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2. Baby Scoop Era - Wikipedia

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   "In 1970, approximately 80% of the infants born to single mothers were [...] [taken for adoption purposes], whereas by 1983 that figure had dropped to only 4%." [16] In contrast to numbers in the 1960s and 1970s, from 1989 to 1995 fewer than 1% of children born to never-married women were surrendered for adoption. [17]

3. List of Kentucky women in the civil rights era - Wikipedia

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   A History of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky, 1894-1994. Lexington, Kentucky: Woman's Club of Central Kentucky. Crowe-Carraco, Carol (1989). Women Who Made a Difference. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813109019. Fuller, Paul E. (1975). Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement. Lexington, Kentucky: University ...

4. Pack Horse Library Project - Wikipedia

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   Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people. Pack horse librarians were known by many different names including "book women," "book ladies," and "packsaddle librarians." [1]: 290 The project helped employ around 200 people and reached around 100,000 residents in rural Kentucky. [2]

5. Hannah Gavron: The pioneering 1960s feminist you’ve never ...

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   IN FOCUS: When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks ...

6. Kentucky Women Remembered - Wikipedia

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   The commission determined that Kentucky women's status would be improved through a permanent agency and Governor Louie Nunn signed an executive order establishing the Kentucky Commission on Women in November 1968. Legislative action made the Commission official in 1970. In 1978, the Kentucky Commission on Women started a campaign to recognize ...

7. New book teaches families about adoption, based on real-life ...

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   The book aims to teach people that adoption is a wonderful way to build a forever family. New book teaches families about adoption, based on real-life story of senior dog Skip to main content

8. Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

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   The adoption process for J.R., his integration into the family, and his struggle to develop sufficient physical strength to climb the staircase inside the family home are used as a unifying device for telling the story of how the DeBolts became involved in the adoption of "special needs" children and showing how the family approaches the ...

9. How a book about abortion in 1960s France became the ... - AOL

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   A new film adaptation of a 2000 memoir, "Happening," about a French woman's illegal 1963 abortion, trades the book's specifity for universal power. How a book about abortion in 1960s France became ...