During the post-war era spanning 1949 to 1976, approximately 250,000 women experienced the traumatic forced adoption of their infants, deemed unfit for motherhood by institutional authorities. Marion McMillan's harrowing personal account exemplifies this widespread systemic practice that separated vulnerable mothers from their newborns. This historical injustice reveals how societal prejudices and institutional policies systematized the removal of children from unmarried, economically disadvantaged, or socially marginalized women, leaving lasting psychological scars on both mothers and adoptees.

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