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Not only did the Mothers and Grandmothers, somewhat inadvertently, participate in what some would call a feminist movement, the Mothers and Grandmothers also received support received from groups across the world fighting for social justice.

This helped transform the actions of the Mothers and Grandmothers working to search for their lost family into a broader fight against human rights violations.

In Rita Arditti's " Searching For Life " she quotes a woman, Nélida de Navajas: " One of the most beautiful things that came out of my work with the Grandmothers was learning that there was so much interest and solidarity from people in other parts of the world.

It was an extraordinarily positive experience.

We have had support from the women's movement, from the CHA Homosexual Argentino, even the transsexual groups " ( Arditti 93 ).

The implications of the actions of the Mothers extend beyond the need for the Mothers to find their lost children.

It has since been revealed that many of the children who were kidnapped that survived were given to and raised by military families within the government.

The Mothers and Grandmothers were acting in response to their need to find their children.

However, when the truth about the family history of these adopted children becomes public, many of these children were devastated that their past was not what they thought it was.