Call the midwife and 60s adoption

[Newname101]

Watching the Christmas call the midwife and they mentioned choosing day for orphans. My mum was adopted in the 60s - was this what happened? How much vetting did my grandparents have been they took my mum? I think she came from a Catholic agency but that's all I know and I'm interested

I think the vetting was very limited compared to today - based on a reference from the local priest, and few visits from a social worker. Most adoptions were of very young babies, I don't know much about what happened with older children.

I guess my mum was a baby but i have very limited information. It means I have no maternal family history which is fun at doctors appointments

Two of my friends (adopted sisters) were adopted in the early.70,a both of their birth mums were quite young and didn't have support from the birth fathers they were adopted as very young babies ,about six weeks old I think, I suspect young single mums were far more encouraged to give up.their babies for adoption

I was a late 1960s adoptee, Catholic agency. From what I was told, vetting was more limited than now. Basically, there were more babies needing homes back then I think.
Prospective adopters had social worker (employed by the agency) and before and after placement we were subject to random unannounced visits from the nuns.
I was placed at 6 weeks and was already named/baptised. Adopters chose gender but didn't see baby before at all. We were sort of colour matched - I was placed to my parents as my birth parents had the same hair/eye colour.
This was a time when children were still not being told they were adopted (I was) so making sure we looked like parents/siblings covered this.
Strange times
According to my parents, local authority adoptions were along the lines of going to the mother and baby homes and picking a baby. That just feels all sorts of wrong...

This bit of Call the Midwife seems realistic- two of my lifelong friends were adopted and both as adults have made contact with their birth parents (one has a very good relationship with his birth father).

Some of the dialogue is not, and I think that the series has probably should now come to an end.

I was adopted in 1972 so a bit later but I know that my adoptive parents had been rejected by social services as unsuitable but they went to the Methodist society and adopted me through them. They paid £500 which I suppose was a lot then. There couldn't have been thorough checks as they had already be rejected by the state.
(This was in England)