How much better we treat kids nowadays

[Derek Smith]

My grandmother, together with her twin brother, was taken from her mother and placed in a workhouse run by nuns. They waited until she could perform work profitably they only gave accommodation and gruel. And beatings. My grandmothers twin brother died on his first day there after being locked in a cupboard.

She ran away at 15, fled to Liverpool and married a bloke there.

The think that I always believed after hearing her story was that at least those times were over. However, I'm a doctor. You can trust me:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116175/Th...

This follows that Spanish nun, Mara Gmez Valbuena, who is accused of being part of a sort of syndicate which was involved in taking hundreds of children from their parents and selling them to couples to adopt. http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/15/inenglish/1331...

Real horror and really quite astounding.

[MX7]

The Spanish story goes back half a decade. The Mail story is an obvious malpractice.

We generally treat kids much better nowadays. I think the only continuous and constant failing is the adoption process.

[Derek Smith]

MX7 said:

The Spanish story goes back half a decade.

So that would be five years then? I'd call that nowadays.

[MX7]

Derek Smith said:

MX7 said:

The Spanish story goes back half a decade.

So that would be five years then? I'd call that nowadays.

"The Madrid public prosecutor has charged a Catholic nun in connection with an ongoing investigation into cases of stolen babies, which allegedly took place in hospitals from the 1950s up until the early 1980s."

"Prosecutors have decided that there is sufficient evidence to file charges against Sister Mara in one case, based on a womans testimony that her daughter was taken from her in 1982"

There was a BBC programme last year, and it was very much a Franco phenomenon. Children of communists were stolen so they could be raised by people who were sympathetic towards Franco.

Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie

[eccles]

MX7 said:

Derek Smith said:

MX7 said:

The Spanish story goes back half a decade.

So that would be five years then? I'd call that nowadays.

"The Madrid public prosecutor has charged a Catholic nun in connection with an ongoing investigation into cases of stolen babies, which allegedly took place in hospitals from the 1950s up until the early 1980s."

"Prosecutors have decided that there is sufficient evidence to file charges against Sister Mara in one case, based on a womans testimony that her daughter was taken from her in 1982"

There was a BBC programme last year, and it was very much a Franco phenomenon. Children of communists were stolen so they could be raised by people who were sympathetic towards Franco.

Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie

Did you mean half a century?

[MX7]

eccles said:

Did you mean half a century?

Possibly!

[carmonk]

The nuns gave the priests a run for their money where child abuse was concerned.

[EDLT]

Dr Hibbert.

Hur-hur-hur-hur-hur-hur-hur.