‘We can’t tell at home.’ If they ever told at home, it was usually the mother they told, and the father [of the pregnant woman] would not be told. They usually stayed about six months.”At the time, the Colgans knew nothing at all about mother and baby homes. “I told my parents one evening, my mother kept saying, ‘There’s something wrong with you, what is it?’“So I told her, and sure Jesus, the world collapsed. “On the second day, the doctor said, ‘Come on, I must examine you’, and he brought me into the surgery and told me take all my clothes off and get up on the couch. But as recently as 2013, Doyle encountered a concealed pregnancy, where nobody in the family knew anything.

Source: The Irish Times February 06, 2021 06:00 UTC