Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War

by Margaret E. Ward

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292729081
• ISBN13: 9780292729087
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"