01872cam a2200313 4500 759590550 TxAuBib 20200513120000.0 200424t20202019||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2020930639 9781432878221 lg. print : alk. paper 1432878220 lg. print : alk. paper KyBuM KyBuM TxGR TxAuBib Christie, Judy Pace, 1956- Before and after [Large Type Book] : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society / Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2020. ©2019. 427 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print nonfiction "From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans to eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. Before and After includes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families, many having joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives"--From the publisher's web site. 20200513. Tennessee Children's Home Society Corrupt practices History. Adoption agencies Corrupt practices Tennessee History. Family reunification Tennessee Case studies. Wingate, Lisa. Thorndike Press large print nonfiction. RV8