Talk:Georgia Tann

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The Tennessee Children's Home Society thing was a huge scandal in the 1950s with screaming headlines and the whole deal. This woman worked with a corrupt female judge to literally snatch children from playgrounds and front yards and offer them for sale to the highest bidder. She did a lot of legitimate adoption work too, which makes things even more confusing. Thousands of parents are still trying to discover where their children went, thousands of adoptees are trying to find out who they really are. I couldn't find any reference to her in the articles on adoption or orphanages, so I thought I would do one about her and possibly a separate one about the Society although I don't think so. I am not one of the people affected, I am just interested in the story. You may have seen the film Stolen Babies with Mary Tyler Moore some years ago, or read Babies For Sale by Linda Astin. --Bluejay Young 13:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, maybe <500 Google hits, but for something that happened in the 1950's, the number of hits "required" should probably lower, don't you think? Elf-friend 08:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

A number of her illegal adoptions were apparently attempts to rescue abused children. This is why it gets so confusing. Bluejay Young 04:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other information

I'm not sure whether this belongs in the main article (which I have deleted it from), but I don't see any harm in including it on the talk page:

For information on illegal adoptions through the Tennessee Children's Home, the following address can be contacted: The Right To Know/P.O. Box 34334/Memphis, TN 38134.