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Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
Margaret E. Ward
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Description for Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
Paperback. Deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLC; BM; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 596.
In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoption. Within a few weeks, Margaret Ward and Thomas de Witt were the parents of a toddler they named Nelson—an adorable boy whose prior life seemed as mysterious as the fact that government officials in two countries had inexplicably expedited his adoption.
In Missing Mila, Finding Family, Margaret Ward ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292729087
SKU
V9780292729087
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About Margaret E. Ward
Professor of German Emerita, Margaret E. Ward taught at Wellesley College from 1971 to 2010. A prize in her name is awarded each year to an outstanding senior major in Women and Gender Studies in recognition of Ward's contribution to the establishment of that department. She has published on Bertolt Brecht, post-1945 political drama, and women's biography, including a book ... Read more
Reviews for Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
"The greatest contribution of this book, aside from the fact that the Ward and Escobar/Coto families' stories are compelling in their own right, is the telling of an ultimately courageous narrative about what is possible in the aftermath of atrocious human rights violations in Central America. Not just gangs of torturers, mafias of demobilized militaries, the victories of neoliberalism, and ... Read more