![]() It wasn't until I was forty-eight that I began to face the truth and start searching. My parents didn't tell me until I was eleven years old, a mistake made by many, and I lived most of my adult life ignoring the fact of my true origins. ![]() The writing of this book made my adoption real to me - the shame of unwed mothers, the shame of being different, the shame of being abandoned by my own mother and born of a questionable past. with its inherent sense of rootlessness, abandonment and denial. Black Market Baby reveals my life growing up as an adoptee. They were called "black market babies." I was one of these children. They were smuggled across the U.S./Canadian Border. Babies were taken out of the arms of young mothers, often without their consent and sold to married couples. ![]() Pregnancy outside of marriage was a disgrace and young women who found themselves in such situations were whisked away and dumped into convents or hospitals. ![]()
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