Before And After

Description for BEFORE AND AFTER: THE INCREDIBLE REAL-LIFE STORIES OF ORPHANS WHO SURVIVED THE TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate: The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal?Çösome of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate?ÇÖs bestselling novel BEFORE WE WERE YOURS and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children?ÇÖs Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents?Çöhiding the fact that many weren?ÇÖt orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate?ÇÖs novel BEFORE WE WERE YOURS brought new awareness of Tann?ÇÖs lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts