How a woman met her birth mother for the first time at her wedding | 7.30

Throughout the 20th century thousands of unmarried pregnant women were forced to give up their babies for adoption.

The policy caused immense grief and tore families apart.

This is the remarkable story of how one woman met her mother, decades after she was taken away at birth.

Cason Ho and Claire Moodie have the story.

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