How the State stole
my daughter
Daily Mail FEMAIL
HOMEPAGE 17th January 2007
by AMANDA CABLE
Reunited
at last
Yvonne Coulter is on a high. Her teenage daughter, Tammy, has been arguing
with her younger brother and the house is filled with excited shrieks. Their
mother beams with pride.
'I asked them to help with the drying up and they started flicking each
other with the dish towels. I watched them play-fight and just couldn't stop
smiling. I thought: "This is the way it is meant to be."
While most mothers would be admonishing teenagers for such noisy horseplay,
Yvonne is loving every minute.
Seventeen years ago, when she was just 17 herself, the baby daughter she
adored was wrenched from her by Social Services after bumping her head in an
accident. Gauche, unworldly and terrified, Yvonne found herself trapped in a
bureaucratic nightmare - forced to watch as her healthy and happy child was
taken first into foster care and then adopted.
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