EPISODE · Oct 15, 2022 · 5 MIN
Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son by Marilyn Churley
from Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics · host Maeve Nikolaus
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son Author: Marilyn Churley Narrator: Ellen Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 15, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position – fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son. Both a personal and political story, Shameless is a powerful memoir about a mother’s struggle with loss, love, secrets, and lies – and an adoption system shrouded in shame.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son Author: Marilyn Churley Narrator: Ellen Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 15, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position – fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son. Both a personal and political story, Shameless is a powerful memoir about a mother’s struggle with loss, love, secrets, and lies – and an adoption system shrouded in shame.
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