Baby Scoop Era Fathers. The idea that birth mothers need protection from the adult son or daughter they relinquished for adoptionliving proof of their supposed harlot-like pastis one born during the Baby Scoop Era a period of US. The term Baby Scoop Era is similar to the term Sixties Scoop which was coined by Patrick Johnston author of Native Children and the Child Welfare System.
During the era of closed adoption 1950s 1970s this was the experience for hundreds of thousands of young women who were unmarried and pregnant. Roy is among an estimated 25 million women in the United States who were victims of the Baby Scoop Era which occurred from 1945 to 1975. The Baby Scoop Era occurred prior to the US.
Roy is among an estimated 25 million women in the United States who were victims of the Baby Scoop Era which occurred from 1945 to 1975.
From approximately 1940 to 1970 it is estimated that up to 4 million mothers in the USA surrendered newborn babies to adoption -- 2 million during the 1960s alone. It seems like everyone you meet is from 1964 or 67 or 68. And there is much more. An expose of unethical and coercive adoption industry practices during a short period in American history known as the Baby Scoop Era Post WWII - 1972.