Adoption: The secrets, lies and myths

I don’t know a single natural mother who willingly gave up her baby, writes Claire McGettrick.

Adoption: The secrets, lies and myths

THOSE who speak of natural mothers wishing to forever ‘keep their secrets’ clearly have no grasp of adoption and its profound impact on those directly affected.

Ireland’s closed, secret, forced adoption system involved a complete separation of mother and child, where the break was permanent and neither would have knowledge of the other’s whereabouts. It offered no alternative to mothers but to relinquish their children.

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