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Adoptive Parents: Add 'American Baby' to Your Reading List | David Grislis: Adoption & Foster Care
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Adoptive Parents: Add ‘American Baby’ to Your Reading List by David Grislis | Aug 10, 2021 | Adoption & Foster Care, David Grislis
Adoptive parents and children may wonder about the real history of adoption. Closed adoptions were the norm until about the mid-1970s. Before then, teenage and unmarried pregnant women were usually scandalized, sent to homes for unwed pregnant girls and women or to other relatives. They were expected to give the baby up for adoption once it was born. Though premarital sex was actually quite common, even discussing childbirth was considered taboo and scandalous. Simultaneously, effective birth control wasn’t around yet, abortion was dangerous and illegal. What is less well-known, however, is that those adoptions were often very cruelly forced. Author Gabrielle Glaser documented one such unfortunate case in a biography titled davidgrislis.org/adoptive-parents-add-american-baby-to-your-reading-list/
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