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unmarried mums in the 1940s
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suzian | Report | 1 Mar 2008 20:58 |
Can anyone help me to understand how unmarried mums were treated in the 1940s? I don't mean whether they were ostracised or such - I'm interested in any arrangements that may have existed for them to have their children away from their families. Were there any societies active in this area of work? Were adoptions organised by local authorities or societies, and if the latter, which ones? |
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Whirley | Report | 1 Mar 2008 21:01 |
Hi Sue.mwaoh........ |
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suzian | Report | 1 Mar 2008 21:15 |
Hi Whirls |
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Abigail | Report | 1 Mar 2008 23:16 |
Hello there! |
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suzian | Report | 1 Mar 2008 23:18 |
Thanks Abigail. |
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Whirley | Report | 1 Mar 2008 23:20 |
No probs Sue,,,,,,,,,Hi hun, long time no speak,,,,,,yes will pm you..xx |
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suzian | Report | 1 Mar 2008 23:22 |
cheers Whirls |
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Lyndi | Report | 3 Mar 2008 23:50 |
My half brother was born in 1943. Our mother was sent to a mother-and-baby home some 20 miles from home, but she ran away and went back home, where my grandfather persuaded my grandmother to let her stay. |
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Linda | Report | 4 Mar 2008 11:04 |
We had a unmarried mothers hostel in oxford all girls were threatened with thats where u will go if you get pregnant, this was in the 50s/60s Found out my gran had was unmattied mother in 1913 but looks like she was allowed to stay at home and she kept her baby, she married my gramp when child was 3 !! didnt have an easy life though |
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Lindsey* | Report | 4 Mar 2008 11:45 |
It was certainly treated as the girls fault, there seems to be no records of errant fathers or making the men pay for taking advantage of the poor girls.. |
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(`•¿•`) Loopy § Lady Ŀindy (`•¿-`) | Report | 4 Mar 2008 11:48 |
The Law up to 1959, said that girls under the age of 16, who became pregnant, could be put in a Mental Institution. This Law was repealed in 1959. But in 1991, there was still a mother in a Mental Home for this very reason. |
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Linda | Report | 4 Mar 2008 12:07 |
apart from the old joke on my part( i must have been mental to have kids) it was tough on the girls and the poor lady that was in the mental home, feel so sorry for her and the many others it happened to |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 4 Mar 2008 15:59 |
My late fil fathered a child when he was 19, in 1929. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 4 Mar 2008 17:04 |
I think mostly the Mothers were put in Mother and baby homes and in many cases the mothers had to give up their babies for adoption almost immediately after birth. Even in the late 60s when we were foster parents parents had the say as to whether or not a child was kept or adopted. One of our foster babies had a sixteen year old Mother who had not wanted to have him adopted but her parents insisted. Poor girl used to visit him at our house until he was adopted, she would bring him presents of new clothes as well. He was five days old when we had him and only weighed 5 pounds. Can you imagine having your baby taken from you while you still had the pain of the milk? |
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suzian | Report | 4 Mar 2008 21:48 |
Many thanks everyone who has taken the trouble to reply. That's really helpful. |
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sarah | Report | 19 Jan 2015 19:49 |
My Great Aunt was send away off her farm to Sheffield to her Aunt and Uncle who had a grocers shop to have the Baby. The Aunt and Uncle wanted to adopt the baby themselves but the rest of the family intervened. The baby was born in Sheffield hospital and adopted by the Doctor that was caring for my Great Aunt. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 19 Jan 2015 20:25 |
Is this the great aunt who had the baby you are looking for or the baby ? |
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Sharron | Report | 19 Jan 2015 23:25 |
My aunt had a baby and her married sister brought her up as her own with her own two sons. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 20 Jan 2015 09:26 |
One of my grannys had a large family. Two of her daughters had children during ww2 out of wedlock. The babies were kept in the family, both became millionaires one in Oz. Granny herself never married her husband! |
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