Relinquished, Returned, Rejected

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Jackee Ashwin ISBN: 9781452531724
Publisher: Balboa Press AU Publication: November 16, 2015
Imprint: Balboa Press AU Language: English
Author: Jackee Ashwin
ISBN: 9781452531724
Publisher: Balboa Press AU
Publication: November 16, 2015
Imprint: Balboa Press AU
Language: English

On Monday, October 28, 1974, author Jackee Ashwin was with heavy heart and belly, no money for a bus ride and a long walk across town with suitcase in hand. She was heading for her final checkup with the doctor, forty weeks pregnant, swollen ankles, swollen fingers, and a waddle of which any duck would be proud. It was the day her son came into the world, and it would prove to be one of the saddest of her life.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, thousands of newborn children in Australia were taken from their mothers simply because the women werent married. The children were placed in other families, the women ridiculed and shamed. In Relinquished, Returned, Rejected, Ashwin tells her personal story of hiding the shame of her teenage pregnancy, the adoption, and the guilt that accompanied her throughout her life.

Spanning forty yearsfrom the foothills of Ben Lomond in Tasmania, an island state of Australia, to Cairns, Far North Queenslandthis memoir shares Ashwins heartbreaking story of losing her son to adoption as part of the stolen white generation and the joys of holding him in her arms as a thirty-eight-year-old man. The years in between found her dealing with still birth, a marriage breakdown, and mental resilience.

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On Monday, October 28, 1974, author Jackee Ashwin was with heavy heart and belly, no money for a bus ride and a long walk across town with suitcase in hand. She was heading for her final checkup with the doctor, forty weeks pregnant, swollen ankles, swollen fingers, and a waddle of which any duck would be proud. It was the day her son came into the world, and it would prove to be one of the saddest of her life.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, thousands of newborn children in Australia were taken from their mothers simply because the women werent married. The children were placed in other families, the women ridiculed and shamed. In Relinquished, Returned, Rejected, Ashwin tells her personal story of hiding the shame of her teenage pregnancy, the adoption, and the guilt that accompanied her throughout her life.

Spanning forty yearsfrom the foothills of Ben Lomond in Tasmania, an island state of Australia, to Cairns, Far North Queenslandthis memoir shares Ashwins heartbreaking story of losing her son to adoption as part of the stolen white generation and the joys of holding him in her arms as a thirty-eight-year-old man. The years in between found her dealing with still birth, a marriage breakdown, and mental resilience.

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