The missing kids

Right now I want you to imagine. First of all, imagine you're a single mom to be and you live in a country in which being a single mom is something that is not accepted, you decide to give your baby on adoption, still you change your mind, maybe when you're delivering your child, and you're not allowed to see it because someone tells you that you'll change your mind again, that you don't really want it, that it's because of the hormones, and you never get to see your child and it is entered on the register as the child of another woman so you can never claim your rights over it. Now imagine you're a married woman and you're really excited about the fact of having a child, you get to the hospital because you're going to deliver, a few hours and you'll see your child for the first time! You go through everything and when you're supposed to get to see your child they tell you that it is sick so they have to put it under observation, and maybe the same day or the day after they tell you it has died because of otitis or any other reason, and they tell you they've already buried it, so once again you don't get to see your child, and on the same day a non-pregnant woman gets to have your child as if it was her own.

It's not fiction, that happened in Spain during the dictatorship and, actually, until early 90's. But it's been lately that everything has become uncovered and yesterday a documentary was aired in Catalan television where they had interviewed some missing kids, some mothers and even some people that was responsible for it. It was tough, but people need to know this happened. That's why I'm writing this post, because, maybe, if I'm lucky enough some people will read this post and spread the word. I know that there's people from the States that sometimes ends up in this blog and people from Canada and Denmark (yeah maybe 2 or 3 persons per country),  so if any of you actually reads it and wants to spread the word, feel free.