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000303687 1001_ $$aFessler, Ann.
000303687 24514 $$aThe girls who went away :$$bthe hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade /$$cAnn Fessler.
000303687 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPenguin Press,$$c2006.
000303687 300__ $$a354 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000303687 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-342) and index.
000303687 520__ $$aThis book brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children. It tells not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that has had punishing long-term effects on these women and on the children they gave up. Single pregnant women were shunned by family and friends, evicted from schools, sent away to maternity homes to have their children alone, and often treated with cold contempt by doctors, nurses, and clergy. The majority of the women interviewed by Fessler, herself an adoptee, have never spoken of their experiences, and most have been haunted by grief and shame their entire adult lives.--From publisher description.
000303687 650_0 $$aBirthmothers$$zUnited States.
000303687 650_0 $$aAdoption$$zUnited States$$xPsychological aspects.
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