Sunday, January 30, 2011

"El País" on Franco's stolen children

The story made headlines this week: between the 1950s and the 1980s hundreds, maybe thousands, of children were taken away from their mothers -often very young, unmarried, in the process of divorce, or considered social outsiders- immediately after birth and sold to affluent couples who couldn't have children of their own. The biological mothers were told that their child had been born dead; they were presented with a death certificate but never shown the corpse. A lot of the children never knew that the parents they had known as theirs from earliest memory were not their biological parents. Involved in this massive robbery of children were nurses, nuns, priests, and officials of the birth registries. The Spanish daily El País has this article on the topic, in English.

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