The WA Government responds to a landmark report into forced adoptions in the state — but it won't commit to a redress scheme, leaving many mothers who were forced to give up their babies disappointed.
Survivors of the forced adoption era gathered at state parliament for the tabling of the inquiry report in August, and many say they're unhappy with the government's response.The WA government has responded to a landmark report into forced adoption s in the state between 1939 until the early 1980s.
Mothers whose babies were taken away from 1939 to the early 1980s, as well as people who were removed as newborns, gathered at Parliament House on Tuesday to witness the tabling of the government's response to a recent inquiry.It found the women were psychologically abused, coerced into the adoptions of their babies and many endured horrific treatment in private institutions.
The tabling of the response comes 14 years after WA became the first state in the country to apologise for the forced adoption practices of last century.At an event to mark the anniversary yesterday, mother Louise Kirk, who became pregnant at 16 and was coerced into signing adoption papers, said redress was long overdue to properly acknowledge the severe lifelong harm caused by the practice.
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