Australia - CC Apology for treatment

Give it time. There have been apologies for slavery so maybe at some point, there will be an apology.

Thank you for linking that Dickons. I had been following it on another FB page and have read some of the submissions so it is good to see the apology finally come through. Btw some may find the following article interesting. It is 247 pages long but quite interesting (once you get past first few chapters) - it includes some stories from various mothers as well from midwives in the 60s/70s in Australia. One of the main Sydney women's hospitals is mentioned quite a bit (I think it was THE main one). [url]http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/295/03ch11toEnd.pdf;jsessionid=9A2FC81D5CBD6AE005FDA052E4D2B564?sequence=3[/url] Btw I think they were a bit "kinder" in NZ, certainly more subtle. I think adoption in Auckland** had been so successful that, by the mid 60s, there was almost as many babies as PAPs. However, society's mores were still the same so women were still encouraged to relinquish for "moral" reasons even though it wasn't as easy to find parents (we are talking about weeks instead of days), it wasn't until the early 70s when the unmarried mothers pension came in that adoptions plummeted - I think it was about the same time in Australia. **Auckland had totally private adoptions (none through the government unlike the rest of NZ). I believe that adoption rates in Auckland were the highest per capita in the world at the time.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsMm73eA9Ac&feature=player_embedded#at=77"]‪Church apologises for forced adoptions‬‏ - YouTube[/URL] ABC australian news report - worth watching. Kind regards,Dickons