FOR nine decades the Irish social movement Muintir na Tíre (Irish for 'People of the Land') has been embedded in rural communities across the 26 counties.
Mother and Baby Homes: Kildare official warned of turning unmarried mothers into social outcasts more than 80 years ago
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A senior Kildare health official sounded a warning about how unmarried mothers were being treated over 80 years ago.
The information is contained in the 3,000 page report of the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes published last week.
In a paper presented to Muintir na Tíre Rural Week in 1939, the assistant county medical officer of health for Kildare, who was a woman, argued that it is “highly desirable that unmarried mothers, some of whom are often of weak mentality, should not become the outcasts of society and add further to the difficulties of the situation.”
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