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Author : Maud Morlock
Release : 1946
Genre : Child welfare
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Book Synopsis Maternity Homes for Unmarried Mothers by : Maud Morlock
Download or read book Maternity Homes for Unmarried Mothers written by Maud Morlock. This book was released on 1946. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Petrie
Release : 2013-04-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Gone to an Aunt's by : Anne Petrie
Download or read book Gone to an Aunt's written by Anne Petrie. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty or forty years ago, everybody knew what that phrase meant: a girl or a young, unmarried woman had gotten herself pregnant. She was “in trouble.” She had brought indescribable shame on herself and her family. In those days it was unthinkable that she would have her child and keep it. Instead she had to hide. Most likely she would be sent away to a home for unwed mothers, where she would stay in secrecy until her baby was born and given up for adoption. “Gone to an aunt’s” was the usual cover story, a fiction that everyone understood but no on talked about –until now. In Gone to an Aunt’s, journalist and long-time television host Anne Petrie takes us back into these homes for unwed mothers. Most cities in Canada had at least one home, several as many as five or six, most of them run by religious organizations. Here, in institutional settings, the girls were kept out of sight until their time was up and they could return to the world as if nothing had happened. Seven women –including the author – recount their experiences in Gone to an Aunt’s, talking openly, some for the first time, about how they got pregnant; the reaction of their parents, friends, boyfriends, and lovers; why they wound up in a home; and how they managed to cope with its rules and regulations –no last names, no talking about the past –and the promise of salvation that could come only through work and prayer. Gone to an Aunt’s is a profoundly moving and compassionate –even alarming – account. It comes as a reminder that we not get too wistful for the supposedly innocent times before the sexual revolution. That innocence, Petrie shows vividly, was a charade made believable only because the thousands of girls who had broken the rules were hidden away.
Author : Jill Nicholson
Release : 2021-11-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 198/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mother and Baby Homes by : Jill Nicholson
Download or read book Mother and Baby Homes written by Jill Nicholson. This book was released on 2021-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1960s there had been much discussion about the plight of the unmarried mother and her child; but very little of it had been based on fact. At the time Mother and Baby Homes catered for between 11,000 and 12,000 unmarried mothers each year, out of a total of 70,000; but there was hardly one generalisation that would be applicable to all the Homes. Some were run by voluntary organisations, some by local authorities and some by religious groups. While some still retained the punitive attitude, others set themselves with much kindness to help the women – some of them mere schoolgirls, to face the difficulties of their position and to plan constructively for their own future and that of their babies. Originally published in 1968, this book gives the facts but, even more, it gives the feelings and ideas of those most concerned – the mothers-to-be and those who care for them. This is a careful and sensitive study. It was unique in putting on record for the first time the views of unmarried mothers themselves about the care they received. Everybody who is interested in the history of the health and welfare of the unmarried mother in residential care should read this book.
Author : Maud Morlock
Release : 1946
Genre : Maternal and infant welfare
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Book Synopsis Maternity Homes for Unmarried Mothers by : Maud Morlock
Download or read book Maternity Homes for Unmarried Mothers written by Maud Morlock. This book was released on 1946. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Fessler
Release : 2007-06-26
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Girls Who Went Away by : Ann Fessler
Download or read book The Girls Who Went Away written by Ann Fessler. This book was released on 2007-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Wade. “It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post “A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
