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It never ceases to amaze me that a Church founded by the Son of God, based on Love, was represented and run by humans who showed so little love to vulnerable children and their vulnerable mothers.
@Neil Neart: true but then if there were no mother and baby homes run by the church then so many women in difficult situations and shunned by their own families would of had no where to go to at all.
@lorcmulv: tell that to the babies toss into septic tanks.
@lorcmulv: You appear to be ignoring the reasom why those girls and women were shunned.
@Felicity Hensen: it’s a chicken and egg story. Families offloaded their “odd” sons and daughters to hide the family shame. These sons and daughters became priests and nuns.
@lorcmulv: without the eviI distortion of human behaviour and the indoctrination by the Catholic Church there would be no need for such homes. Being an unmarried mother would hold no stigma. It’s only the inhumane brainwashing done by power greedy clergy that caused about 50% of all misery on this planet (if not more).
@lorcmulv: The morality of the times came from the Church. Terrified pregnant young girls, carrying tiny grandchildren, were shunned and rejected and treated as manifestations of mortal sin because the Church told society that that is what they were. A largely uneducated population, fearful of losing access to Heaven for eternal life with God believed the Church’s teachings on morality and shunned their own lovely daughters and grandchildren. Yet the Church still exists in spite of hundreds of years of shameful leadership, cover ups and abuse. Astonishing.
@lorcmulv: Starved, bullied and beaten? Many men and women couldn’t get their child back from such institutions although they had worked hard to be in a position to support them. Those places took the children on for the support money. I’m sure inspectors didn’t witness the half of the needless cruelty and hunger, and they were well paid while the children had to manage with as little as possible.
That was heartbreaking to read, especially the part about Monique’s father looking for her – evening going to her school – and being willing to look after her when she was born. It was lovely that he spoke about her openly to his own family and didn’t treat her like a shameful secret. He sounded like a wonderful man. What a tragedy they never met.
@FrustratedASDMum: Yes, wasn’t it? I’m so glad that she found her sister, and that at least went well for her. So many official obstacles and lies to get beyond. I’m so sorry for her painful losses and well done to her for persisting. I hope better disclosure is possible for others who were adopted under a different name. DNA kits are reuniting so many people in our lifetimes. Wishing her and her handsome family all the best in the future.
The State and Churches have so much answer for none are innocent. Especially the Churches in every way.
@Mick McGuinness: and society as a whole
It’s the same for donor-conceived people. So many records destroyed, so many people looking for these parts of their family, so many having doors shut in their faces. It’s awful. We have a lot in common with adoptees yet legislation is still not properly child centred nor retroactive as it has been for adoption.
A lot of girls were r.a.p.e.d by family, or people in higher power. Hitting the toxic red now. A few full stops madness.
I think nowadays it’s easier to find Family. Just do a DNA test and some relatives are bound to pop up, then you can ask them to put you in touch with others in the Family or at least let them know you’re looking for them. Ancestry have special offers on around St. Patrick’s day as well as other times and it’s not too expensive anyway.
@Margaret Doyle: Christmas sales on DNA kits at the moment!
4th paragraph: “… some 56,000 femaIes and 57,000 children …”
Seriously? FemaIes? How about calling us “women”? Because that’s what we are. ls this the new PC regime? Men are caIIed men, but women are caIled femaIes?
Apart from that, it’s mind boggIing that in this country the cathoIic church stiII is aIIowed to have anything to do with vuInerable peopIe such as chiIdren or sick or eIderly. The government needs 2 start protecting its peopIe from the greedy cIaws of that criminaI sect.
Sorry for the odd way of spelling. Toxicology filter etc.
@Babs Ruch: you can hardly call 12 and 13 year old girls “women “
The reality is that most Irish adoptees get very little information over the course of their lives and the religious orders are notoriously tight lipped. The few reunions seen in the media from time to time are often called reunion porn by activists as they don’t reflect the reality for most adoptees.
I don’t know what in that story that in anyway is critical of the religious orders, and yet the author finds it understandable that people would hate them? The adoption system was/is run by the state under formal laws which they were only abiding by and, as unmentioned here, the truth is that many of these children would have been aborted if it wasn’t for the help they got from these Orders?
Its fascinating as well the story of the father trying to hold onto the child, in Ireland as well fathers have absolutely no rights in this regard, but plenty of responsibilities!
Anyway just to reply to a commentator above, there was no corpses thrown into septic tanks, you can read about all that here if you like: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/108089 .
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