American Baby
"Powerful... Tells a singular story to illuminate a universal truth."--The New York Times Book ReviewThe shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one…
Specifikacia American Baby
"Powerful... Tells a singular story to illuminate a universal truth."--The New York Times Book ReviewThe 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 otherDuring 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, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle 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 her to hold her own son. Social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption
American Baby