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.

  • @Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    222 hours ago

    Numbers 31:18

    But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

    You can keep the “religion defines what we find civil as a society.” Miss me with all of the shit.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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      121 hours ago

      Id say religion tends to be more of a reflection of what a society finds as civil. Look at other religions around the world, or historical religions and there are some things that would be entirely unacceptable in my local society at least.

      • @Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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        121 hours ago

        I find them more to be a reflection of a small group. Then it is pushed on others to force them to assimilate. Christianity, Hindism, Islam, Judaism, and every other group has “do what we say or else.”