Adoption gives many children a good chance | Letters

Anne Rogers writes that adoption can be the best outcome for some children, even when it goes against the wishes of birth parents. Plus letters from Cat Bracey and Graham Whitaker

Christine Hayes (Letters, 22 June) is right to remind us all that the reason so many babies were adopted in the 1960s (and earlier, before birth control was available to women) was because society condemned single mothers, even though sex outside of marriage was nothing remotely new.

But I will not accept the implication that forced adoptions were shameful to everyone. I feel no shame to have been adopted as a baby in 1948. It allowed me to grow up without those societal prejudices, in a loving family who made no secret about my adoption. I am sure I am not alone in this experience.