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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]
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade is a 2006 book by Ann Fessler which describes and recounts the experiences of women in the United States who relinquished babies for adoption between 1950 and the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New book teaches families about adoption, based on real-life story of senior dog. Adam England. June 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM. Credit: Getty Images. ... The situation made her feel sad, ...
Foxfire Books series, from the magazine of the same name, popular with the 1970s back-to-the-land movement; Steal this book, by yippie Abbie Hoffman, 1971, a guide to living with little or no money, and to living outside the rules of establishment culture; Our Bodies, Ourselves, by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1973
Those photographs fill the book that will commemorate 150 Kentucky Derbys — hundreds of little moments combined with stories from reporters Kirby Adams, Jason Frakes and Maggie Menderski to tell ...