{"id":220020,"date":"2025-02-20T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-chilling-stories-of-women-in-church-and-state-run-mother-and-baby-institutions-itv-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:04:39","slug":"the-chilling-stories-of-women-in-church-and-state-run-mother-and-baby-institutions-itv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-chilling-stories-of-women-in-church-and-state-run-mother-and-baby-institutions-itv-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The chilling stories of women in church and state-run mother and baby institutions | ITV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/ljs7EB0cIV0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"The chilling stories of women in church and state-run mother and baby institutions | ITV News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljs7EB0cIV0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>An ITV investigation has found chilling evidence that unmarried mothers in England fear they were given a dangerous drug now linked to cancers and other serious conditions while in state institutions in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stilbestrol, commonly known as DES was a synthetic hormone, prescribed to dry up breast milk and\u202frecommended for use in mother and baby homes in England for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the 40 years after World War Two,\u202f an estimated 200,000 unmarried mothers gave birth in these institutions run by the church or state and were pressured to put their babies up for adoption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ITV\u2019s Tonight programme broadcast on ITV1 and ITVX at 8pm on February 20, titled \u2018Forced Adoption: Britain&#8217;s Silent Scandal\u2019 explores one of Britain\u2019s darkest social injustices and the lifelong consequences.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n\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>Follows ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ITV investigation has found chilling evidence that unmarried mothers in England fear they were given a dangerous drug now linked to cancers and other serious conditions while in state institutions in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.\u00a0 Stilbestrol, commonly known as DES was a synthetic hormone, prescribed to dry up breast milk and\u202frecommended for use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[136235,129783,129720],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-220020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-chilling","tag-found","tag-investigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The chilling stories of women in church and state-run mother and baby institutions | ITV News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch The chilling stories of women in church and state-run mother and baby institutions | ITV News for free, here on News ISC. 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