Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

8 reviews

lizmart88's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

Forget what you think you know about adoption - this book will upend everything you think you know. It comes from what should be the most authoritative source on adoption - biological mothers - and yet, their voices are so often missing from the discussion of adoption. Sisson has done the work, interviewing so many parents and taking the time to interview them throughout the years to see how their views have changed (spoiler alert: almost every mother interviewed regrets choosing adoption in some way). This book is hard to read because its so raw. I had a lot of trouble getting through reading about the pain and heartbreak and challenges mothers faced as they navigated unplanned pregnancies and choosing adoption, and the massive unfairness afterward as well as they received little to no mental health care or support at all. I can't recommend it enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Abandonment

lisettemarie's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, and Classism

allisonmaier's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Abortion and Pregnancy

booksawyer's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

lowkeymarie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Drug use, Abortion, and Abandonment

grace_b_3's review

informative sad slow-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Religious bigotry, Abortion, and Abandonment

Moderate: Racism, Rape, and Sexism

anxiousrage's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

Outstanding and necessary read. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Abortion

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This is the second book I’ve read about the impact of adoptions that no one talks about. First one was What White Patents Should Know about Transracial Adoption by Melissa Guida-Richards last year. That was from the perspective of the adopted child (written as an adopted adult). This book was just as powerful. I’m so glad we are now talking about the full picture of what it means to give up a child for adoption, especially in light of the Dobbs decision.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic