UK’s Starmer apologizes to mothers and children traumatized by decades of forced adoptions

An estimated 185,000 children were separated from their mothers in Britain

The Church ‌of England apologized for its role ‌last month

July 02, 2026 10:57

LONDON: British Prime ‌Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday apologized to women forced to give up their babies and to those separated from their mothers at birth by a system of forced adoptions that targeted unmarried women in the decades after World War Two.