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As the report outlines, this mood of sexual repression extended to “evil literature”, “immodesty in female dress”, “the dangers of dancing” and “condemnation of company-keeping”.
The torturing with shame of mothers has had such a profound effect that women whose children were adopted decades ago often still cannot come to terms with forming a relationship with them if they try to get in touch. They can still struggle to bring their parallel lives together.
We may live in a supposedly liberal, tolerant republic, but adoption is still covered in a veil of secrecy.