Adoption ‘is for children, not for people who wish to be parents’

Sheila Wayman - The Irish Times

This article from the Irish Times calls attention to a new report from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission Investigation, highlighting how "thousands of Irish babies were put up for adoption for all the wrong reasons." "The fallout from Ireland’s shameful treatment in the past of unmarried parents and their babies is a thread that still runs through the work of the Adoption Authority of Ireland, set up just 10 years ago. In its responsibility for regulating and monitoring all adoption activities, there is also a determination that we do not play any part in repeating history with some other country’s societal outcasts," writes the author.