On Sunday’s 60 Minutes Tara Brown seems to the legacy of single pregnant girls in Australia within the Nineteen Fifties – Seventies and what a lot of them sadly endured.
Bitter Capsule
It’s a scandal that’s arduous to imagine. Within the Nineteen Fifties, 60s and 70s as many as 100 and fifty thousand younger Australian girls have been coerced into giving up their infants. The explanation? They weren’t married. For the overwhelming majority it was a heartbreaking torment. However as Tara Brown reveals on this 60 Minutes particular report, there was worse to return. Tens of 1000’s of those teenage moms, perhaps extra, have been then made to take a drug to cease their provide of breast milk. What they weren’t advised, regardless of it being extensively recognized on the time, was that Stilboestrol, additionally known as DES, was linked to most cancers and different critical ailments. It’s a bitter capsule that has not solely wreaked havoc on the ladies, however they now worry they’ve handed on its horrible curse to their subsequent kids and grandchildren.
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producer: Laura Sparkes
8:35pm Sunday on 9
