Never heard of Tann until a few years ago...when I saw a glimpse of her in a documentary on a parallel subject. I'm reading this book on her now. This woman was just pure EVIL.....and the elite people and others that she surrounded herself with and supported her was just as EVIL! The only happy ending in this book......some of these sweet children were able to be reconnected.
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My wife was put up for adoption throught Georgia Tann's Children's Home. She has told me some of her experiences from being in the home in the 1940's but I just didn't believe all that I heard from her and others until I read the book. I could not read but just a few pages at a time due to the impact this book made on me. I bought my wife another book for her to read while I read this one. We both would go to bed very disturbed...
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As an adoptee and 30-year resident of Memphis, I thought I knew all there was to know about adoption and about Georgia Tann. I was wrong. This book is nothing less than a shadow history of adoption in the US, and those (like me) who think it has nothing new to tell them are especially encouraged to read it. Ms. Tann made adoption acceptable in an age of eugenics. She also sexually abused children, invented sealed records,...
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and you thought that people who did these kinds of things in the 20th Century were prosecuted by the law. Wrong! From 1924 through 1950 babies and children were kidnapped, taken by coercion and lies, and sold on to farms and in to homes across America. They weren't the children of slaves - though they were treated like they were, nor were they low life trash - though they were treated like they were... they were born to...
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The Baby Thief : the Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisanz Raymond will hit the stands soon. And oh what a book it is! I've known about this book and its various incarnations for a long time. In 2001 Barbara sent me an early draft. Unfortunately, I didn't follow up on it like I should have. I am happy to say, though, that Barbara did, and the result is a fascinating but sickening...
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