From a CNN note today: A landmark report out of Ireland reveals thousands of mothers and babies died in church-run institutions known as “mother and baby homes” between 1922 and 1998. Such homes were places where unwed women and girls were sent, often against their will, to deliver their children in secret. In all, around 56,000 people, sometimes as young as 12, were sent to the 18 institutions investigated in the report. One in seven of some 57,000 children born in these institutions didn’t survive long enough to leave. Irish Prime Minister Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the report "opens a window onto a deeply misogynistic culture in Ireland over several decades" and said he is planning an official state apology to survivors.
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