Jill Rayner was one of the "stolen generation" of adopted children from the 1950s to 1970s — when teenage mothers were a social taboo and centres existed to re-home their babies, often by force.
Candace had moved to Australia from California with her family when she fell pregnant at just 14. She was never allowed to see her daughter. Three months later, Candace's mother and father took her and her brothers back to California. She never returned to Australia.

Jill was adopted by a loving family along with another girl, Lyn, and it wasn't until their parents had died that Jill decided to track down her birth mother.

This story originally aired on June 26th, 2014, on Seven News Australia Sunday Night.

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