UK’s Starmer apologises for the state’s role in decades of forced adoptions

UK Prime Minister Starmer has apologized for the government's role in a systematic program of forced adoptions that devastated families across Britain. According to Al Jazeera, between nineteen forty-nine and nineteen seventy-six, the state and Christian churches separated one hundred eighty-five thousand babies from their mothers. The apology marks the first official acknowledgment of a practice that has long been minimized or denied, offering long-overdue recognition to the families affected.

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