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Canada’s decades long forced adoptions

Canada’s decades long forced adoptions

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For decades after the Second World War, more than 300,000 unmarried women were sent away to live with relatives or in federal grant-funded maternity homes. There, they were coerced into giving up their babies. Some mothers have reconnected with their grown children, while many have not. Now, some say an apology from the government is long overdue. We speak with mothers Valerie Andrews and Christine Nayler, as well as Lynda Hall, a daughter forcibly given up.

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