• People protest against state-enforced family separations and adoptions outside Central Family Court and Court of Protection in London, on Feb. 2. A parliamentary committee report released in July called on the U.K. government to formally apologize to unmarried mothers who were forced to give up their babies between 1949 and 1976. The committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Harriet Harman, said the bond between mothers and babies was 'brutally ruptured' over the period. | AFP-JIJI
    People protest against state-enforced family separations and adoptions outside Central Family Court and Court of Protection in London, on Feb. 2. A parliamentary committee report released in July called on the U.K. government to formally apologize to unmarried mothers who were forced to give up their babies between 1949 and 1976. The committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Harriet Harman, said the bond between mothers and babies was "brutally ruptured" over the period. | AFP-JIJI
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London – Activists have welcomed a call for the U.K. government to apologize for making unmarried mothers give up their babies decades ago, but warn that “forced adoption” is still rife today.

A parliamentary committee has said some 185,000 children were taken away for adoption between 1949 and 1976 in England and Wales, and urged an official apology.

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