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Love Child : A Memoir of Adoption, Reunion, Loss and Love by Sue Elliott (2005, Hardcover)

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Product Description : In this enthralling memoir Sue Elliot tells her own story of growing up as an adopted child She details her emotional search for and meeting with her birth mother Marjorie the heartbreaking tale of how Marjorie came to give up Sue for adoption in 1950s England and the shock of finding that she Sue wasnt the only child given away by Marjorie Weaved throughout is the vivid emotional history of adoption in the UK Drawing on a wide range of intimate personal experiences it outlines the forces that shaped 20th century adoption practice from babyfarming the stigma of illegitimacy incest and the bastardy laws children taken by force and mass emigration schemes to modern day adoption practices buying babies from abroad sperm donor fathers and tearful reunions on Trisha