Rutherglen MSP is looking to hear from families affected by 'heart-breaking' adoption practices

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Rutherglen's MSP is looking to hear from women and families affected by "heart-breaking" historical adoption practices.Clare Haughey made the call as a new website was launched to help people share their experiences.Throughout the 1950s ,60s and 70s a number of new-born babies were unnecessarily taken away from unmarried mothers and placed for adoption, without any regard to the mothers and children’s own needs or wishes.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Ms Haughey, who is also the Scottish Government's Minister for Children and Young People as well as the Rutherglen MSP, has now stated she hopes people will be willing to come forward and speak up, with a questionnaire also available.

She told Lanarkshire Live: "It is heart-breaking that in the past there were practices which resulted in some women feeling forced to give up their children.