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'They took my children to save me… it ruined me'
'They took my children to save me… it ruined me' - Distraught mother recalls forced adoptions
A mother who was forced to give up two daughters when she was a teenager says the country is ignoring the plight of those who were made to give up their children for adoption in Ireland’s mother and baby homes.Having given birth to her first child aged 15, an emotional Sharon told RTÉ’s Liveline that her life had been ruined because her own mother had been allowed to force her to give up her children.
“It was illegal to have my children adopted because I was a minor but that didn’t matter to anyone involved,” she said.
“My mother couldn’t have done what she did without society allowing her to do so.
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“If the nuns, the religious orders, and the state bodies had stopped her, I would still have my children.
“People forget that it was the Eastern Health board ambulances that took the girls in Dublin to St James to give birth.”
Speaking on behalf of the support group ‘Irish First Mothers’ Sharon said Irish society at the time given her and many other mothers no other option but to give up their children.
A mother who was forced to give up two daughters when she was a teenager says the country is ignoring the plight of those who were made to give up their children for adoption in Ireland’s mother and baby homes.
“It was illegal to have my children adopted because I was a minor but that didn’t matter to anyone involved,” she said.
“My mother couldn’t have done what she did without society allowing her to do so.
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“If the nuns, the religious orders, and the state bodies had stopped her, I would still have my children.
“People forget that it was the Eastern Health board ambulances that took the girls in Dublin to St James to give birth.”
Speaking on behalf of the support group ‘Irish First Mothers’ Sharon said Irish society at the time given her and many other mothers no other option but to give up their children.