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File Size: 708 KB
Print Length: 322 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press (April 29, 2009)
Publication Date: April 29, 2009
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B009W748I2
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I'd never heard about Georgia Tann, but after reading "Before We Were Yours", I wanted to know about her, and this book delivers. It's unthinkable to believe she got away with all the horrible things she did, and yet...she did get away with them. This book was impossible to put down.
Barbara Bisantz Raymond's meticulously researched book uncovers the darkness of modern adoption and its most villainous architect, Memphis social worker Georgia Tann. Bisantz Raymond leads readers through Depression- and war-era Memphis (and beyond) to demonstrate how Tann managed to steal toddlers and infants from poor, uneducated women, sometimes as they lay recovering from childbirth, and sell them to the rich and famous. She had catalogs to advertise children and helped to popularizing adoption with the aid of her celebrity "customers," among them Joan Crawford and June Allyson. Bisantz Raymond shows how Tann paid off the corrupt Memphis mayor, Boss Crump, as well as an array of judges, lawyers, and social workers to whom she also sometimes provided babies. She describes how scouts would find blond, blue-eyed toddlers to steal, and whose parents had too few resources to search for them. Most importantly, she reveals how Tann helped standardize the practice of sealing original birth certificates and issuing amended ones that listed adoptive parents as the original mother and father in order to cover her tracks, and ensuring that birth families would remain severed from their children. Bisantz Raymond, an adoptive mother herself, takes an unflinching look at the system Tann created. Her sources include adults who were stolen by Tann -- who often sexually abused her charges as they awaited adoption finalization -- and whose lives were anguished as a result. This book is a page-turner, and an important chapter of social history.
Great informative book. My mother was adopted in Memphis during this time period but could find no record of her adoption. Enjoyed reading this book. We probably will never have an answer to her parentage
Very interesting account of a horrible thing that happened in the 40s and 50s in middle America - something that has affected and actually improved America's approach to adoption. This woman was warped,abusive, deceitful, certainly a sociopath if not a psychopath, but as a side-effect of her megalomania adoption became acceptable and much more prevalent than it was before she entered the business of finding homes for children.She stole children from loving homes, stole them from the maternity wards of hospitals. She starved and abused them verbally, physically and sexually, and she had her hand on most of the politicians who could have hurt her.The book was fascinating.
...because failing to remember and learn from history dooms us to repeat it.Children have a right to know where they came from and anyone who would be so insecure as to deny a child the info needed to find birth parents shouldn’t be allowed to adopt
The book is excellent, compelling...and yes, depressing. Georgia Tann was just plain evil...as was Boss Crump, who, incredibly, is STILL revered today in Memphis, TN (What's up with you folks in Memphis?!) Both Tann & Crump were nasty people...and "revered" stars such as June Allyson/husband Dick Powell and Joan Crawford, among others, used her "services." Tann placed innocent children with rich folks, pedophiles...anything to make a buck! Her abominable practices STILL guide adoptions today...the secrecy & posturing to reunite birth children w/ their biological parents are in effect in many states even today. Of course, the poor and unwed were the primary victims of having their babies literally stolen from them. The story is compelling & I've scheduled it for our Book Discussion Group this coming season (2015-2016). Read it & thank your lucky stars if you were not either one of these poor children or one of their pathetic mothers. One can only hope both Tann & Crump are "reaping" their rewards in the afterlife.
If you are an adoptee, or child of an adoptee that was relinquished during this time period, then this book is especially pertinent. The author gives a quick overview of the changing attitudes about adoption from the Victorian era to the time of publication, and then delves into a very dark side of adoption - baby racketeering - that still impacts the majority of adoptees, their children, and relinquishing parents today.FYI: Many of your acquaintances, and friends, will be very skeptical when you talk to them about this book, as it just doesn't seem possible that such disregard for the welfare of the relinquished child could go on for so long, and, with government collusion, or willful ignorance, in 48 / 50 States. However, it is historical fact, but as usual, we are rarely taught anything but the sanitized version of history in school.
Ordered this book due to interest in adoptions and orphanages in the US in the 1950's & 60's. For those lucky enough to not have lived through that time - orphanages were ubiquitous in the United States. Knowledgeable about the orphan trains & child servitude I'd assumed I knew the worst; but I learned otherwise when reading Baby Thief about Georgia Tann's baby thefts by Barbara Bisantz Raymond. Author does a fine job of detailing the horrific & monstrous deeds of adoption queen Georgia Tann & her accomplice - Judge Kelley in Memphis TN. Tragically, both Tann & Judge Kelley were hailed & feted in their time. Tennessee senator Estes Kefauver, one of the heroes of this story, helped expose the horrible practices which were prevalent in the 2nd, 3rd, & 4th decade of the 20th Century in the US.. This is one of the saddest stories I've ever read.
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