The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time 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. 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.

• The Baby Scoop Era: Unwed Mothers, Infant Adoption and Forced Surrender
• The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child
• Hole In My Heart: memoir and report from the fault lines of adoption
• Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness
• Coming Home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up
• You Don't Look Adopted
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction
• Sunlight On My Shadow: After years of secrecy, a pregnant teen's regretful story is brought to light
• Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families -- and America (Non)