Netherlands investigates 10,000 cases of forced adoptions
A mother denounces the State for forcing her to give up her son. The cases occurred between 1956 and 1984.
More than 10,000 Dutch teenagers and young people, all of them single mothers, were forced to leave their children for adoption between 1956 and 1984, pressured by their families and by the public bodies that attended them, whether they were shelters, Child Protection , social workers or doctors. One of them, Trudy Scheele-Gertsen, has filed the first complaint of its kind against the State for the pain caused.
Biological mothers and fathers in the same situation, but above all their children, belong to a generation that Eugénie Smits van Waesberghe, adopted in 1970, describes as "forgotten" in her own country. They seek justice, and they expect it from the Government, that on September 30 will open an investigation into what happened during the three decades indicated.
In 1956 the Adoption Law was passed in Holland. In 1984, the Abortion Law, and between both dates, “you could not fight