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

80-Rocky Mwnlain
SaL, fhy 3, 1980, Denver, blo.
A mother's search.
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for long-lost twins . ., I.. _.. . . .,
By ARLENE SBOVALD
IsdryJat Nm Nlhm
SALIDA, Colo. - When a judge In Colm& Ohlo, ordered
BwemqSmltb-Lo t m over her 3-mon.th;ald lwim, Tom Howard
anU~.St.ulle& In the court on May 13,1916, it never rxcwd
In her Lo,pmtert bmw, "You didn't quatloo a judge or even
our husband La thor & I war 19 ycan old and bad been nlwd
%a convent mast of my &. I had been taught toobey."
Sbe h 61 and Mrs. Jpha.Redflcld, now, and Uva La SaUda,
Colo. And sbeN11 h o In fInd ~ hvmnr ~
(bat day In 1938 when her then-husband,
.Gll&gSml.& 22, came home aad.lold her to el the twim ready
for aa mthg. That ootlng ended La a judge's $ambers. Unlroom
to her. Smlth had Tied for dlmrce, sagtag he no lmgv wanled ibe
marlhilltv of a wUe and children - and since Rovrmn could-
She vividly m h
n't'kare for he children herself, he was givlng
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them up fir adop
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'Ibejud eorderrdh&Lo~(hrbnbIamvio(hecaut
"He mi! that shce 1 had been a rnrd of the courlall my life'
and had gotten pregnant kIore my mamiage, hc was sun I could-
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n't Lake orom care of the chlldreo!' Rmem;lrP Wield recalled.
"I 6zo't even permitted Lo &kc a phoie dl.1 know thls
sounbc unLeUevahle today, but Uma wen dUferenl Lheal had no
control over the slhwUoti.l was jwt a woman and, as such, I had
no ri~hk - or at lev1 now 1 was aware of!'
Rosemary herself had been given up for adoptlon by her
unwed mother. Wh~0 she was 8, her imter mother dled. When her
fcster father remarried he ul her loba convent busehis new
wife didn't want a child, m 8 Rasemary then beoune a ward of the
court.
She war mised by nuns unU she was 18, when her father dem~nded
Lbal sbe return home, gel r job and pay mom and M.
"I did what I was Lold," hcmay RcdIield said. "Lhe way
good girls wen supposed Lo in thme dap."
S3.d -d-8-1. "-1 hat- 6-
Aflcr42year$
R m q Redfield is
s t [ l l ~ ~ f~e
o r
twim a courl ordered
her to give up when
. t6ey were
months old. She is 61
and ff ver fo Wda.
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