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0861 |aYC17-0/421-27E-PDF
1101 |aCanada. |bParliament. |bSenate. |bStanding Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.
24514|aThe shame is ours |h[electronic resource] : |bforced adoptions of the babies of unmarried mothers in post-war Canada / |cStanding Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology ; The Honourable Art Eggleton, P.C., chair ; The Honourable Chantal Petitclerc, deputy chair ; The Honourable Judith Seidman, deputy chair.
24630|aForced adoptions of the babies of unmarried mothers in post-war Canada
260 |aOttawa : |bSenate, Canada, |c2018.
300 |avi, 21 p. : |bill.
4901 |a[Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology ; |v27th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session]
500 |aIssued also in French under title: Honte à nous : l'adoption forcée des enfants nés d’une mère célibataire pendant la période d’après-guerre au Canada.
500 |aCover title.
500 |a"July 2018."
504 |aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 |a“Post-war Canada was harshly judgemental of unmarried mothers, who faced enormous social and institutional pressure to give up their babies to “traditional” couples looking to establish their own nuclear families between the end of the war and the early 1970s. Unmarried women who had become pregnant were sometimes forced to go to maternity homes — supported by federal funds — to deliver their babies in relative secrecy. Many women had difficult experiences in these homes even before their newborns were taken from them. The committee’s report makes four recommendations, including that the federal government deliver a formal apology in Parliament within a year, and that it make reparations that would include professional counselling for survivors of Canada’s forced adoption practices"--Provided by publisher.
693 4|aAdoption--Moral and ethical aspects
693 4|aUnmarried mothers
693 4|aMother and child
693 4|aGovernment policy
7001 |aEggleton, Art, |d1943-
7001 |aPetitclerc, Chantal, |d1969-
7001 |aSeidman, Judith, |d1950-
77508|tHonte à nous |w(CaOODSP)9.859486
830#0|aReport of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology ;|v[27th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session].|w(CaOODSP)9.505256
85640|qPDF|s6.72 MB|uhttps://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/sen/yc17-0/YC17-0-421-27-eng.pdf