How much time is enough time to decide? Many seek update of state adoption laws
When Priscilla Sharp gave birth to her daughter, she was startled when the baby was put in her arms.
Moments after the nurse handed her the child by accident, a nun came by to carry the baby girl away.
Sharp, now a 71-year-old blogger living in State College, Pa., had chosen to put her baby up for adoption in 1964 and was not permitted to see the child. Sharp said she’s held on to the pain of that moment for 50 years.
“I had no choice. I had no home, I had no job, I had no money,” Ms. Sharp said. “They gave me drugs to dry up milk. They told me if I wanted to take her from the hospital I had to pay for the entire bill.”
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