Sheila Wayman
11 min read The continuing anguish around how thousands of Irish babies were put up for adoption for all the wrong reasons was painfully evident from last weekâs January is Health Month in The Irish Times. Throughout the month, in print and online, we will be offering encouragement and inspiration to help us all improve our physical and mental health in 2021. See
âThe mothers did not have much choice,â the commission acknowledged, even if it declined to describe them as âforced adoptionsâ. Societal and religious pressures, along with lack of financial supports, made it very difficult for women during much of the 1922-1998 period under review, to see how raising a child out of wedlock would be possible never mind desirable.