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Thousands of young women in the 1940s, '50s and '60s were forced to give up their babies for adoption -- and felt guilt and shame for doing so. Author and adoptee Ann Fessler has talked with many women who never forgot the experience, even as they hid the past from their current families.

Forced adoptions left legacy of shame and guilt

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