Articles Book III - Pg 300-560 (Birthparents) - triadoption

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"The rdoption agencles say 'go
tiome and you'll forget about it,'
but you don't forget," #aid Ar-
'''aette:' who recently was reunited
. with . -.- her - daunhter. Clndy. "The
aln and lossare'rlth you for
Re rest of your life. . I
-.. ~rnetle-sald the first Rice
Lake meeting; held in Aprll,
drew a doze81 people, mmwt of
them unwed mother8 who, had
ivm u a chlld yearn before. "I
f~nk ab of us must have crI$
sometime durlng -, that meeting,
' she mld. . 1
"We've been made by soclet
to keep it a secret,". she midl
"But aa society gws aIong, peale
tend to accept a lot more.
'k ow it's easler to get he1 and
adoption is a last resort. Cut I
don t feel it's anything I'm
ashamed of."
'1 But other8,'she mld, don't alwa
s feel that wa . One woman
cslfed and wwas in f erested in the
oup but the fear of her chll;
$.en discovering she had been nn
unwed hother ep arenily bns
keot her from a tendlng the
P
mktlnga.
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Others, she sald, mi ht be hidlag
the exlstence of t % eir firstborn
for fear of hurting their
htlsbands or' because someone
mlght know them. "There% a
shadow over all of w,"Arnette
sald. . .
The rmotiona accom~anyin~ ...
anado lion are varied.
~hll#ren often mow up feeling
thSy were unwankl. 1 , -
: Mothers not only have the stignin
of being unwed, but also Of
having given, up their qhlldren,
Joan Arnetto
"Palnol loslng chlld navel lonvdl"
'.Oliver!'
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, . . . .%, !. ; ' . , : June 13, 1882