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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was looking up the Crittendon Homes just now.  There  apparently is a book called The Girls Who Went Away. 
Growing up in Florida in tgexeatly 60s one always heard of junior high and high school girls who went away. 
I knew a couple through their siblings. They seemed relieved to be home after "visiting a sick aunt."   [/quote]

OP here.  I think what was most traumatic for my mom beyond the loss of her baby was the secrecy and shame.  The girls weren’t even able to tell each other their real names.  And after she got home, it was never, ever spoken about.

Even now, with currently relinquishing mothers at least now having access to therapy or places like here where people can post anonymously and get support, most therapists are ignorant about adoption loss and will repeat the kind of gaslighting messaging that’s been promoted by the adoption industry…like, at least you gave your child a better chance at life, yours was the bravest love, blah blah blah.  What comfort would it be to find out if your child had been kidnapped that he was now living with very rich people, didn’t remember you, and was happy?  On paper, it should be comforting, but any mom knows that that truly would not be a comfort at all.  (I mean compared to torture and death, yes, but there is no respite from the pain of loss or separation.)

Research shows that nearly 50% of relinquishing mothers who also experienced the death of a child found that the pain of the adoption loss was ultimately more traumatic than death, which can to some degree have softened edges over time.   But to know your child is in the world and have your motherhood permanently severed from him…for most, it doesn’t get better.[/quote]

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