American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Secret History of Adoption
A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subje...show more
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“Every family, every adoptee, every birth mother has their story.” Gabrielle Glaser’s American Baby is David and Margaret’s. “Their tale–whose basic contours they share with millions of Americans–is one of loss, love, and parallel searches for identity: one a mother who lost a firstborn; the other a son grafted onto a family of loving strangers, wondering where he had come from.”
“The story of Margaret Erle Katz and David Rosenberg does not have...read more
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