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« on: Monday 23 February 09 17:06 GMT (UK) »
Lets remove the rosy coloured glasses about adoption please. Adoption was a way of providing babies for infertile people. Babies were wrenched from the arms of their natural mothers. Most of these women had no choice other than to give up their babies. They were told they had no choice that they would be shunned by their family and neighbours, nobody would take them in. They had to be really strong to withstand the pressure put upon them to give up their beloved babies so that other infertile women could have the pleasure of bringing them up.
Social Workers and Moral Welfare Workers justified infant adoption on the emotive pretext 'adoption is in baby's best interests', but adoption was never in the 'best interests' of a baby that was loved and cared for by its own mother, nor was it in the 'best interests ' of a mother who had not abused, abandoned or neglected her baby and whose right to keep it was established in Law and endorsed by the Government in 1948, when it gave unmarried mothers the same State benefits as young widowed mothers, (with additional entitlements and rent- and rate-free housing).
The only beneficieries of infant adoption were adopters, and although some adopted a baby out of a genuine love of children many more had unhealthy or ulteria motives. Mentally unfit, emotionally disturbed, childless married women were also allowed to adopt.
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