Background
Linda Cannon Burgess was born on March 18, 1911, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States.
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The Art of Adoption
(Drawing from her interviews in forty-five homes in which ...)
Drawing from her interviews in forty-five homes in which one hundred forty-six children were placed, a social worker brings to light the hidden fears and anxieties of birth and adoptive parents and adopted children and illuminates the problems of children growing up without a known birth heritage.
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1977
Linda Cannon Burgess
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Linda Cannon Burgess was an executive director at two adoption agencies between 1954 and 1972. She wrote the 1977 Art of Adoption. In 1969 she was the creator and initiator of a mobile childcare facility that allowed caretakers to pick up children from their homes.
Achievements
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A founder of the American Adoption Congress (AAC) during the 1970s, Burgess was given the Mae Vilardi humanitarian award by the AAC in 1999. Burgess was highly praised for her book, which contained perspectives often omitted from other texts, including those of the infant caretaker and biological grandparents.
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The Art of Adoption
(Drawing from her interviews in forty-five homes in which ...)
1977
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The Art of Adoption
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Linda Cannon Burgess married geologist C. Harry Burgess in 1934 and traveled with him on assignments, which included Washington in the 1940s. Linda Cannon Burgess settled in the Washington area after their divorce in 1954.
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American