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Relinquished
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Winner, The 2026 Adele Clark Book Awardfinalist, Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2024Finalist, 2024 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize For Social JusticeEssential Reading. Npr Books We LoveDares To Imagine A Different World Where Americans Treat Adoption Like The Justice Issue It Is. Washington PostImpressively 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 Chroniclea Powerful DecadeLong Study Of Adoption In The Age Of Roe, Revealing The Grief Of The American Mothers For Whom The Choice To Parent Was Never Realadoption 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 Our CountryS Refusal To Care For Families At The Most Basic Level, And To Instead Embrace An Individual, Private Solution To A LargeScale, Social Problem.With The Recent Decision In Dobbs V. Jackson WomenS Health Organization Revoking Abortion Protections, We Are In A Political Moment In Which Adoption Is, Increasingly, Being Revealed As An Institution Devoted To Separating Families And Policing Parenthood Under The Guise Of FeelGood FamilyBuilding. Rooted In A LongTerm Study, Relinquished Features The InDepth Testimonies Of American Mothers Who Placed Their Children For Domestic Adoption. The Voices Of These Women Are Powerful And Heartrending; They Deserve To Be Heard.
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