- Paperback: 155 pages
- Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc. (Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0878391290
- ISBN-13: 978-0878391295
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 817,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Important for anyone interested in or involved in adoption.
Shadow Mothers tells the real stories of ten women from across the country who placed babies for adoption in an era of secrecy and shame, and were eventually reunited. The purpose of the book is to deliver important insights, promote understanding of adoption and reunion and help the healing process where needed. Readers have found it poignant and compelling. Adoptive parents, people wanting to adopt, adopted adults, family and friends, as well as birth parents all strongly recommend Shadow Mothers. My personal story is included in the book. I met my birth son 12 years ago. We've built a strong relationship, without a blueprint or guide as to how these fragile connections between "relative strangers" are supposed to work. I'm offering the practical advice flyer, "Top Ten Ways to Help Ensure a Happy Reunion and Relationship" free by request with each book purchase.
Shadow Mothers tells the real stories of ten women from across the country who placed babies for adoption in an era of secrecy and shame, and were eventually reunited. The purpose of the book is to deliver important insights, promote understanding of adoption and reunion and help the healing process where needed. Readers have found it poignant and compelling. Adoptive parents, people wanting to adopt, adopted adults, family and friends, as well as birth parents all strongly recommend Shadow Mothers. My personal story is included in the book. I met my birth son 12 years ago. We've built a strong relationship, without a blueprint or guide as to how these fragile connections between "relative strangers" are supposed to work. I'm offering the practical advice flyer, "Top Ten Ways to Help Ensure a Happy Reunion and Relationship" free by request with each book purchase.
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Our family was Southern through and through- from the depth of our religious convictions to the height of our moral standards. Read the first page
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Our family was Southern through and through- from the depth of our religious convictions to the height of our moral standards. Read the first page
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
As a participant in this book, I have been very excited about it since its beginning. Since I first thought of searching, I have been aware of a serious gap in the literature. No one answered the question, "What if I find her/him or I am found. Then what?" This book fills that gap admirably. Just as important, it makes one aware of how many people were and are involved in this issue, and how varied their stories are, yet how similar are their pain and joy. I recommend it for anyone in or out of an adoption triangle.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
In our era of open adoption and praise for single mothers who give up their babies to secure better lives for them, it is easy to forget a not-so-long-ago era when birth mothers were bridled with shame and expected to forever stifle the anguish of their losses. In Shadow Mothers: Stories of Adoption and Reunions (1998, North Star Press), Linda Back McKay tells her life story and those of nine other birth mothers who survived the pain, uncertainty, and secrecy of relinquishment to reunite with their children years after giving them up. Shadow Mothers is a poignant, masterful chronicle of tragedy, relief, joy, and acceptance and a probing look into the realities of adoption.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Reading Shadow Mothers is a potent experience. Each story is one that all mothers will be deeply touched by, whether or not they were able to keep their babies. No matter the circumstances of our children's conception and birth, our life situation at the time, or who nurtured those babies, we mothers each have a collection of treasured memories and "things we wish we could change" about bearing a child. Shadow Mothers captured and delivered to me a key to unlocking potent memories from those days. I enjoyed savoring some of mine, and anguished again over others. A powerful book in many ways . . . Thank you, Linda B. McKay!!
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