![]() In an era when sex education was meager and birth control difficult to obtain, more than 1.5 million babies were given up for adoption. ![]() Drawing on government statistics, sociology, history, medical and legal texts, as well as personal journals and the popular press, she surrounds their stories with descriptions of social mores during the three postwar decades. Narratives from 18 of them appear here, with shorter selections from many others. Oral history featuring the voices of women who gave up their babies for adoption from 1945 to 1973, put into context by the author’s exposition on the mood of the times.įessler (Photography/Rhode Island School of Design), a video-installation artist and adoptee who has created a number of autobiographical works on adoption, recorded some one hundred women. ![]()
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