Protesting forced adoption in the UK. Image from Facebook page 'Never Give Up'
One case to have hit the headlines recently is the case of Kerry McDougall. In April 2015, Mrs. McDougall, a 22 year-old woman with moderate learning difficulties, gave birth to a third child in Ireland, after having her first two children forcibly removed from her care because social workers believed that she was "too dumb" to be a mother.
The Mirror, reporting on the story, wrote:
"In 2010 Fife social workers shocked Britain by ruling Kerry, who used to have a cleft palate and has moderate learning difficulties, was unfit to wed or be a mum.
But Kerry and Mark defied them, marrying and fleeing to Ireland when she became pregnant with her first son.
They had another boy there and she and Mark were deemed fit parents by Irish social services, who removed their sons from their register.
But when the couple returned to Fife thinking they had proved themselves, their boys were handed to a foster family.
Close to tears, Kerry said: "I can't describe what it feels like to have your children taken away, screaming for you."
Comment: Apart from a smattering of media reports and TV mentions of this abominable practice in recent years, there is very little public-available information about it. Which is apparently by design: it's illegal for the victims to talk about what has happened to them.
See also: British State Has Stolen Thousands of Children From Families it Deems 'Potential Risk' - Hundreds of Pregnant Women Fleeing UK Shores