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Maeve Bannister

Forced adoptions leave countless unanswered questions

Robert Mauger says he's still trying to learn more about his ancestors after being forcibly adopted. (MICK TSIKAS) (AAP)

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.

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