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"Exiled Mother": A natural mother who has lost her child to adoption solely because of her age and/or lack of support/information/resources. An unrecognized mother, she has been thrown away, banished and discarded by her parents, the adoption industry and society, who deem her unworthy to raise her own child.

 

"Adoption is a violent act, a political act of aggression towards a woman who has supposedly offended the sexual mores by committing the unforgivable act of not suppressing her sexuality, and therefore not keeping it for trading purposes through traditional marriage. The crime is a grave one, for she threatens the very fabric of our society. The penalty is severe. She is stripped of her child by a variety of subtle and not so subtle manoeuvres and then brutally abandoned."
— Joss Shawyer, Death by Adoption, Cicada Press (1979)