Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen Sisson There is a lot of debate that centers around women who relinquish their children. We talk about who they might be and why they might be making the decisions they are, often without any insight into…

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🧵 In case you missed this thread of #adoption history, it has a really powerful letter by Bay Area #firstmother Sally Brown (1927-2022) that she wrote to a rabbi who had opined that there was no need for adopted people to have access to our birth information. It's 🔥 and was published back in 1986. 🥚

Too many mothers relinquished with the promise of a better life for their child only to find out years later they were lied to by those people making that promise and their child may not have had a good life after all.
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