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The Baby Thief - The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s. (Paperback)
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The Baby Thief - The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s. (Paperback)
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Drawing on extensive interviews and correspondence with many of
Tann's surviving victims, Barbara Raymond shows how Tann not only
popularised adoption - which until then had been feared and
discouraged - but also commercialised and corrupted it. She tells
how Tann abducted babies or coerced women to leave their children
in her care and then sold them. To cover her kidnapping crimes she
falsified birth certificates, a practice that was approved by
legislators who believed it would spare adoptees the taint of
illegitimacy - an one that still holds today in the form of
'amended' birth certificates and closed adoption records.
Uncovering many life-shattering stories along the way, Raymond
recounts how Tann openly sold more that 5,000 children, and killed
so many through neglect that Memphis's infant mortality rate soared
to the highest in the country. She explores how Tann's operation
was able to thrive in a Tennessee governed by 'Boss' Ed Crump and
the political network that allowed her to operate with impunity.
And she portrays the lack of options available to women, affecting
not only the birth mothers she robbed, but also Tann herself, who
turned to social work after having been barred for a 'masculine
profession' - the law. Written by an adoptive mother, The Baby
Thief is part social history, part detective story, and part
expose. It is a riveting investigative narrative that explores
themes that continue to reverberate in the modern era, when baby
sellers operate overseas. It is particularly relevant at this time
in the UK, amidst heated national debate over the controversial
adoption targets that seem to provide a perverse incentive to
remove babies from birth parents.
General
Imprint: |
John Blake Publishing Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2013 |
Authors: |
Barbara Bisantz Raymond
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78219-457-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
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LSN: |
1-78219-457-6 |
Barcode: |
9781782194576 |
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