Ultimately, the Standing Conference and the adoption agencies they represented wanted to maintain the myth of clean adoption, of an informed unmarried mother willingly surrendering their child in their best interests to an adoptive couple to whom they had been matched, as young as possible to develop formative attachments.
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Scandal: Society or State?
An apology is not the end, but the beginning. It is important in changing public understanding away from a mother giving her child up under social pressure, to them being taken by a state-funded and sanctioned policy run primarily by the church and voluntary organisations.