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Shameless - The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son (Unabridged) by Marilyn Churley

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Shameless - The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son (Unabridged)

Author
Marilyn Churley
Narrator
Ellen Davis
Publisher
Between the Lines
Publish Date
15 October 2022
Run Time
6 hours 51 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Central / national / federal government policies, Society and culture: general, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership
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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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Author
Marilyn Churley
Narrator
Ellen Davis
Duration
6 hours 51 minutes
Release Date
15 October 2022
ISBN
9781771136150
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Between the Lines
Genre
Central / national / federal government policies, Society and culture: general, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership

Synopsis

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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