Forced Adoptions: Curtain lifts on decades unwed mothers in Canada Forced into giving up children

Forced Adoptions: Curtain lifts on decades unwed mothers in Canada coerced into giving up children | News | National Post:

Karen Lynn was 19 when her mother sent her to a home for unmarried pregnant women in Clarkson, Ont., in 1963. There, she was known as Karen No. 1 to protect her family’s reputation, and said it was clear she would not have been allowed to stay there if she did not agree to an adoption. A year later, Sharon Pedersen was 20-years-old when she was drugged and tied to her bed during labour and then shown four different babies through the nursery window at a hospital in Victoria, she said.