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Janine M. Baer
Janine Baer is an adoptee who studied adoption at San Francisco State University in the 1990s; she then published her master's thesis as "Growing in the Dark: Adoption Secrecy and Its Consequences....view moreJanine Baer is an adoptee who studied adoption at San Francisco State University in the 1990s; she then published her master's thesis as "Growing in the Dark: Adoption Secrecy and Its Consequences."
A lifelong Californian, she published the "Chain of Life" newsletter from 1989 to 1997 in which contributors articulated a feminist vision of adoption. Janine currently lives just outside Berkeley, California. As of 2017, adoptee birth certificates are still sealed in California. She met her birth family in the 1970s and '80s, thanks to her adoptive mother inquiring about her original mother's name when Janine was born.view less