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"A parent's right to care and companionship of his
or her children are so fundamental, as to be guaranteed protection under
the First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution."
In re: J.S. and C., 324 A 2d 90; supra 129 NJ Super, at 489.
Recommended Books
The Baby Scoop Era Research Initiative recommends
the following books:
"Adoption
Healing, A Path To Recovery For Moms" by Karen Wilson Buterbaugh
and Joe Soll. Adoption Healing ... A Path to Recovery for Mothers Who
Lost Children to Adoption is a unique book. The reader is provided with
a description of the immaculate deception imposed on pregnant women and
the ensuing tragedy of the loss of their babies to adoption and the profound
effects on their lives. This is followed by different methods of healing
the mother's wounds, including inner child work, visualizations, healing
affirmations, and anger management. Every chapter includes a Myths and
Realities of adoption section, a summary of the chapter and exercises
to do on one's own.
"Adoption
Healing, A Path To Recovery " by Joe Soll. In this book, the
reader is provided with a description of the unfolding of the adoptee's
personality from birth, detailing each developmental milestone along the
way, followed by different methods of healing the adoptee's wounds, including
inner child work, visualizations, healing affirmations, and anger management.
Every chapter includes a Myths and Realities of adoption section, a summary
of the chapter and exercises to do on one's own.
"Evil Exchange", a novel by Joe Soll and Lori Paris. Imagine
you are adopted, and find out that as an infant, you were sold on the
black market by a notorious baby seller who falsified your birth certificate.
Your world is shattered. Your life has been a lie. The truth seems unattainable
unless you can find someone to help you get back what was stolen, your
real identity. Todd Walters is a man on such a quest. With the aid of
a former private investigator, Boots Beaumont, the two men will begin
a search into the unknown.
"Unlearning
Adoption" " by Jessica DelBalzo. "Unlearning Adoption: A
Guide to Family Preservation and Protection" is the culmination of ten
years worth of research into past and present adoption practices, the
aftermath of adoption for surrendering parents and adopted people, and
the unethical laws and lies that permeate adoption today.
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In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds
of thousands of young single American women forced to give up their
newborn children in the years following World War II and before
Roe v. Wade. The Girls Who Went Away tells a story 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 for adoption. Based on Fessler's groundbreaking
interviews, it brings to brilliant life these women's voices and
the spirit of the time, allowing each to share her own experience
in gripping and intimate detail. Today, when the future of the Roe
decision and women's reproductive rights stand squarely at the front
of a divisive national debate, Fessler brings to the fore a long-overlooked
history of single women in the fifties, sixties, and early seventies.
In 2002, Fessler, an adoptee herself, traveled the country interviewing
women willing to speak publicly about why they relinquished their
children. Researching archival records and the political and social
climate of the time, she uncovered a story of three decades of women
who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced or
outright forced to give their babies up for adoption. Fessler deftly
describes the impossible position in which these women found themselves:
as a sexual revolution heated up in the postwar years, birth control
was tightly restricted, and abortion proved prohibitively expensive
or life endangering. At the same time, a postwar economic boom brought
millions of American families into the middle class, exerting its
own pressures to conform to a model of family perfection. Caught
in the middle, 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 Fessler interviewed have never spoken
of their experiences, and most have been haunted by grief and shame
their entire adult lives. A searing and important look into a long-overlooked
social history, The Girls Who Went Away is their story.
Also, Ann's earlier
works are not to be missed!!
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