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X-WR-CALDESC:March 20 is the 8th anniversary of Ohio’s “Opening Day” in 201
 5 – the day the state fully implemented S.B. 23 making previously closed o
 riginal birth records accessible upon request to 400\,000 adult adoptees. 
 For Adoption Network Cleveland this was the culmination of decades of work
  advocating for adoptee rights\, and we celebrated with Ohio-born adoptees
  from across the country. On this anniversary we examine an important piec
 e of the historical context of secrecy in adoption.  \n\nThe Baby Thief an
 d You\nHow has a woman who died in 1950 affected you? Barbara Raymond\, wh
 o spent over a decade researching and writing her nonfiction book\, The Ba
 by Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann\, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted
  Adoption\, will attempt to answer that question.\n\nTann operated out of 
 Memphis\, Tennessee\, from 1924 to 1950\, stealing over 5\,000 children fr
 om poor\, often single parents and selling them to wealthy people.  In the
  process\, she invented modern American adoption\, popularizing it\, comme
 rcializing it\, and corrupting it with secrecy.  Barbara\, an adoptive mot
 her herself\, was the first person to discover that Tann began the practic
 e of falsifying adoptees’ birth certificates\, sealing their true ones and
  issuing false ones that portrayed their adoptive parents as their birth p
 arents. Eventually every state began issuing false birth certificates.\n\n
 Barbara will discuss Tann’s actions and their consequences\, which are sti
 ll felt today.  She’ll also talk about her search for her daughter’s birth
  family\, and the ongoing\, happy reunion that followed. \n\nAbout Barbara
  Raymond\nBarbara Raymond is the author of The Baby Thief\, as well as art
 icles for The New York Times\, USA Today\, Writer’s Digest\, and other pub
 lications. Publisher’s Weekly named The Baby Thief a Best Book of the Year
 .  Academy Award winning actress and producer Octavia Spencer has optioned
  The Baby Thief for film.\n\nBarbara is the mother of two and grandmother 
 of six. She is very grateful for the help of Betsie Norris and Adoption Ne
 twork Cleveland in finding her daughter’s birth family.\n\n
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DESCRIPTION:March 20 is the 8th anniversary of Ohio’s “Opening Day” in 2015
  – the day the state fully implemented S.B. 23 making previously closed or
 iginal birth records accessible upon request to 400\,000 adult adoptees. F
 or Adoption Network Cleveland this was the culmination of decades of work 
 advocating for adoptee rights\, and we celebrated with Ohio-born adoptees 
 from across the country. On this anniversary we examine an important piece
  of the historical context of secrecy in adoption.  \n\nThe Baby Thief and
  You\nHow has a woman who died in 1950 affected you? Barbara Raymond\, who
  spent over a decade researching and writing her nonfiction book\, The Bab
 y Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann\, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted 
 Adoption\, will attempt to answer that question.\n\nTann operated out of M
 emphis\, Tennessee\, from 1924 to 1950\, stealing over 5\,000 children fro
 m poor\, often single parents and selling them to wealthy people.  In the 
 process\, she invented modern American adoption\, popularizing it\, commer
 cializing it\, and corrupting it with secrecy.  Barbara\, an adoptive moth
 er herself\, was the first person to discover that Tann began the practice
  of falsifying adoptees’ birth certificates\, sealing their true ones and 
 issuing false ones that portrayed their adoptive parents as their birth pa
 rents. Eventually every state began issuing false birth certificates.\n\nB
 arbara will discuss Tann’s actions and their consequences\, which are stil
 l felt today.  She’ll also talk about her search for her daughter’s birth 
 family\, and the ongoing\, happy reunion that followed. \n\nAbout Barbara 
 Raymond\nBarbara Raymond is the author of The Baby Thief\, as well as arti
 cles for The New York Times\, USA Today\, Writer’s Digest\, and other publ
 ications. Publisher’s Weekly named The Baby Thief a Best Book of the Year.
   Academy Award winning actress and producer Octavia Spencer has optioned 
 The Baby Thief for film.\n\nBarbara is the mother of two and grandmother o
 f six. She is very grateful for the help of Betsie Norris and Adoption Net
 work Cleveland in finding her daughter’s birth family.\n\n
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SUMMARY:The Baby Thief and You with Barbara Raymond
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