One issue that needs to be highlighted in the context of mother and baby homes is the question of fatherhood. Justice demands that those fathers who abandoned those young pregnant girls should be obliged to own up to their responsibility.
Families too have to take their share of the blame when they abandoned their vulnerable young daughters.
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