This book really gave me new perspective on what my birth mother went through during her pregnancy in 1967. We have such a hard time relating now and the women's stories help me to see why she made decisions later in her life. Her pregnancy and attachment to me is so much more emotional that mine with her and reading about journeys of other birth mothers helps me to understand that a little more. She never had any other biological children, and strangely neither did my birth father.