Long Lost Family itv 9pm

JaneJudge I so agree with you ! We're still in the dark ages when it comes to some subjects regarding babies versus the so-called legals.

Kate Adie wasn't abandoned, she was given up for adoption. Much later in life after the death of her lovely parents, she found her birth mother and had a happy reunion meeting other family. Her autobiography 'Nobody's Child ' is a good read.
she later said. ' For I was now part of a much bigger family, having met my own mother and a wonderful, welcoming tribe of a kind and fascinating relatives. '

a baby was found dead in a canal in Walsall last week, things really haven't changed dramatically unfortunately. Still women are subjected to control and abuse, especially when in poverty. Never be naïve enough to think things have changed for all women, they really haven't

It’s remarkable how science and technology can reunite the foundlings.
Kate Adie was a foundling, I have wondered if she has used DNA to trace family.

the itv 9pm show is about babies abandoned at birth. nothing to do with the bbc news item...Long Lost Family.

It was the girls parents who sent them to homes

I watched the report on the 6 o’clock news, it was very moving. Different times, today’s youngsters cannot imagine the stigma and shame that being an unmarried mother would face back then.

They are calling for a government apology to be given by Boris. How can he make amends for what took place decades ago though?

Saying ‘sorry’ won’t change anything.

Yes saw that on the news and it was awful treatment - similar to what happened in Ireland. I was born in 1956 and Mum was not married. I would have been adopted but for her sister who said "We are not giving this baby away". Mum was sent to a mother and baby home in Aberdeen from Edinburgh. She went back to work and my granny looked after me. We lived together till Mum married my adoptive Dad.

It was very moving. I always weep a little bit. I've wept a bit again this evening when BBC six o'clock news ran a feature of poor distressed ladies who'd given up babies for adoption in the 50's & 60's. Heartbreaking. So sad in those times.