Taken

13Foreword

15Introduction

19About historic forced adoption

25Adoption apology and redress

31Personal experiences

35Karen: "My legacy to my son - intergenerational trauma."

41Linda: "I actually thought I had a choice about the adoption."

53Sally: "You will never get over the one that you lost."

61Monica: "Why didn't the girls of my era fight? That makes me feel guiltier."

75Diana: "They were clearly more concerned with what other people thought."

89Anne: "I suspect the Government will hang it out until we are all dead."

97Jan: "The amount outstanding for David is £2.6.8d ..."

105Pat: "It was always the girl's fault."

115Anita: "They had a very strict timetable about when they wanted babies to be born."

123Dawn: "I don't want any money. I just want the Government to admit what happened."

131Jan and Gaynor, mother and daughter: "I can't say I was forced into surrendering my baby, I ... had no other option."

"They did spend most of their lives playing us off against each other."

143Lin and Mark, mother and son: "He said, 'I think you're my mother,' and I said, 'I think you're my son.'"

"I always had this nagging feeling at the back of my mind, who am I?"

161Marie: "My daughter was whisked away..."

165Rachel: "She could never be my mother because I had my mother."

173Jane: "Even rape was hushed up ..."

183Nickie: "You're going to do what you're told to do, especially if you're in trouble."

191Wendy: "It's well recognised in America that adoption attracts narcissists."

203Anna: "My mother was looking for a perfect daughter, but I could never be that."

213Eddie: "I'd never actually looked at anybody else that shared any of my features."

227Judy: "How many babies died of neglect in those homes as Judy's did?"

239Jill: "I looked in the mirror and I thought to myself, who am I?"

249Susie: "It's a lie that parents who are not your natural parents are going to be better."

263Kenneth: "They had no idea that my birth mother had actually lived."

273Tina: "There's someone out there that I need to connect with."

279Justice in sight

291Political remedy

302Copyright acknowledgements

303Bibliography

310Further resources