Poverty rates of lone parents show our historical disregard for children

The British state, in the UK and Ireland, had done little more than exterminate ‘unwanted’ babies, writes Victoria White.

SINCE the news came about of the “significant” human remains in Tuam we’ve had 13 days of mindless commentary and dire journalism — the main thrust of which is the Catholic Church murdered babies in their hundreds and stashed them in the sewerage system because their mothers had “sinned”.

Mention of the Protestant Bethany Home, which had the same death rate, causes the needle to lift momentarily before it dives back into its well-worn groove: The awful, awful Catholic Church. This was “our own little Holocaust”, to quote the Irish Mirror.