{"product_id":"relinquished-by-gretchen-sisson","title":"Relinquished By Gretchen Sisson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__ratingStats\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__ratingStats\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoe\u003c\/i\u003e, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelinquished\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the recent decision in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e revoking abortion protections and the upcoming decision in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrackeen v. Haaland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e likely to revoke the Indian Child Welfare Act, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelinquished\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an analysis of hundreds of in-depth interviews with American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption. The voices of these women are powerful and heartrending; they deserve to be heard as a response to this moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47505603821788,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47505603854556,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/2_2639671a-d7e4-4dd5-8d0f-b9a4c69b2a66.png?v=1769703417","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/relinquished-by-gretchen-sisson","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}