Recently, the Investigation Committee of Irish Maternal and Child Home released a report, revealing that from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, there were 9,000 bizarre deaths in eight maternal and child homes in Ireland/KLOC-0. According to the report, these maternal and child homes have been controlled by the church for more than 70 years, because in Irish history, social traditions are conservative, and women who are pregnant before marriage will be discriminated against by members of society. In order to solve the problem of unmarried women's fertility, in the early 1920s, some religious groups began to set up mother and baby homes. In the mother-infant home, nuns are trained nurses and midwives, and unmarried pregnant single women will be sent to the mother-infant home to give birth. According to the number of mothers and children in the mother-and-baby home, the local government will pay nuns 65,438+0 a week according to the number of heads. Unmarried mothers need to live in a maternal and child home for one year and work for free in return for the services of nuns. If there are two unmarried pregnancies, the woman will be sent to work in the laundry. After one year, mothers can leave the mother-infant home, but their children will be left behind, and the children may be adopted or sent to boarding schools when they grow up.
This report says that there is a mother-and-baby home? Human trafficking? In the system, mothers and children are regarded as trading commodities, and the mother-infant home has not found a suitable adoptive family for children. In the 1940s, the mortality rate of children in maternal and child homes in Bessborough reached 82%. When the local government held the mother-and-baby home accountable, some surveys found that from 1930s to 1940s, the local government and public health departments kept receiving information about the death of children in the mother-and-baby home, but the government did not take effective measures, and the mother-and-baby homes in other places were not much better.
According to the report, 1/7 children failed to leave the mother-and-baby home. Although the local government knew that the death rate of the mother-and-baby home was high, it did not take corresponding measures. O 'Sullivan's mother left the mother-infant home one year after giving birth. She wanted to take the child back, but the nun told her that the child had been sent to America. But in fact, when O 'Sullivan was ten months old, he was placed in another mother and baby home in southwest Ireland. Later, due to perforation of eardrum and chronic ear infection, he was adopted by a family. However, the mother-infant home did not tell the adoptive family that there was something wrong with the child's ear, and it was useless to provide any medical information. After the child became an adult, he kept looking for his biological mother and finally found his mother at the age of 33. Moreover, in the mother-infant home, not only the children are tortured, but also the mothers are spared. The nuns deprived the mothers of their personal freedom and asked them to forgive themselves.
With the progress of the times, maternal and child homes have gradually been eliminated by history. 1996, the last maternity home in Ireland was closed, and unmarried women could give birth in their own homes without strong interference.