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'''Jean M. Paton''' (1908–2002) was an American adoption activist who worked tirelessly "over five decades to reverse harmful policies, practices, and laws concerning adoption and closed records..."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carp |first=E. |url=https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tm70mw02t |title=Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption |date=2014 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-11910-3 |location=Ann Arbor, MI |language=en |doi=10.3998/mpub.6242018}}</ref> |
'''Jean M. Paton''' (1908–2002) was an American adoption activist who worked tirelessly "over five decades to reverse harmful policies, practices, and laws concerning adoption and closed records..."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carp |first=E. |url=https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tm70mw02t |title=Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption |date=2014 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-11910-3 |location=Ann Arbor, MI |language=en |doi=10.3998/mpub.6242018}}</ref> |
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Paton founded the adoptee support and search network, Orphan Voyage in 1953 and was instrumental in the creation of the American Adoption Congress and Concerned United Birthparents in the 1970s. |
Paton founded the adoptee support and search network, Orphan Voyage in 1953 and was instrumental in the creation of the American Adoption Congress and Concerned United Birthparents in the 1970s.<ref name="UOregon">{{cite web |title=Adoption History: Jean M. Paton, The Adopted Break Silence, 1954 |url=https://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/archive/PatonTABS.htm |website=The Adoption History Project |publisher=University of Oregon |access-date=16 November 2024}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:48, 16 November 2024
Jean M. Paton (1908–2002) was an American adoption activist who worked tirelessly "over five decades to reverse harmful policies, practices, and laws concerning adoption and closed records..."[1]
Paton founded the adoptee support and search network, Orphan Voyage in 1953 and was instrumental in the creation of the American Adoption Congress and Concerned United Birthparents in the 1970s.[2]
- ^ Carp, E. (2014). Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.6242018. ISBN 978-0-472-11910-3.
- ^ "Adoption History: Jean M. Paton, The Adopted Break Silence, 1954". The Adoption History Project. University of Oregon. Retrieved 16 November 2024.