Welsh government to apologise for forced adoptions
The Welsh government is to formally apologise to mothers forced to give away their children.Speaking in the Senedd, Deputy Social Services Minister Julie Morgan will say sorry for the failures in society that led to the practice.One Welsh woman who was forcibly adopted said she felt "robbed" of her culture after she was taken from a Welsh-speaking mother.estimated that 185,000 babies were affected across England and Wales.
The Welsh government's decision comes a month after Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's apology on the same issue, and ten years after Australia said sorry for the practice.Anne Jones, from Glan Conwy, was adopted as a baby by a family in Llandudno in the 1950s. Her birth mother, Katie Green, from Caernarfon, had her outside of marriage at the age of 36.that her mother had "no choice" but to give her up due to "shame" and no financial support.
Although she located her brother, who had stayed with his mother, she was only able to find out who her mother was years after she died.She welcomed the Welsh government's decision but was disappointed that it was not happening at the UK level."You don't know whether there's anybody else in the world who looks like you.""My mother was Welsh, and because she lived and was born and brought up in Caernarfon, she was Welsh speaking. That's something I missed out on.
"It's a stigma that is put on people. It shouldn't have happened and they should be receiving an apology."Anne Jones, pictured here as a baby, said forced adoption was a "stigma"
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