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American Baby : a Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser; OverDrive, Inc is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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A New York Times Notable Book 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. “[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future... ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these single women are gonna raise more children.” No, their hope is that those children will be placed for adoption. But is that the reality? I doubt it.’”[says Glaser]” - Mother Jones 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, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, where 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 agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. The adoption business was founded

Author

Gabrielle Glaser; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735224698

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.6 / 5 (664 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14