We know that official policy, even today, can result in heartless and inhumane outcomes. As I sit to write this article, anger is growing at the terrible things that happened in mother and baby homes in our country.
Young women forcibly separated, first of all from their communities, then from any sense of pride or self-worth, then from their babies. And their babies neglected, starved, illnesses untreated, labelled worthless, and ultimately buried in unmarked mass graves.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/news-opinion/women-still-being-seen-outcasts-3745241
Young women forcibly separated, first of all from their communities, then from any sense of pride or self-worth, then from their babies. And their babies neglected, starved, illnesses untreated, labelled worthless, and ultimately buried in unmarked mass graves.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/news-opinion/women-still-being-seen-outcasts-3745241