🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer apologises on behalf of the British state for its role in historical forced adoptions Around 185,000 unmarried mothers were made to give up their babies between the 1950s and 1970s"The shame is not yours. The shame was never yours.

The British government plans to formally apologize for separating unmarried mothers from their babies, a practice that lasted until the 1970s.

Between 1949 and 1976, an estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers and placed for adoption in England and Wales