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The girls who went away may 11, 2006 will never leave me, i fear. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. However, i suggest that you contact heather lowe, a writer who whose open adoption of her child was closed by the adoptive parents. In this deeply moving and mythshattering work, ann fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before roe v.
The hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before roe v. In the years from 1945 to 1973, closed adoption was virtually a given for most unwed young women. Read the girls who went away the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before roe v. I spent the last few days devouring ann fesslers the girls who went away.
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