PDF/ePub American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption By Gabrielle Glaser
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By : Gabrielle Glaser
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Book Synopsis :
THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT POSTWAR ADOPTION IN AMERICA, TOLD THROUGH THE BITTERSWEET STORY OF ONE TEENAGER, THE SON SHE WAS FORCED TO RELINQUISH, AND THEIR SEARCH TO FIND EACH OTHER.During the Baby Boom, in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, 16-year-old Margaret Erie fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, and after she gave birth, she wasn't even allowed to hold her son. Social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. her son vanished, his whereabouts and new new identity know only to an adoption agency that would not share the slightest detail about his fate.Claiming to be acting in the best interests of all, the adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. 'AMERICAN BABY' lays out how a lucrative and exploitive industry
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Author : Gabrielle Glaser
Pages : pages
Publisher : Penguin Audio
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B0851SP81Q
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