'We must right a historic wrong': Women forced to give up their babies for adoption tell of their decades of heartache as MPs call for an apology

Women forced to give up their babies for adoption in the Fifties and Sixties told yesterday of their decades of heartache as MPs urged the Government to apologise for the scandal.

More than half a million newborns were taken from young unmarried women at a time when being a single mother was often seen as shameful.

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• Mothers who were forced to give up their babies for adoption are long overdue an apology