Who are the magdelen sisters?

Question

my teacher was talking about them to someone else about that they took babies offer people but what actually happened? x

Answer 1

The Magdelene Sisters where an order of Nuns in Ireland that took in usually young unwed catholic mums to be. They used the girls to work in various areas, the most notorious being launderies where nuns and priests garments were washed. Various bisnesses used the laundries too thinking they were supporting charitable works. Conditions were harsh and the nuns had a reputation for being unforgin=ving. The babies when born were often forcibly removed from their mothers and fostered out. The girls found it difficult to leave as they had to be signed out by a male family member. Such was the stigma that sometimes the girls remained for many years! The last Magdelen laundry closed in Ireland in the 1970's! A google search will give you more detail. A film and a book called the Magdelene sisters is also available.

Answer 2

The magdaline sisters is a name of a film that tells the true storty of girls that were sent to the  Magdalene Asylums, by their families for getting pregnant. The homes were run by nuns and the girls had the most horrific lives.

Answer 3

Have a look at this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdale...

Answer 4

it's a film

Answer 5

They were "bad girls" in ireland who needed locked up.

Mostly un-wed mothers and they were locked up with nuns to do laundry and had their babies taken away.