Thousands of Canadian Mothers Were Forced To Give Up Their Babies. Some Were Told To 'Get A Puppy'
Source: Washington Post
TORONTO — Their stories would not seem out of place in an episode of “The Handmaid's Tale”: pregnant women shuttered away, violently restrained during childbirth, banned from looking at their babies — and, finally, coerced by social workers into signing adoption papers.
More than a half-century after unmarried and largely non-consenting Canadian women were sent to maternity homes to give birth in relative secrecy, a report released Thursday by a Senate committee acknowledges a “disturbing chapter” in Canadian history, when the country’s adoption policies led to hundreds of thousands of unwed mothers being forced to give up their babies for adoption.
The report calls on the federal government to issue a formal apology for what it characterizes as a “common practice” from 1945 to the 1970s that has been “shrouded in secrecy.”
“There is another Scoop that needs to be acknowledged,” Art Eggleton, the senator who chaired the committee, told reporters. (He was referring to the “Sixties Scoop,” a 1960s government program that separated thousands of indigenous children from their families and put them up for adoption by non-indigenous parents.)...more..
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The report says that the “unethical” policy was in part rooted in the societal mores of the postwar period, when the social stigma of unwed women having “illegitimate” children and raising them in a nontraditional “nuclear family” was so significant that many women were sent to wait out their pregnancies at maternity homes, often run by religious groups or the Salvation Army..
According to Origins Canada, a nonprofit that helps people who have been separated from family members by adoption, it was thought that women who gave birth at maternity homes could be “made marriageable” again or “rehabilitated.”
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It was, as they say:
"the “unethical” policy was in part rooted in the societal mores of the postwar period, when the social stigma of unwed women having “illegitimate” children and raising them in a nontraditional “nuclear family” was so significant that many women were sent to wait out their pregnancies at maternity homes, often run by religious groups or the Salvation Army..
Homes for unwed mothers.
Young women sent away to carry their pregnancy to full term & only occasionally did they return with their child.
Only with the debut of the women's movement (thank you Gloria Steinam et al) and the 'The Pill' were young women gradually recognized as having ownership over their reproductive rights.
The days referred to in the artucle is when Trump & his KKKristians yearn to return to.
The days when Patriarchy "made America great", for godly white men, only.
I recall the State I grew up in did this same thing to Native American children.
Normalized them in the world of patriarchial white men.
Laws were changed since then and Native children now remain 1st with their Native families.
That is why I fully support Dem Sharice Davids for Kansas' 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House
BIO
Sharice Davids is a dedicated community leader who is running to fight for Kansans in Congress.
She was raised by her single mother, who is a U.S. Army veteran, in Leavenworth and learned the value of hard work and service from a young age.
As a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Sharice could make history as the first Native American woman elected to Congress. “It wasn't part of my decision. [...] but I'm definitely proud to be part of this time in history,” she has said.
Sharice studied business administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and received her law degree from Cornell Law School.
She worked for a law firm in Kansas City on issues including economic development for Native American tribes.
She then went on to live and work on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Sharice served as a White House Fellow during the final year of the Obama administration.
Most recently, Sharice hosted a podcast called “Starty Pants,” where she interviewed entrepreneurs and investors.
She has also competed in mixed martial arts tournaments, fighting both professionally and as an amateur.
In addition to making history as the first Native American woman in Congress, Sharice could also be the first openly gay member of the Kansas congressional delegation and the first Democratic woman to represent the 3rd District.
An opportunity to flip a seat and take back the House
Sharice is challenging Congressman Kevin Yoder, a vulnerable Republican who has been advancing his party’s dangerous agenda at the expense of the working families he was elected to serve.
“Kevin Yoder no longer represents the people of Kansas,” she has said. “He is now a rubber stamp for the Trump administration and the big-money donors who have fueled his campaigns.”
This is an opportunity to flip a seat and win back the House for Democrats.
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Honestly, this remarkable young woman embodies the Past, Present & Future face of America.
Honor, dignity, fairness & fight.
What an Impressive candidate we have been given to carry our torch forward this year.
She represents every person that Trump's White Male Patriarchy mocks & refuses to represent.
No woman or man who recognizes the struggle as written in the OP article, should be voting against a woman who has lived their similar struggles.
VOTE SHARICE DAVIDS ~ Kansas' 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House
She is truly the epitome of the struggle of the American woman.
Love all she is.
Vote Sharice, donate to support her through her campaign & thru the greatest advocates for women in politics, EMILYS LIST.
They are the Women's 'Union' for advancing women in politics, to keep women's rights a human right, once & for all ~
Notice what groups are suddenly out there vocally denouncing EMILYS LIST.
Yup, same ones working to destroy the Democratic Party, of all citizens.
The harder they try to break us, the stronger a force we become.
It was emotionally painful for me but as an adoptee I wanted to know a bit how my bio mother might have felt (it must have been even more painful for her since she didn't give me up until I was 9 months old). I've since found my bio families (thanks to DNA testing and sleuthing) and learned from a maternal half sibling that our mother mourned having to give me up until the day she died of brain cancer in her early 50s. 
