and in china, water levels in the yangtze river are currently at a record low. now on bbc news, if you love your baby: the fight for an apology for forced adoptions. this is the story about loss. of lives changed, love fractured. it happened not long ago and the pain has followed those involved down through history. i lost the only thing in my life that i ever wanted. i loved her so much. i still love her. i m her mum! it was to be a secret. it was.it was not to be discussed. l was actually taken from my arms without telling me what was happening. i canjust remember lying there, thinking it d be better to die. a historical injustice - is what happened to us. other countries have - recognised it and it s high time ours did. bells toll 60 years ago, british society was very different. the bride s name is stella, she s 19, lives in barnet. marriage was the cornerstone of family respectability. 20% took place in a registry office. to have a baby outside wedlock would risk breakin
after switching vehicles following an event outside moscow. now on bbc news, duncan kennedy reports on the story of historical forced adoptions and the mothers search for a justice and an official government apology. this is the story about loss. of lives changed, love fractured. it happened not long ago and the pain has followed those involved down through history. i lost the only thing in my life that i ever wanted. i loved her so much. i still love her. i m her mum! it was to be a secret. it was.it was not to be discussed. l was actually taken from my arms without telling me what was happening. i canjust remember lying there, thinking it d be better to die. a historical injustice - is what happened to us. other countries have recognised i it and it s high time ours did. i bells toll. 60 years ago, british society was very different. the bride s name is stella, she s 19, lives in barnet. marriage was the cornerstone of family respectability. 20% took place in a registry of
feels like to be tortured. nurses didn t even let her see her baby. so i didn t see him at all, not not even a little bit. and when was the first time you got to hold your own baby? the first time i got to hold my own baby was 31 years later when he was 6 1 . so i never held my baby, i never saw him. but in these postwar decades, who were these nhs staff behaving like that? some of the older midwives would say i hate the word but, some of these are fallen women, they ve got to get on with their lives. anne hair worked with some of them. she was a trainee nurse at this former hospital in edinburgh and witnessed how some of her more established colleagues treated the young, unmarried women. sometimes you felt they were cruel in. in how they spoke about them.
and i thought this is this is terrible, this is what this must be what it feels like to be tortured. nurses didn t even let her see her baby. so i didn t see him at all, not not even a little bit. and when was the first time you got to hold your own baby? the first time i got to hold my own baby was 31 years later when he was 6 1 . so i never held my baby, i never saw him. but in these postwar decades, who were these nhs staff behaving like that? some of the older midwives would say i hate the word but some of these are fallen women, they ve got to get on with their lives. anne hair worked with some of them. she was a trainee nurse at this former hospital in edinburgh and witnessed how some of her more established colleagues treated the young, unmarried women. sometimes you felt they were cruel in.in how
you got to hold your own baby? the first time i got to hold my own baby was 31 years later when he was 61 . so i never held my baby, i never saw him. but in these postwar decades, who were these nhs staff behaving like that? some of the older midwives would say i hate the word but some of these are fallen women, they ve got to get on with their lives. anne hair worked with some of them. she was a trainee nurse at this former hospital in edinburgh and witnessed how some of her more established colleagues treated the young, unmarried women. sometimes you felt cruel in.in how they spoke about them. how did these young mothers react? i think they were in shock. 50 years ago, this building was another mother and baby unit anne worked in. she said some nurses treated the taking away of babies in an almost routine way. i think they were just