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| Books LLC : Relinquishing Parents: Joni Mitchell, Andy Kaufman, Roseanne Barr, Norma Mccorvey, Hank Williams, David Crosby, Mercedes Ruehl | |
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Relinquishing Parents: Joni Mitchell, Andy Kaufman, Roseanne Barr, Norma Mccorvey, Hank Williams, David Crosby, Mercedes Ruehl |
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English |
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Paperback |
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94 |
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2010-05-02 |
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1155270983 |
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Books LLC |
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0.33 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.2 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Joni Mitchell, Andy Kaufman, Roseanne Barr, Norma Mccorvey, Hank Williams, David Crosby, Mercedes Ruehl, Allison Lee Quets. Excerpt: Allison Lee Quets is an American birth-mother of twins, who were placed for adoption with another family when they were six weeks old. She was thrust into the international spotlight in late December 2006 when she fled to Canada with the twins during a legal visitation with them. On September 14, 2007, Quets pleaded guilty to kidnapping in conjunction of the case and was sentenced to time served and probation in December 2007. Subsequent legal attempts to nullify the adoption or reinstitute visitation have been not been successful. Background Quets was a systems engineer, who had worked for Lockheed Martin for 21 years. In 2004, she became pregnant with twins through the process of in vitro fertilization with donated eggs and sperm. During her pregnancy, she suffered hyperemesis gravidarum , a severe form of nausea and vomiting, and gained only 10 pounds during the pregnancy, spending the last five weeks before her due date on a feeding tube. During her illness and the pregnancy, a friend suggested his relatives, the Needhams from North Carolina, as possible adoptive parents. Prior to the birth, Quets discussed with the Needhams the possibility of giving up one of the twins for adoption. She also contacted adoption agencies to make inquiries. The children were born in July 2005 in Florida; feeling unable to bring up either child, she asked the Needhams to adopt both. According to an FBI affidavit, the Needhams withdrew from the possible adoption following a request from Quets for $30,000 for medical bills, and Quets approached another couple. Since they did not accept the visitation rights Quets requested, she returned to the Needhams and requeste...
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