Letters to Stephanie (2024)

In the United States, pregnancy out of wedlock used to carry a social stigma. Between 1945 and 1985 over four and one-half million unwed pregnant young girls/women, as an alternative to being shunned, publicly ridiculed, and forced to be homeless, lived in secrecy, some against their will, at "rescue homes" in exchange for releasing their babies for adoption. Letters to Stephanie is about a baby girl named Stephanie that was saved from abortion and born under these circumstances. Social Services, let her paternal grandmother write a letter without any identifying information in it for her adoption file. Stephanie would be permitted to see her file at age 21. Hoping to see Stephanie again, Anna put clues in her letter. At age 30 Stephanie obtained her adoption file, followed her grandmother's clues and found her grandmother.