#Ireland’s prime minister said Tuesday that the country must “face up to the full truth of our past,” as a long-awaited report recounted decades of harm done by church-run homes for unmarried women and their babies, where thousands of infants died. google.com/amp/s/abcnews.…
PM Micheal Martin said young women & their children had paid a heavy price for #Ireland’s “perverse religious morality”in past decades.
“We had a completely warped attitude to sexuality & intimacy.Young mothers & their sons & daughters paid a terrible price for that dysfunction”
“We had a completely warped attitude to sexuality & intimacy.Young mothers & their sons & daughters paid a terrible price for that dysfunction”
Martin said he would make a formal apology on behalf of the state in Ireland's parliament on Wednesday.
The final report of an inquiry into the mother-and-baby homes said that 9,000 children died in 18 different mother and baby homes during the 20th century.
The final report of an inquiry into the mother-and-baby homes said that 9,000 children died in 18 different mother and baby homes during the 20th century.
Children's minister Roderic O'Gorman said the report, which contains 53 government recommendations, makes clear that unmarried mothers faced a "stifling, oppressive and brutally misogynistic culture" for decades. google.com/amp/s/news.sky…
“Mother and baby homes” were institutions where young pregnant women were sent, often under pressure from local clergy. There, they would give birth and eventually be separated from their children, who were offered up for adoption, sometimes in the US. #Ireland
Read @CaelainnH important book Republic of Shame for powerful and necessary reckoning with this heart wrenching and enraging period of Irish history 
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