Talk:Holy Cross Laundry

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Need to revise the site's description

I don't know how to do this myself, but the following passage from the article needs a significant rethink: "The institution, known more familiarly as the Magdalen Asylum, provided protection for unmarried mothers and women who were either destitute or deemed to be in need of institutional restraint, and for intellectually handicapped persons, regardless of creed. The adjacent laundry functioned as both a source of revenue to support the home and as a means of teaching skills and discipline." It's now widely known that the various Magdalene Laundries across Australia, like their Irish counterparts, provided anything but "protection". The inmates were in fact captive slaves, doing forced unpaid labour. The Laundries were also venues for forced adoptions, with unwed young mothers given no choice but to give up their babies (whom they never set eyes on). See, e.g., https://www.smh.com.au/world/the-slaves-of-magdalene-20131216-2zfwd.html 2403:4800:348E:4801:BC76:57D4:EB9E:50B6 (talk) 02:03, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]