Fact Sheet #24

	Homepage
	The Beginning
	The Team
	International Researchers
	Independent Groups
	William Bache & Co Solicitors
	Our Services
	Fact Sheets and Research Papers
	Survey 1000
	Media Room
	Questions Answered
	Links and Book List
	Contact Us

Fact Sheet #24: THE ADOPTION CONSPIRACY

A conspiracy theory comes in three parts: Motive. Means. Cover-up.

A good conspiracy theory has the added dimension of Evidence.

MOTIVE

FOR COERCING UNMARRIED MOTHERS OUT OF THEIR BABIES

To cure married infertility in an era when there was no treatment for infertility
To create instant families for respectable but infertile, childless married couples
To save the public purse by forcing unmarried mothers to surrender their babies for adoption

MEANS

USED TO COERCE UNMARRIED MOTHERS OUT OF THEIR BABIES

Social Workers and Moral Welfare Workers deliberately and repeatedly lied to unmarried mothers
They broke the law and contravened social work guidelines
They withheld essential information
They told unmarried mothers they had no legal rights
They told them they were not entitled to State Benefits
They told them they didn’t qualify for rent and rate free housing
They told them adoption was their only option

COVER-UP

USED TO CONCEAL FORCIBLE ADOPTION

Social Workers and Moral Welfare Workers lied when they claimed hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers voluntarily gave up their babies for adoptions
Adoptive parents were praised for rescuing unwanted illegitimate babies
The public was encouraged to believe the lie

THE EVIDENCE

PROVING THE ADOPTION CONSPIRACY

BBC television interview of a Social Worker admitting 1960’s unmarried mothers were not told of their entitlement to State Benefits that ensured they could keep and support their babies
Government figures of the State Benefits unmarried mothers were entitled to from 1948

Unmarried mothers were told from 1950–1975 that adoption was in ‘baby’s best interests'
Official admission in 1975 that adoption was not in a ‘baby’s best interests'.

Unmarried fathers in the 1960’s were told they had no legal right to keep their baby
In 1959, unmarried fathers in England were given the legal right to keep their baby
Unmarried fathers in Scotland were given this right in 1930

Social Workers and Moral Welfare Workers claimed mothers voluntarily gave up their babies
Testimonies of unmarried mothers who were forced to surrender their babies for adoption
Trackers International ’Survey 1000’ exposes the extent of illegal adoption practices 1950–1975

A PUBLIC INQUIRY IS LONG OVERDUE