"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...

"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old...

Practical, easy-to-follow guidelines for anyone interested in adopting a child; More than 1,200 Internet sites at your fingertips that will increase your chances of finding the child for you; Simple techniques thousands of parents have used to successfully adopt with the help of the Internet; Includes writing and posting a Dear Birth Parent letter that works; Details warning signs of scams and how to pinpoint individuals who can hinder your adoption;...