US EditionDutch Cabinet to Apologize for Forced Child Removals in Decades-Old Adoption Cases
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Before the summer, the cabinet will offer official apologies to birth mothers and their relinquished children. That decision follows a years-long fight for recognition and redress. "A great injustice has been committed, resulting in unnecessary suffering."
"For those affected, apologies from the government are a starting point for the recognition of this suffering," State Secretary Van Bruggen writes to the House of Representatives.
Dutch cabinet to apologize for forced child removals in decades-old adoption cases
The Dutch cabinet said in a Monday parliamentary letter, signed by State Secretary for Justice and Security Claudia van Bruggen, that it will formally apologize to people affected by the forced removal of children in the second half of the last century. The letter responds to a June 2025 report by the Commission on Domestic Relinquishment and Adoption.
The cabinet is going to formally apologize to birth mothers and their children. In the last century, over 13,000 mothers were often forced to give up their newborn babies. This usually involved unmarried women in institutions such as Moederheil in Breda and Huize De Bocht in Goirle. Between 1956 and 1984, women were forced to give up their newborn babies under pressure from family members, the church, and agencies such as the Child Protection Co…
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