Abuse of unmarried mothers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:05:10 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Abuse of unmarried mothers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Ireland: Unmarried pregnant women abused in church-run homes to get record compensation https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/11/18/ireland-unmarried-pregnant-women-abused-in-church-run-homes-to-get-record-compensation/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:50:05 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=142488 Thousands of unmarried women and their children born out of wedlock who were shunned by Irish society and sought refuge in state-owned homes — where many were then abused by nuns and officials of the Roman Catholic Church — will be eligible for compensation from a new multimillion-dollar initiative the Irish government has established "in Read more

Ireland: Unmarried pregnant women abused in church-run homes to get record compensation... Read more]]> Thousands of unmarried women and their children born out of wedlock who were shunned by Irish society and sought refuge in state-owned homes — where many were then abused by nuns and officials of the Roman Catholic Church — will be eligible for compensation from a new multimillion-dollar initiative the Irish government has established "in acknowledgment of suffering experienced."

Known as "mother and baby homes," the controversial institutions were widespread in Ireland from the 1920s to the 1990s. They housed mostly young women who were cast out by their families for bearing children deemed illegitimate in a largely conservative religious society.

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