I had a little blanket and thought, "We'll pass this on to our son's new parents." And I remember the woman saying, "They won't be needing the blanket."

A birth mom/writer that I know is featured in the latest issue of "People" magazine. She is an author who wrote this book about her adoption reunion story. She and two other reunited birth moms and the children that they were reunited with are featured in an article. The article that I am referring to is in the September 18, 2006 magazine. It came out last Friday, September 9, 2006.

The quote above is from one of the women who wanted to give a baby blanket to her son's adoptive parents. I can only imagine how she felt when she was told that her son would not be needing the blanket that she wanted to give to his adoptive parents for him. This kind of attitude that the birth mother of a child had "nothing" that the baby needed was all too common.

Sometimes I think about the fact that some people are really tired of seeing articles about the baby scoop era. The baby scoop era took place in the 50's, 60's and 70's, and was a time in our history when women relinquished babies to adoption in staggering numbers. The majority of these women were unmarried. However, given that 1.5 million women placed babies during this period of time, I would venture to say that our stories will probably keep on surfacing for decades. I hope that every article like the current "People" magazine article encourages more women to "come out of the closet" and begin healing.

I also am uplifted to read an article like this one because I know that is good for our children to help them understand the social climate of those times. I first discovered how popular adoption was during that period of time from my son in early reunion. He had asked if I knew how many women placed babies for adoption around the time of his adoption.

He knew about the baby scoop era because once he knew that I had been found, he began to reading a book mostly about birth mothers. The book he was reading was called Birthbond (Reunions Between Birthparents and Adoptees -What Happens After) by Judith S. Gedimen. Meanwhile, I had just bought the book called Birthright by Jean Strauss. We are both avid readers it seems.