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Old 06-10-2006, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by andromeda
The papers could not be signed until a girl was released from the hospital section of the home (generally 5 days) and a girl could hold and feed her baby only after the papers were signed. I think they were quite cagey and thought they had the perfect solution to changed minds or girls who would refuse to sign.

It was a power issue with the home definitely keeping the power while trying to appease a girl who wanted to see and hold her baby.

That was actually illegal. No one has a legal right to keep a mother from her baby. Talk about coercion!!
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