfunctional family dynamics, but we never spoke about it directly. It was very difficult being snubbed by her, especially after such a beautiful time at first. We eventually had intermittent bits of contact after years passed and it was mostly very pleasant. I wanted to reach out to her at times, but she was always very closed up so I let things be. I've always had the feeling that she was deeply hurt by my adoption. I found out several years ago that she died and it's very sad to me. However, as I said - my Mama is my Mama and nothing will ever change that. And I know for sure that the Lord knew exactly what He was doing when I was adopted out.

I was adopted from the Catholic Crusade of Rescue in October 1973. I have had an amazing life thanks my wonderful courageous birth mother who I was always knew as Angela. Back then I was as far as I know I was John. I think about Angela on all of birthdays at every Christmas every New Year. I have never met Angela but want to her to know I love her for bringing me into this world. And I am sorry for all the pain and unimaginable mental and physical suffering and torture she went through. I love her for being my mother for what she did. And want her to know that she was and never ever will be forgotten. I have tried in vain to find Angela which led me to travel to the Crusade of Rescue and to Galway some years ago. But I met with a wall of silence secrecy and shame. But that is my burden not Angelas. I am still searching. Love all the awesome mothers in this programme ❤❤

These churches and authorities are just looking for victims. If you had a tooth ace you would be taken better care of than when you are pregnant.

This is so so sad,my dear mum who passed away,after she had gone I found out that she had a baby boy aged 16/17 it's was frowned upon back then, my mum was forced the have the baby somewhere and baby was taken away and adopted with very little information I wouldn't know were to start to look for him.

Even in the late 70s there wasn't support for young single Mothers, no benefits housing etc.. for the Mums who chose to have their babies adopted they absolutely did it for the right reasons at the time.

What about when the state terminates your rights. Your choice: voluntarily terminate your parental rights and they say you can still see your kids or involuntarily get your rights terminated and you'll never see them again and if you have a child later in life it will be taken from you. My daughter and her fiance turned their lives around. Did a complete 180 and because it took a little longer than what the courts felt it should've, they lost their children. Were forced to sign them over. I'm in the USA. CYS, children and youth services are corrupt. They don't care about the kids or reunification. Oh, if it's on their timeline. There's never a timeline when you are a parent.

As an adopted child id like to point out the huge pain and void and damage done us. Would someone like to address that?

BuT tHe WeSt Is DeFeNdEr Of InDiViDuAl RiGhTs: every right wingers

How The care system was started. Truth be told it started to cover the level of abuse that was found in the feform schools lead by the Catholic Church. And even in this day and age it's not much better. Now they put it down to crappy parenting and promiscuity. When in reality the girl's are targeted and exploited from a very early age. She argues back she's subject to domestic violence. She leaves to protect her kid's they target her father. Hate the whole adoption system with a passion. U challenge it ur preventing that child from a better life. Like these women supposed to have no feelings for they're children. Like they're kid's not supposed to love Them. Hate the whole system. Baby's made purely for the foster care system. To be used thier whole life as a meal ticket. Make My skin crawl the lot of em. My brother being one of em. Met him once and faught tears was like looking in a mirror. Never known how needed And loved he is. Nothing but pure hatred for the whole system.

The evil carried out in the name of religion is unmeasurable.

I was born in 1967 in Liverpool my parents had just finished University and found out I was on the way, they where getting married anyway but brought the wedding forward how lucky I was not to be one of those forced adopted children. On the other hand I'm utterly ashamed of my country that they behaved in this matter, when a society mixes religion, religious attitudes , social services and government together that's a recipe for disaster. Social Services and the Department of Health need to address this matter and make an unreserved apology. Money will not make up for there loss but these poor woman will have a multi million pound settlement after a public enquiry .

And to think Eve is blamed for decieving Adam I think it was visa versa church should be ashamed of their deception

How cruel

Narcassist all of the medical workers be. Cruel

I was adopted in 1955 from a welsh single mum; I was adopted to very good honest people in England, they just had absolutely no ideal how to tell a 3 year old I felt such anxiety from them saying to me I was so called chosen , I felt they had just picked a puppy from a litter in my 3 year old mind and they couldn’t LOVE ME or show love ,I’m 68 now and have suffered anxiety and severe depression since then ; I’ve tried to kill my self quite a few times with no understanding from anyone or actual help with me understanding why I’m this way depression is a killer

There apologies mean f all. Its 2023 and is still happening.

I blame the girls parents 100%

I was born in 1951 in Manhattan, New York. My mother had turned 16 two months before and my father was just 17. My parents were considered too immature to have a child. Her parents were separated and there wasn't really a home for her and a child. My father's parents had been divorced. His father married someone else, divorced and remarried my grandmother. Social Services felt that I would be better off in foster care and I was taken from my parents. I was with them for almost two years. In the meantime my parents were still dating and she was pregnant again. They married in a state that would allow such young people to marry. They asked for me to be returned and I was. They'd found an apartment and he had graduated from a vocational high school and was working. After my brother was born there were six more births. We lived in extreme poverty. My father was a schizophrenic and was hospitalized a few times. Being the oldest the burdens fell on me. I was a bright student and in a special sciences based program and played the violin with the school system's orchestra. I wasn't happy. My school work suffered because I had no time to myself. We moved to Florida on a week's notice, to a truly inferior school system. My paternal grandparents had wanted to keep me there for my education's sake but my mother wouldn't hear of it. I was too valuable. I worked throughout jr and high schools. I found a good job at 18. Throughout my teens my mother had taken most of what I earned. I was drafted at 19 and went into the Navy. It was a relief to be rid of her though she still "borrowed" from me. I was fortunate in finding a good woman to marry. We've been marred 51 years. I have had to separate from my siblings. None of them succeeded at life and my wife and I tired of supporting them. My mother's narciscism ruined all their lives. She divorced my father at 35 years but the marriage was over long before. My mother has never desired to see my son. He's 46 and a Civil Engineer in a stable marriage. I haven't called her in years. There's no point to it since she'll only lie to me as she's always done. Her narciscism won't let her call me I wonder at times if I'd been better off being adopted by a functional family. Who is to say that these children weren't better off being adopted? This video told us nothing of these women's lives so we don't know what kind of lives they would have provided for their children. We don't even know if they had other children and stable marriages.

