"He said, 'This is what you have to do: she has to go to a home for unmarried mothers, she'll have the baby, it'll be adopted, and then life goes on and she'll forget all about it'."
"The amount is not as much as we hoped but it will make a difference to the lives of many mothers,"Ms Smith said.
"She had a baby who was adopted when I was 10 years old, four years before I became pregnant,"Mrs Hudson said.
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