ROYAL Women's Hospital has apologised for taking children from mothers, after a report revealed its role in the policy.
Of the 5000 babies born to single women at the hospital from 1945 to 1975, around a quarter were adopted out, a study by Australian Catholic University's Shurlee Swain found.
Hospital chief executive Dale Fisher said she hoped the revelations, commissioned by the hospital, would be accepted as evidence of its regret over the devastation caused to mothers and adoptees.
Hospital sorry for 'stealing' women's babies
