ASIN: B0081KAI58
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 308
Melinda was adopted during the Baby Scoop Era-A period of time in US History where it was deemed morally unacceptable for a single woman to become pregnant and try and keep her child. Thousands of young women were sent to maternity homes where they were usually forced to work while pregnant, deliver their child, and were then brainwashed to sign their babies over for adoption by parents, the clergy, or social workers representing the adoption agencies. Time frame from the late 40s through the early 70s.Adopted into an affluent and aristocratic family, Melinda A. Warshaw had everything a little girl could want—the best clothes, the best toys, horse riding lessons, anything else her heart desired. But what she didn't have was answers. Why was she so different from the people she lived with? Why were her most natural artistic impulses disdained and discouraged regularly by her adoptive ...
