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42% were known to be adopted, while 27% returned to their families of birth. Records are unclear on the outcome of many of the children born in the home
Survivors describe regular physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, particularly while being boarded out. While there is no documentary evidence of racism in the records, some sources suggest that staff may have had a negative bias to mixed-race babies though reports are conflicting. They were commonly transferred from other homes to St Patrick's. Only about half of mixed-race children were recorded as adopted, and non-adopted children sometimes moved to
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Patrick's were up to 50% (in 1920) when the national rate was 6.6% (in 1922). The majority were buried in Glasnevin cemetery. Outbreaks of infectious disease spread rapidly in overcrowded and cramped conditions. Records show about 18,000 children passed through the home; of these about
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Bessborough Home in Cork, which led to its temporary closure owing to poor conditions, had a significant impact on other such homes, including St Patrick's. Another important influence was the increased demand for adoptive babies among couples in the United States which meant that healthy
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