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Face the Facts: Forced Adoption and the Mums on the Run

Forced Adoption and the Mums on the Run

15/01/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Face the Facts, Forced Adoption and the Mums on the Run

The underground networks helping mums on the run from social services and forced adoptions

The 'mums on the run' who have fled the country to avoid having their children forcibly adopted, and the networks of sympathisers which help them set up new lives overseas.

Hundreds of parents have already fled the UK to avoid having their children forcibly adopted by social services. And more will follow, it's predicted , as the number of contested adoptions continues to rise. John Waite meets some of the "mums on the run" and some of the clandestine support networks that are helping them. Providing shelter, food, advice and money - all the things that are necessary for a new life abroad.

He also hears of growing international concern about the actions of British social workers, most notoriously in the case last month of an Italian woman who was forced into giving birth and having her child put up for adoption because she was deemed to be a risk to its safety. 

Presenter: John Waite
Producer: Joe Kent
Editor: Andrew Smith.

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