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I Was Only Nineteen: A Memoir
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It was a different world in 1966. Considered a social and moral outrage to have a baby out of wedlock, babies were taken from single mothers because they didn’t have husbands.
In I Was Only Nineteen, author Raewyn Harlum tells how she relinquished a baby to whom she had just given birth. At the time, nineteen-year-old Raewyn was homeless and sleeping on the floor of people she’d known four days. Destitute, her possessions filled one suitcase. She had no family or friends in Australia and h...