| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - the 1950s to the 1970s.Adoption in Australia is mostly controlled by state laws, but the report found that the federal government had contributed to forced adoption by failing to provide unwed mothers with full welfare benefits to which a widow or deserted wife would have been entitled until 1973.Australian adoptions peaked at almost 10,000 a year in 1972, before rapidly declining.
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