yvonne labrum also felt the pressure when she became pregnant out of wedlock aged 20. you re not married so, therefore, you re not keeping the baby, which really hurt me. you wanted to have the baby? i wanted.to have my child. the pressure on unmarried women to give up their babies took hold in the 1950s. it coincided with increased demand for adopted children from childless couples in postwar britain. we were asked to prepare a layette for the baby. but thousands of these women, like ann keen, wanted to keep their babies, yet they often felt ground down by social workers into submission. it was coercion. the phrase was, this will be for the best
really brilliant. forjudy baker who never went on to have another child, an apology would recognise deep, enduring pain. how can you do that to a teenager and to an innocent baby? how can you part them simply because i was unmarried?! the report estimates nearly 200,000 babies were adopted from unmarried mothers in the three decades after world war ii. other countries like australia have already apologised to birth mothers. now, those here say it s time the uk and scottish governments did the same to reach out with compassion and finally officially recognise that forced adoptions were wrong. a historical injustice is what happened to us. other countries have recognised it, and it s high time ours did. it s about me and many mothers
the pressure on unmarried women to give up their babies took hold in the 1950s. it coincided with increased demand for adopted children from childless couples in postwar britain. we were asked to prepare a layette for the baby. but thousands of these women, like ann keen, wanted to keep their babies, yet they often felt ground down by social workers into submission. it was coercion. the phrase was, this will be for the best this will be the best for the baby, this will be the best for you, because if you really love this baby, you will make sure that it has a different life and not with you, and that the best thing to do is to give him up. tonight s debate is about the
week ahead. it is looking fairly typical for the time of year across our shores. satellite picture shows weather systems coming off the atlantic. we have had a bit of rain recently in scotland and northern ireland thanks to this weather front which is way out of the picture, i think, on sunday. monday starts off pretty bright for most of us. sunday. cloud will be increasing in the uk, the next weather front is approaching, perhaps some spots of rain for wales and north west england date any day on sunday. mostly dry day, sunny across scotland, quite warm, low to mid 20s across examples of the country. here is the forecast for night into monday, notice the weather systems moving into the atlantic, as well as cloud and rain they are bringing some warm air overnight, look at the temperatures first thing monday, around 60 degrees. here is that weather system on monday, shrouding the uk with thick cloud and outbreaks of rain, at least early in the day. so this is the morning.
what do you say to their campaign to get an apology from the scottish government and the uk government? i think they re right, these women were not treated with the dignity and respect that you would expect of a professional. it s been horrible and ghastly for them. one little daughter made a comment.to say that.they d been.been denied a relationship.for so much of their lives. sorry. ..sorry would be l a great.a great thing.