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Eugenics-and-Poor-laws-influence-in-Australian-Adoption-Timeline

by | May 18, 2021 | Member Contributions

By Darryl Nelson As an adopted person born in the 1960s, I undertook this research in order to understand how, in a so-called ‘civilised’ society, to forcibly remove a baby from its mother and supply to another family was deemed acceptable. As Australia is a...

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