The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.
In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.
Imagine reading this headline and instantly jumping to this in your head.
Since nobody seems capable of remembering women can be monsters too, I thought I’d help y’all remember for the next time you have the impulse to villify men.
If it was an order of male monks found with 800 dead babies, “men are absolute monsters” would absolutely among the top comments.
Just the age we live in.