This book challenges the orthodoxy that white, unmarried mothers 'chose' to give up their babies for adoption. Rather it articulates an alternate narrative detailing their systemic abuse that includes administering mind-altering drugs, illegal coercion and medical assaults perpetrated because of the demand by infertile couples for their babies. The abuses justified by a eugenic ideology that stripped these women of all rights. Since colonisation Australia's child welfare policy has been an instrument of social control and cruelty. Children and their mothers have been victims of brutal...