Warshaw, Melinda A.

Melinda Warshaw is an outspoken adoptee and advocate for adoptee's rights. She is an artist, a musician, a writer, and a teacher like many of her biological relatives. She was born during the Baby Scoop Era, a period of time in US History where it was deemed morally unacceptable for a single woman to become pregnant and try and keep her child. Thousands of young women were sent to maternity homes where they were usually forced to work while pregnant, deliver their child, and were then brainwashed to sign their babies over for adoption by parents, the clergy, or social workers representing the