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Shadow Mothers:Stories of Adoption and Reunion
Good book - true stories of adoptions and reunions.
- GenresAdoption
168 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1998
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December 5, 2019
I quit half way through this. Just not for me. The choice of letting each girl/woman "tell the story in her own words" was a negative for me. All were wordy, first person accounts of girls from a bad home, alcoholism, low self-esteem, abuse etc. (felt like excuses to me and certainly not a fair representation of the variety of women who choose to place their baby in adoption.)
discovered another book called Out of the Shadows, stories of Adoption and Reunion ...evidently a newer version of Shadow Mothers. I think a few of the stories were the same as the first book...not sur why a 2nd volume was published under a different name. Both are by McKay. I only browsed this 2nd one a bit....didn't realize it was the same as the first one.
discovered another book called Out of the Shadows, stories of Adoption and Reunion ...evidently a newer version of Shadow Mothers. I think a few of the stories were the same as the first book...not sur why a 2nd volume was published under a different name. Both are by McKay. I only browsed this 2nd one a bit....didn't realize it was the same as the first one.
July 6, 2009
A seminal work. Insights like you've never had in the mind of birthmothers.
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