Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Forced adoption was the practice of taking the babies of unmarried mothers against their will and putting them up for adoption. Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered a national apology to those affected by forced adoptions in 2013. The Senate Inquiry Report into forced adoption practices found that babies were taken illegally by doctors, nurses, social workers and religious figures, sometimes with the assistance of adoption agencies or other authorities, and adopted out to married couples. Mothers were coerced, drugged and illegally had their consent taken. Many of these adoptions occurred after the mothers were sent away by their families "due to the stigma associated with being pregnant and unmarried". The removals occurred predominately in the second half of the twentieth century as some young mothers who were seen as unfit for motherhood had their children adopted out against their will. It was a practice which has been described as 'institutionalised baby farming'.. }
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- Forced_adoption_in_Australia abstract "Forced adoption was the practice of taking the babies of unmarried mothers against their will and putting them up for adoption. Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered a national apology to those affected by forced adoptions in 2013. The Senate Inquiry Report into forced adoption practices found that babies were taken illegally by doctors, nurses, social workers and religious figures, sometimes with the assistance of adoption agencies or other authorities, and adopted out to married couples. Mothers were coerced, drugged and illegally had their consent taken. Many of these adoptions occurred after the mothers were sent away by their families "due to the stigma associated with being pregnant and unmarried". The removals occurred predominately in the second half of the twentieth century as some young mothers who were seen as unfit for motherhood had their children adopted out against their will. It was a practice which has been described as 'institutionalised baby farming'.".