Moving, layered piece by @david-batty.bsky.social about his meetings with his birth parents and the complex relationships these opened up.
It highlights a horrible period in the UK where unmarried women were pressured to give up their babies
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com
Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV