Monday, March 22, 2010

A young mother's painful choice: Giving away child, just for a while

A young mother's painful choice: Giving away child, just for a while

Jessica-Anne Becker clasped her husband's hand tightly as they walked, a bit tentatively, down the Waukegan hospital hallway.

"I just want to make sure Hazel is OK," the mother of three young daughters said. She and husband David had reason to feel nervous, even a little awkward. They were about to temporarily take on a fourth child, a newborn, the daughter of 19-year-old mother Hazel Evans.

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