The Price of Children by Maria Laurino

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/46597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Price of Children Author: Maria Laurino Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins Release date: 10-15-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 13 ratings Genres: Social Sciences Publisher's Summary: Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly four thousand Italian children to the United States for adoption into “good” Catholic homes. With the religious stigma of unwed motherhood turning families against daughters and a Church and State wanting “illegitimate” children sent abroad, mothers were lied to, given forms to sign that they didn’t understand, or even told their baby had died, all to further supply this international adoption pipeline.