This is still happening today to disabled mothers it hasent gone away its just become less noticable/ better hidden by social services, midwifes and doctors.

To all you brave women, my heart and love go out to each and everyone of you. To the children of these women please make contact and give them peace.

So much suffering from people wanting to have control over others.

I was adopted in 1969 , my life has sadly be formed by others whom had no idea of the damage which was yet to come to my life , my adoption by wholly “ unsuited “ people shaped my life until recently. My real mum died while i was attempting to make contact. My life was taken before I even was self ware , let alone to make a informed decision. Our society needs to learn a massive lesson from the past , and support those that need it the most , at their most desperate time ..

Wow they had no rights taking there children poor women !!! Breaks my heart I’m crying rn for them x

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 ❤

My birth mother gave me away, she admitted that to me.

I truly feel for each and every mum that had her child stollen from her. It’s heartbreaking, I know, I am one of these mums. 💔

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.

What a relief that we have moved on since those times when getting pregnant out of wedlock was a sin. Why was it that women had to bear the shame? How can having a beautiful innocent baby be a sin? The mind boggles - thank god that we moved on from those times!

Bloody religion! So much heartache in the name of a church.

And.... church again! Disgusting!

The young mothers was so mutch lost and sad they abuse them for be a "sinner,"but where was the dads who was involved to 50 Prozent..they no get any Problem with the system they go away and that was it😡😡😡

I am not even 5 minutes into this documentary and I have a lump in my throat..... I just want to hug and comfort these mothers. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I was adopted in1967. I am led to believe she chose to give me up. I hope this was the case!

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.

Post WWII allied governments came up with a cunning plan…they introduced laws to circumnavigate responsibility for the many babies being born out of wedlock. Financing orphanages and foster homes would have been expensive…so governments came up with a CUNNING PLAN - Closed Adoption, it would effectively absolve them of responsibility, not just fiscal responsibility, all responsibility. By formally closing the books on an adoption it also meant the courts would rarely see the issue before them. When you look at it from this perspective adoption laws were pretty well written. But is a law written to offset financial and almost all other liabilities, which exempts a government in almost every way possible actually legal? I’m not sure that it is. Watertight?…well almost. I feel like a remnant of the slave trade acts. As an adoptee I have no rights. What was ‘supposed’ to be in my best interests left me with no rights or choices at all. I have never viewed my “Bill Of Sale”…the legal documentation relating to my adoption…and the courts have refused me access to this - with no explanation other than ’this is unusual’ This refusal is despite my fully knowing my biological history and all other parties except myself being dead. Why?…I can only presume that swathes of this documentation is legally unsound. It would become a nightmare. Let’s not forget these women were also often prescribed medication and drugged to make them easy to manipulate and conform. Postscript: My birth mother died in horrific circumstances, her body dumped on the side of the road and missing for thirteen days and remains an unsolved crime. It was front page national news. The shame surrounding my adoption led to her making the ill fated decision to attempt a backstreet abortion, despite being engaged to marry my birth father. Extreme pain would have been her last memory. Her death went on to play a part in changing abortion laws in NZ.

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

I think this is still happening all over the world.

Unfortunately not only a problem in Britain but also in the Netherlands (between 15.000 and 20.000) and thousants of Belgium woman. Really, the influence from church was in many ways terrible and I honestly, I never heard any nice stories about nuns and in the area I grew up in. They ruled everything like hospital and schools. The nuns where brutal. They left my mother who stayed with them for other family issues with life long trauma, and left my sister to get brain damage because of brutal practices during her birth, but of course, that was God's wish. They where terrible enough to caused a trauma even without seeing your baby beeing stolen. These women really suffered and i'm so sorry for them. Hope one day they all find peace of mind and can reconnect with their lost children. We might think life was easier before but at least nowadays we at least admit to the wrongs and don't hide behind religion anymore.

Stupid Catholics. I bet there’ll be Plenty of “nuns” in HELL.

Shame on the church, shame on Britain.

It was not acceptable to have a child and be unmarried. Families wouldn’t support their daughters who became pregnant out of wedlock.

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.

would be interesting to hear from some unwed mothers of that era who were allowed to keep their babies and what kind of experience they had

It’s still happening today just in another way. People with disabilities and a past of mental health trouble in childhood being targeted and socially vulnerable people trapped in a broken system and unable to be heard. When is this going to stop? They will go on about this in another 30 or 40 but by then, God forbid they will be using other tactics to steal children for heaven knows what purposes.