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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]
Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon, novel of the changes from 1960s to 1980s counterculture in Northern California; Summer of Love, by Lisa Mason, novel about the period; Baby Driver, a semi-autobiographical novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack Kerouac; My Hippie Grandmother, a children's picture book by Reeve Lindbergh and Abby Carter, 2003
Reader's Digest Condensed Books was a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail. Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which ...
It’s estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 communes existed in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Fast-forward 50 years, and it seems that little has changed.
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.
The book aims to teach people that adoption is a wonderful way to build a forever family. ... California in 2016 when King met him on vacation. He lived in the hotel lobby as part of a pet ...
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War. Knopf. Rosales, Oliver A. (2024). Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley. University of Texas Press. Ruiz, V. L. (1987). Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 ...
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 ...