Complex sentence: From about the 1940s, the State, fosterage agencies, and mother and baby homes, colluded in a system of non-legal foreign adoption of predominantly illegitimate children whereby around 2,000 Irish children were adopted by childless couples in America and elsewhere.
Split into simpler sentences: From about the 1940s, the State, fosterage agencies, and mother and baby homes, colluded in a system of non-legal foreign adoption of predominantly illegitimate children. Under this scheme, around 2,000 Irish children were adopted by childless couples in America and elsewhere.