TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buterbaugh,Karen Wilson
TI  - The baby scoop era: unwed mothers, infant adoption, and forced surrender 
SN  - 0692345795
AV  - HQ536 .W55 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - [United States]
PB  - Karen Wilson-Buterbaugh
KW  - Adoption agencies
KW  - Adoption
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychic trauma
N1  - Includes bibliographic references (p. 385-429)
N2  - "An expose of unethical and coercive adoption industry practices during a short period in American history known as the Baby Scoop Era (Post WWII - 1972). By sharing the actual printed words of social caseworkers, maternity home personnel, lawyers, judges, medical and mental health practitioners, the methods used to ensure that "unwed" mothers would surrender their babies to mostly infertile strangers will be revealed. These crimes against nature resulted in more than 1.5 million vulnerable new mothers being permanently separated from newborns that they might have parented had they been informed of their civil, legal, human and Constitutional rights."--amazon.com
ER  -