Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories

Each year hundreds of thousands of women surrender babies for adoption and become "birthmothers." In this book, we hear from more than seventy of them, women who differ from one another in age, background, and personality but have in common the dramatic experience of giving birth to a baby and relinquishing that child for adoption.These heart-wrenching stories will inform, fascinate, and deeply affect not only those who have participated in the adoption triangle of birthparent, adoptive parent, and adopted child, but also anyone interested in motherhood, the family, and what being a woman in our society can entail.