Unwed mothers forced to give up children demand government apology
Thousands of unwed Kiwi mothers had their babies taken away from them during the post-war decades. Nearing the ends of their lives many are still fighting for a government apology, as Katie Doyle reports.
Kaaren Svendsen curled up on a hospital bed and sobbed as the cries of her stolen newborn echoed in her head.
She’d been asking nurses where her baby was as she recovered from giving birth.
“I went looking for her. I could hear her crying. I knew that she was the baby that was crying because all the other babies were out with their mothers being fed.
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