The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
The surprise? Every single woman was filled with regret and anger due to giving up her child. Many, if not most, felt this ruined their lives. A shocking book for me. I’d anticipated that most women simply went on with their lives, happy to have avoided all the problems raising a child without a marriage would have entailed. Wrong.