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Adoption narratives written by adoptees themselves were rare during the first half of the twentieth century. In this report, the author informally surveyed nine acquaintances who had also been adopted around 1900. Her stories of success and failure reinforced the professional consensus about telling. The anecdotes about adoptees who never were told, and turned out badly as a result, suggested that a fair number of adoptive parents kept the fact of adoption secret for a very long time, or even forever.
Roger and Mary and Jack, Alice and Harold, Hermione, Jane, the sisters Marie and Monica, and I myself were all children together—children who started out in life inauspiciously, who were gathered up by society and redistributed among those who wanted us instead of being left with those who didn’t. Where are we today? . . .
One or two of us are doing credit enough to our families, notably the gay and pretty Alice, and Roger, who fitted into a family of “real” children with surprising success. Several others, particularly the sisters and Jack, are making their own way in the world, and so am I; though our parents are not particularly impressed over the means we have chosen. But Mary, through no fault of her own, is an anxious and unhappy person, Harold is almost the stock example of a failure and a drifter, Jane is a flourishing prostitute, and Hermione is dead.
What was the matter with us, anyway? . . .
Some time ago I inquired of several adoption agencies whether they had any information on the adult lives of the children they had placed; and as none had any real material on the subject I determined to find out what I could for myself, by looking up the histories of the adopted children I had known. I wanted to discover how much the fact of adoption had to do with the adult success or failure of each one. I could only conclude, from what I found out, that it had almost everything to do with it. . . .