Adoption case study: ‘It’s a tragedy I wasn’t given my birth cert’

I don't know how many times I tried... to look for my mother in New Zealand... each time they blocked it... saying my mother was dead... or that they could not find her... why were there so many lies told to us... they changed my name... and left me with a number 61...
you think that it does not hurt... not knowing that your mother was so close... and yet not to be able to call her... your mother... as a child that was all that I wanted... a mother to hold me... a mother to run to...  Ann

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David Kinsella was illegitimate child number 1629 at St Patrick’s mother-and-baby home in the late 1950s.

For years, it was the only information he had about his identity. His request for information about his birth mother ran into brick walls of State-sanctioned secrecy.

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