The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption. Barbara Bisantz Raymond

The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption



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The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption Barbara Bisantz Raymond ebook
Publisher: Union Square Press
Page: 320
ISBN: 9781402758638


This is the harrowing story of Georgia Tann, who from 1924 to 1950 stole or otherwise separated more than 5,000 children from their families. Whether abducting children outright or tricking new mothers still groggy from anesthesia into relinquishing their babies, Tann covered her tracks by replacing the names of birth parents on "amended" birth certificates. Her ploy was legitimized by officials who legalized closed adoption, claiming this would spare adoptees the taint of illegitimacy. Scores of children in the custody of Tann's Tennessee Children's Home Society died, making Memphis's infant mortality rate the highest in the country. Yet Tann was publicly lauded for her work. She also amassed a personal fortune selling children to the wealthy (including actors June Allyson, Dick Powell, and Joan Crawford). Virtually no robbed parents got their children back. During the fifteen-year quest that led to this powerful book, the author-an adoptive mother herself-located many adult survivors of these adoptions. Their chilling stories evoke the woman who popularized and commercialized adoption in America, marketing children as commodities while she charged childless couples high fees. Part social history, part detective story, and part expose, this riveting account of a troubling chapter in modern American history reverberates today, when most states still mandate closed adoptions.

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