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 breaking the most potent of social taboos. till death us do part. but what if you did become pregnant without a husband? the scene is a big gay. holiday camp at butlins. i was working at the holiday camp in bognor. i was going out with one of the redcoats. we became intimate and.| got pregnant. veronica smith was unmarried. my mother didn t tell my father because she said it would kill him. so he never knew? no. ever? never. so shameful was it that veronica was sent in secret to a mother and baby home, a
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
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 generally institutionalised, that s what they did. and maybe they thought by trying to cut everything short, cut and dried right, you re in, you re away, you ll have your baby, your baby will go for adoption, that s it. it sounds callous. now, absolutely. but the hospital trauma faced by the new young mothers wasn t over. next came the moment of handover. ann keen was taunted by a midwife when she found out she couldn t even say goodbye to her baby son.
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 generally institutionalised, that s what they did. and maybe they thought by trying to cut everything short, cut and dried right, you re in, you re away, you ll have your baby, your baby will go for adoption, that s it. it sounds callous. now, absolutely. but the hospital trauma faced by the new young mothers wasn t over. next came the moment of handover. ann keen was taunted by a midwife when she found out she couldn t even say goodbye