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Lancashire / Re: single mothers home run by nuns
« on: Sunday 05 July 20 15:22 BST (UK) »
Hello, My name is Julie
I Was in St. Theresa's Home for Unmarried mothers in 1984 the year it closed. At the time I was pregnant with my daughter. The home was awful even then, and the nuns would say and do such cruel things. I met women there who had come from Ireland pregnant to have their babies. It was a different time then and they'd apparently brought shame on their families. Nearly all of these women from what I remember, gave birth in the home, very few went to the hospital. Not many seemed to keep their babies though and nobody seemed to know where the babies went either. I eventually left and returned to a violent partner which at that time seemed a better option. It seems unimaginable to think the last of these homes only closed in the 80s.
I Was in St. Theresa's Home for Unmarried mothers in 1984 the year it closed. At the time I was pregnant with my daughter. The home was awful even then, and the nuns would say and do such cruel things. I met women there who had come from Ireland pregnant to have their babies. It was a different time then and they'd apparently brought shame on their families. Nearly all of these women from what I remember, gave birth in the home, very few went to the hospital. Not many seemed to keep their babies though and nobody seemed to know where the babies went either. I eventually left and returned to a violent partner which at that time seemed a better option. It seems unimaginable to think the last of these homes only closed in the 80s.