Desc: Mum's the Word: Directed by Colin Scheyen. Mum's The Word is an interactive documentary on the history and legacy of the adoption mandate in Canada as seen through the eyes of those who lived it and those who still feel it today. In the post-war period, approximately 350,000 women throughout Canada were coerced into giving their "illegitimate children" up for adoption by churches, social workers, government agencies, and sometimes their own families. The impact and stigma that this mandate created is only beginning to be understood today.