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Essential reading. NPR Books We Love

Dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is. ?Washington Post

Impressively reported[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans' reduced access to abortion. ?San Francisco Chronicle

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real

Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about o

Relinquished

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    A Hardback by Gretchen Sisson

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      Publisher St. Martin's Publishing Group
      Published 2/27/2024
      ISBN-13 9781250286772
      978-1250286772
      ISBN-10 1250286778
      Also in:
      Feminism and feminist theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Essential reading. NPR Books We Love

      Dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is. ?Washington Post

      Impressively reported[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans' reduced access to abortion. ?San Francisco Chronicle

      A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real

      Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about o

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