The Price of Children - Laurino, Maria
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"Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly four thousand Italian children to the United States for adoption into 'good' Catholic homes. With the religious stigma of unwed motherhood turning families against daughters and a Church and State wanting 'illegitimate' children sent abroad, mothers were lied to, given forms to sign that they didn't understand, or even told their baby had died, all to further supply this international adoption pipeline. Maria Laurino uncovers archival correspondence among priests who ran this program; provides testimonies from…mehr

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"Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly four thousand Italian children to the United States for adoption into 'good' Catholic homes. With the religious stigma of unwed motherhood turning families against daughters and a Church and State wanting 'illegitimate' children sent abroad, mothers were lied to, given forms to sign that they didn't understand, or even told their baby had died, all to further supply this international adoption pipeline. Maria Laurino uncovers archival correspondence among priests who ran this program; provides testimonies from birth mothers and their adopted children; and with passion and insight, considers how the intersection of Catholicism, women, sex, and sin shaped private lives. The Price of Children is a moving and brilliant account about the tenacity of people searching for their origins and trying to answer long-buried questions. It is a chilling lesson for post-Dobbs America as the author describes the danger of a powerful church and acquiescent government dictating the shape of a woman's life."--
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Maria Laurino is the author of the national bestselling memoir Were You Always an Italian?, an exploration of how stereotypes and class prejudice influenced Italian American identity; the memoir Old World Daughter, New World Mother, a meditation on contemporary feminism; and The Italian Americans, a companion book to the PBS documentary. A former staff writer for the Village Voice, Laurino's work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Republic, and Salon ; her essays have been widely anthologized including in the Norton Reader. marialaurino.com