The only reminder one woman has of her birth parents is a medallion of the Virgin Mary that was attached to her diaper when she was presented from a home for unwed mothers to her adoptive parents.

The only reminder one woman has of her birth parents is a medallion of the Virgin Mary that was attached to her diaper when she was presented from a home for unwed mothers to her adoptive parents.

Whether or not a girl does marry the child’s father—and relatively few do—she seems to emerge with a sounder sense of values, a conviction that the shame of unwed pregnancy is not the end of ...