Those 'unwanted' children were placed in orphanages where they were misused as servants and abused by nuns and staff.
I believe, however, that most of us are unaware of what happened to the large number of the children who were given up for adoption in Quebec at that time but who were never actually adopted. Most of us are aware of the situation a girl of the age of 15 would have been in in 1950s society if she found herself pregnant. It also shares the history of the times in Quebec including the divide between the French and the English. Set in 1950s French Canada, it tells the tale of a young woman who is forced by her family to give up her daughter for adoption and in lesser part, the tale of the daughter in the Canadian system. Joanna Goodman's The Home for Unwanted Girls is a fictionalized account of a true story.
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