Episode 4: Dianne Wells
In 1969, Queensland teenager Dianne Wells was in love and dreaming of a happy new life with her first boyfriend where she’d have children and a home of her own. Tragically, those dreams came crashing down when the sixteen-year-old discovered she was pregnant out of wedlock. Abandoned by her partner, and shamed by both families, Dianne was sent to live with strangers in another town where she found herself at the mercy of a system which sanctioned the theft of more than 150,000 newborn babies – all callously and systematically taken from young, vulnerable unmarried mothers under the Government’s forced adoption practices of the era. Today, Dianne revisits that dark chapter in her life and tells us about the anguish of losing her much-wanted baby daughter and the lifelong destruction their forced separation caused to her. --- The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1 Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major Supported by Origins Australia Audio Production & Sound Design by Wood Work Digital StudioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.