TY  - BOOK
AU  - Church,Meagan
TI  - The girls we sent away: a novel 
SN  - 9781728257181
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Naperville, Illinois
PB  - Sourcebooks Landmark
KW  - Teenage pregnancy
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Pregnant teenagers
KW  - Maternity homes
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Social problem fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - "North Carolina, 1960s. Lorraine has it all-the boyfriend, the good grades, the white picket fence, the ambition to become the first woman astronaut. But when she-the darling girl-next-door-becomes pregnant, she learns that love is conditional and ambition has its limits. In an effort to hide their daughter's secret shame, her parents send her away to a maternity home-a common solution for "wayward" girls during that time period. Lorraine soon realizes that instead of being a safe haven, the home forces unwed mothers to relinquish parental rights and place their babies for adoption. Lorraine must decide if she has the agency and power to fight to keep her baby or if she must submit to the rules of the society she once admired. Set in the Baby Scoop Era, The Girls We Sent Away juxtaposes the breakthrough technologies of the Race to Space with the societal realities that kept women grounded"--
ER  -