Marilyn Churley, author of Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son will be at The Ginger Press on Monday morning, October 19 at 11:00 following her CFOS interview with Bill Murdoch (9:00-10:00).
Both a personal and a political story, Shameless is a powerful memoir about a mother's struggle with loss, love, secrets and lies -- and an adoption system shrouded in shame. At the age of 19 and living far from home, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over 20 years later, as a Member of Provincial Parliament, she found herself in a surprising and powerful position; she became fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform Ontario's adoption disclosure laws and find her son.
Marilyn Churley writes: "Opening up records to adult adoptees and biological parents...was about righting a historic wrong that caused monumental harm to many people...The minority opposed to opening up the records were wildly passionate and very committed to stopping legislation from going forward and I think many of them were driven by their own secrets."
