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A Case For Opening Adoption

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In earlier days in America, the only acceptable way to handle the unplanned pregnancy of a single woman was to have the baby and give it up in a closed adoption. 

Those days were not so long ago. 

They are still fresh in the memory of Patricia Florin and five other women who brought people into the world, with little chance of ever knowing them. 

Florin collects the stories in her book A Life Let Go: A Memoir and five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption.  Patricia Florin comes to the studio to talk about the discoveries she and the other women have made.  

Links provided by our guest:

http://cubirthparents.org/

http://americanadoptioncongress.org/

http://www.isrr.org/

https://www.childwelfare.gov/

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.