Hospitals and adoption agencies colluded to force single mothers to give up their children, truth commission finds
Sussie Brynald, 51, who was sent for adoption in Denmark, said the news of what had happened to people like her biological mother was deeply upsetting.Sussie Brynald, 51, who was sent for adoption in Denmark, said the news of what had happened to people like her biological mother was deeply upsetting.South Korea has found new evidence that mothers were forced to give up their children for adoption in countries including Australia, Denmark and the United States.
Adoption workers in some cases insisted that adoptees were abandoned children and blamed the biological parents for not looking for them.set up to investigate the claims has detailed some of the coercive methods used to force mothers living in welfare shelters to give up their sometimes day-old children.
“It’s inconceivable how violent and systemic it was, but there’s also redemption in the truth coming out,” said Peter Møller, an adoptee himself and founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group , which has campaigned for an inquiry into the adoption industry that sent them predominantly to white families in western countries.
As well as confirming long-held suspicions that the country’s overseas adoption programme was riddled with egregious misconduct, the government commission has revealed rampant human rights abuses and atrocious treatment of inmates at four of these centres.Inmates were forced into unpaid labour on construction projects, forcibly transferred to other detention facilities, restrained and subjected to beatings and solitary confinement.
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