UK’s Starmer apologises for the state’s role in decades of forced adoptions
- UK government and Christian churches oversaw system that separated 185,000 babies from their mothers from 1949 to 1976.
- United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a formal apology over the forced adoption of babies born to unmarried British mothers in the decades after World War II, describing the scheme as a “stain on our history”.
- Between 1949 and 1976, the British government and Christian churches oversaw a system that coerced and shamed mothers – many of whom were teenagers – into giving up their babies.
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- UK government and Christian churches oversaw system that separated 185,000 babies from their mothers from 1949 to 1976.
- United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a formal apology over the forced adoption of babies born to unmarried British mothers in the decades after World War II, describing the scheme as a “stain on our history”.
- Between 1949 and 1976, the British government and Christian churches oversaw a system that coerced and shamed mothers – many of whom were teenagers – into giving up their babies.
Sources: Al Jazeera