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Relinquished

The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

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Relinquished

Auteur(s): Gretchen Sisson
Narrateur(s): Angel Pean, Emily Norman, Katie Koster, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Si Chen, Renata Friedman
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National Book Critics Circle Award nominee, 2024

"Essential reading."—NPR “Books We Love”

“Dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is.”―Washington Post

“Impressively reported…[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans’ reduced access to abortion.”―San Francisco Chronicle

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real

Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem.

With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization revoking abortion protections, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, Relinquished features the in-depth testimonies of American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption. The voices of these women are powerful and heartrending; they deserve to be heard.

©2024 Gretchen Sisson (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
Questions de genre Relations Éducation des enfants Adoption

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FINALIST, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

“A timely book in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.”—One of the best nonfiction books of 2024, Paste Magazine

"A devastating and urgent condemnation of America’s adoption industry."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Provocative, in-depth, and scholarly. For readers interested in the history of adoption."—Library Journal

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