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The "Baby Jessica" case was a highly publicized custody battle in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the early 1990s between Jan and Roberta DeBoer, the couple who attempted to adopt the child, and her biological parents, Daniel Schmidt and Cara Clausen.
Fessler conceived of the book through her own experience looking for her biological mother. [1] As a documentary filmmaker, installation artist, and author, Fessler first produced several autobiographical installations on adoption; two featured her previous short films Cliff & Hazel [2] [3] about her adoptive family, and Along the Pale Blue River (2001/2013) about her search for a yearbook ...
The Baby Scoop Era was a period in anglosphere history starting after the end of World War II and ending in the early 1970s, [1] characterized by an increasing rate of pre-marital pregnancies over the preceding period, along with a higher rate of newborn adoption.
Books about adoption, a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation , from the biological parents to the adoptive parents.
As the baby boy was born out of wedlock, Alice was made to put the child up for adoption. Decades later, Alice would attempt to contact her son, with little success. [ 20 ] In August 1962, the sisters met President John F. Kennedy at the White House , sponsored by the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs .
Laura Stewart's book, “Building the Bridge School: A Story about Michigan’s First Public School,” intertwines fiction with historical facts.
Ten of the dogs ended up in Michigan for adoption. The dogs were suffering fallout from the Israel-Hamas war, raging on the other side of Israel since Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, killing ...
The William L. Clements Library is a rare book and manuscript repository located on the University of Michigan's central campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Specializing in Americana and particularly North American history prior to the twentieth century, the holdings of the Clements Library are grouped into four categories: Books, Manuscripts, Graphics and Maps.