Forced Adoptions Leave Countless Australians With Unanswered Questions

Forced Adoptions Leave Countless Australians With Unanswered Questions
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Hundreds of thousands of Australians are still dealing with the fallout of a shameful period in the country’s history, when unmarried women were forced to give up their babies.

The children were taken at birth from their mothers, who were mostly young women, between the 1950s and 1980s.