Where's Linda Joy today?
Everyone who has read Anne Fessler's "The Girls Who Went Away" will remember the description of Life Magazine's 1951 cover story on the joys of adoption
Now that Google Books has indexed Life's archives, you can read it online.
Pretty bizarro.
I wonder what Linda Joy thinks about this now?
11 complaints from ingrates:
That was the same society that found me a home...My amom was a very good housekeeper.
That creeps me out Joy. I don't like the image of infant you going through a review by the 'conception committee'. Or infant anyone for that matter.
Yes, it is creepy. I know how Harry Potter feels when he hears the word "Voldermort" because that is how CHS sounds to me, makes my blood run cold.
Yes, I was inspected and tested, I used to have the passing the adoptablity test result but burned them in a fit.
What ever happened to the rejected rejects?
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What a nauseating piece by Life magazine, and to think we thought of them as reputable.
I too was "tested" for quality assurance. Apparently it was all the rage when I was placed for adoption in 1962. I was told that it was particularly important because I'd spent time living with my birthmother. Sigh. I mean, we all know how bad that is for a kid.
Ok, so how additionally weird is this. Photo's from the Linda Joy Young baby adoptee "poster child" can be bought on Amazon for like 49.99...
jaysus, can you imagine seeing yourself all over posters?
It seems that Linda Joy died of leukemia. I found a follow-up story in LIfe online about the little boy they later adopted. Sad all around.
Oh my god.... :(
I am very interested in reading this. I believe I have discovered another lie my adoptive parents told me and that all the tests I had at age 11, right before I was officially adopted, were the fit to be adopted tests. And the reason they told me was just something they made up. It just never ends.
Damn.
Chilling.
Priceless. Thank you for unearthing this.
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