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The ground-breaking documentary which broke the silence on lesbian mothers’ custody struggles

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Four decades on from its original release, Sophie Wilkinson speaks with Melanie Chait, the director of the 1985 documentary Breaking the Silence.

WORDS SOPHIE WILKINSON Lesbian mums might be a normal part of LGBTQIA+ culture, but it’s not always been this way.

As I recently uncovered for a BBC Radio 4 documentary Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal, family court judges from the 1970s to the 1990s frequently took custody off of lesbians.

Before the advent of artificial and then donor insemination, women would marry men, as was expected of them, have kids, then realise that they were lesbians.

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