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Lee Campbell, the founder in 1976 of Concerned United Birthparents (CUB), makes a 1979 solo and center stage appearance on the "Donahue" show.
For the first time on nationally syndicated television, a birthmother confides her own and other mothers' experiences of surrendering their children. She also describes the PTSD process she went through to forget - as her social worker had told her to do - and what it was like to belatedly remember painful memories. She ties her story of reuniting with her 15-year-old son and his family to other mothers who also need to find their children missing in adoption and to reunite with them. She further reveals how she reluctantly accepted her mission to become an adoption reform activist, and how the closed adoption system will inevitably become more open.
Audience reaction illustrates common attitudes in the 1970s toward adoption surrender and reunion in general, and about birthparents and Lee Campbell's life and work in particular.
About Concerned United Birthparents (CUB).
Founded by Lee Campbell in 1976, CUB is the first, and the longest-lasting, organization in the world to support and advocate for mothers and fathers who lost children to the adoption industry. Along with CUB's ongoing focus on birthparents, today's CUB serves everyone affected by adoption. CUB believes that when feelings and experiences hidden behind adoption's façade are exposed, healing and wisdom follow.
On its website, CUB also makes available to members and eligible professionals more than 4,000 pages of its history. Meanwhile, Lee Campbell has captured some of this history in two books available on Amazon. "Stow Away: They told me to forget. And I did. Now my memory has mutiny in mind" and "Cast Off: They called us dangerous women. So we organized and proved them right."