Taken

13 Foreword

15 Introduction

19 About historic forced adoption

25 Adoption apology and redress

31 Personal experiences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

131 Jan 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."

143 Lin 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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

279 Justice in sight

291 Political remedy

302 Copyright acknowledgements

303 Bibliography

310 Further resources