The price of children
stolen lives in a land without choice
The price of children
stolen lives in a land without choice
Book - 2024
The Price of Children is the never-told story of how the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly 4000 children of unwed Italian mothers to the United States for adoption between 1950 to 1970, falsely labeling them "war orphans" then later "orphans." With the religious stigma of unwed motherhood turning families against daughters, and a Church and State wanting "illegitimate" children sent abroad, mothers were lied to, given forms to sign that they didn't understand, or even told their baby had died, all to further supply this international adoption pipeline. Maria Laurino's investigation began from a family discovery: a chance phone call from her cousin revealed that he had been one of these children, leading her to uncover an adoption scheme overseen by the highest levels of the Vatican." --
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2024.
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Prezzo degli innocenti. |l English |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The price of children : |b stolen lives in a land without choice / |c Maria Laurino. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Stolen lives in a land without choice |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Open Road Integrated Media, |c 2024. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2023 | |
| 300 | |a 313 pages ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a First published in the Italian language as Il prezzo degli innocenti by Longanesi & C. S.R.L., Milan, 2023. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-307). | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Part one: |t Baby shoes never worn -- |g Part two: |t The vision and the mission -- |g Part three: |t My child no longer -- |g Part four: |t The Steubenville cluster -- |g Part five: |t The genealogist and the priest |
| 520 | |a The Price of Children is the never-told story of how the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly 4000 children of unwed Italian mothers to the United States for adoption between 1950 to 1970, falsely labeling them "war orphans" then later "orphans." With the religious stigma of unwed motherhood turning families against daughters, and a Church and State wanting "illegitimate" children sent abroad, mothers were lied to, given forms to sign that they didn't understand, or even told their baby had died, all to further supply this international adoption pipeline. Maria Laurino's investigation began from a family discovery: a chance phone call from her cousin revealed that he had been one of these children, leading her to uncover an adoption scheme overseen by the highest levels of the Vatican." -- |c Publisher description. | ||
| 546 | |a In English, translated from Italian. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Adoption |x Corrupt practices |z Italy |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Adoption |x Corrupt practices |z United States |x History |y 20th century. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Adoptees |z Italy. | |
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