{"id":167535,"date":"2024-07-09T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-women-haunted-by-forced-adoptions-looking-for-answers-itv-news\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T21:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T20:00:58","slug":"the-women-haunted-by-forced-adoptions-looking-for-answers-itv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-women-haunted-by-forced-adoptions-looking-for-answers-itv-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The women haunted by forced adoptions looking for answers | ITV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/S5jesN0RTTs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"The women haunted by forced adoptions looking for answers | ITV News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5jesN0RTTs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>In the decades after the war, nearly 200,000 unmarried women were forced and shamed into giving up their babies for adoption in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>This is the harrowing story of mothers still traumatised by the cruelty they faced for getting pregnant out of wedlock, and their decades-long search for justice.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1949 and the mid 1970s, thousands of women were sent away to mother and baby homes run by churches and the state &#8211; places of secrecy, cruelty and even abuse &#8211; where babies were put up for adoption or died through poor care.<\/p>\n<p>ITV News has investigated one home in south Cumbria. Burial records obtained through a Freedom of Information request revealed that 45 babies are buried in unmarked graves close to the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2024-07-09\/the-women-haunted-by-forced-adoptions-looking-for-answers<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the decades after the war, nearly 200,000 unmarried women were forced and shamed into giving up their babies for adoption in England and Wales. 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