Missing Mila, Finding Family : : An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War / / Margaret E. Ward.
In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoption....
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Ward, Margaret E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Missing Mila, Finding Family : An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War / Margaret E. Ward. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (288 p.) : 8 b&w photos text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue:Dalila’s Hammock: San Salvador, El Salvador, February 2005 -- Part One. Our Story -- One. Adoption: Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May– June 1983 -- Two. Rediscovery: Massachusetts, August– December 1997 -- Three. Reunion: Heredia, Costa Rica, December 1997 -- Part Two. Their Stories -- Four. Putting the Pieces Together, 1952– 1992 -- Interlude. Mi fl or favorita/My Favorite Flower -- Five. Imagining Mila: New Hampshire, Summer 2007 -- Interlude. La Guerra verdadera/The True War -- Six. The Disappeared Children of El Salvador -- Interlude. My Perfect World -- Epilogue. One Story -- Appendix I. Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Appendix II. Family Names -- Notes -- References and Suggested Reading -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoption. Within a few weeks, Margaret Ward and Thomas de Witt were the parents of a toddler they named Nelson—an adorable boy whose prior life seemed as mysterious as the fact that government officials in two countries had inexplicably expedited his adoption. In Missing Mila, Finding Family, Margaret Ward tells the poignant and compelling story of this international adoption and the astonishing revelations that emerged when Nelson's birth family finally relocated him in 1997. After recounting their early years together, during which she and Tom welcomed the birth of a second son, Derek, and created a family with both boys, Ward vividly recalls the upheaval that occurred when members of Nelson's birth family contacted them and sought a reunion with the boy they knew as Roberto. She describes how their sense of family expanded to include Nelson's Central American relatives, who helped her piece together the lives of her son's birth parents and their clandestine activities as guerrillas in El Salvador's civil war. In particular, Ward develops an internal dialogue with Nelson's deceased mother Mila, an elusive figure whose life and motivations she tries to understand. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Birthparents El Salvador. Intercountry adoption United States. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/726680 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292735538 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292735538/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue:Dalila’s Hammock: San Salvador, El Salvador, February 2005 -- Part One. Our Story -- One. Adoption: Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May– June 1983 -- Two. Rediscovery: Massachusetts, August– December 1997 -- Three. Reunion: Heredia, Costa Rica, December 1997 -- Part Two. Their Stories -- Four. Putting the Pieces Together, 1952– 1992 -- Interlude. Mi fl or favorita/My Favorite Flower -- Five. Imagining Mila: New Hampshire, Summer 2007 -- Interlude. La Guerra verdadera/The True War -- Six. The Disappeared Children of El Salvador -- Interlude. My Perfect World -- Epilogue. One Story -- Appendix I. Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Appendix II. Family Names -- Notes -- References and Suggested Reading -- Index |
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