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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

Government ‘sorry on behalf of society’ for ‘appalling’ treatment of unmarried mothers

PA

A lack of formal government apology to unmarried mothers who faced “appalling treatment” in decades past, including unwanted adoptions, has been labelled “disappointing”.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) had called on the government to issue an apology to women who had their babies taken from them for adoption between 1949 and 1976.

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