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Summary: AWESOME, AWESOME BOOK
Review: This is a must read for all birthmothers, adoptees and adoptive parents. For clinicians who work within the adoption field, this book should be mandatory reading in order to understand the experience of the mother who places her child for adoption. Schaefer's book is powerful and honest and will touch the hearts of everyone.
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Summary: This book is an incredible journey
Review: This was the most important book I have ever read. I too am a birthmother, and I could have authored this book. This book helped me more than any other outlet I have used in my search to heal myself. Thank you Carol, for saying the words I could not say, and for helping me in a way that I could not help myself.
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Summary: I'm giving a copy to my mom!
Review: What a wonderful birthday present it will be for her. Like many mothers who lost their children to adoption, my mother felt all alone with her grief. Schaefer's book will help my mom to realize that she wasn't alone in wanting to keep her baby. Schaefer's book has also helped me to understand how many mothers ignored their mothering instincts. I was especially moved by the fact that her son was placed with adopters who returned him and then he was placed with other adopters. As an adoptee, I also had a return policy, but never was it specified that I could go back to my natural mother. What a shame that Schaefer and other mothers were denied the right to raise their firstborn children. I can only hope that mothers who are considering adoption will read this book and realize how difficult it is for the mother and child to be separated. Perhaps potential adopters will also read it and realize that adoption involves taking away a child from its mother.
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