'The House of Eve' explores Black motherhood and associated stigma in the 1950s
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Pregnant Women and Adoption
The book is about unwed mothers and how pregnant girls are often shipped off to these homes where they were treated so callously. How close is this story that you created to the experiences of real people? Well when I was thinking about what did women during this time do? You know, this was pre row versus Wade, you know, and so they didn't have a lot of options. They would hide from the world and they would surrender their babies.
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