Girls Who Went Away, The

Ann Fessler

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, the author brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the several decades before Roe v. Wade. This is the true story of "sex and the single girl" in the post-World War II years--a story not of carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that had punishing long term effects on millions of American women who were told they had no choice but to give up their children.

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