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Originally Posted by RavenSong
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The laws in 1972 were a lot different than they are today...unwed fathers weren't given any choice when it came to relinquishment; their signatures were not required.
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I was born in 1969. My mother was sent out of state to live with her aunt and not allowed to speak to my father during her pregnancy. I was placed in foster care for the first four months of my life. When I was reunited with my birth family I was shocked to see in my adoption records (I was adopted through "child welfare", as it was called then) that when I was two months old my father found out where my mother was sent to give birth and had called trying to get me back, but he was told that I had already been adopted and besides that he had no right to me at all. It was wonderful to know that he loved me and tried to get me back, but it is also painful to know that he tried to do the right thing and he was turned away.