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The shame is ours : forced adoptions of the babies of unmarried mothers in post-war Canada / Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology ; The Honourable Art Eggleton, P.C., chair...: YC17-0/421-27E-PDF

“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.

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.
TitleThe shame is ours : forced adoptions of the babies of unmarried mothers in post-war Canada / Standing 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.
Variant title
  • Forced adoptions of the babies of unmarried mothers in post-war Canada
Series title
  • [Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology ; 27th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session]
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued 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.
  • Cover title.
  • "July 2018."
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa : Senate, Canada, 2018.
Author / Contributor
  • Eggleton, Art, 1943-
  • Petitclerc, Chantal, 1969-
  • Seidman, Judith, 1950-
Descriptionvi, 21 p. : ill.
Catalogue number
  • YC17-0/421-27E-PDF
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