How Long to Read Forbidden Family

How Long Does it Take to Read Forbidden Family?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read Forbidden Family by Joan Wheeler

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Born the youngest of five children to married parents in 1956, four month old Doris Michol Sippel is relinquished to pre-adoptive parents by her father following her mother's death. She becomes Joan Mary Wheeler through a private (non-agency) closed adoption. Joan grows up an only child in a modest suburban home with loving parents, private schools, and a large extended family. In her senior year of high school, Joan answers a phone call that changes her perception of family: she is found by siblings she was never supposed to know. Shocked, Joan realizes that her parents knew the secret yet deliberately lied to her. Joan's life becomes a mix of anxiety, confusion, joy, grief and anger. She juggles two sets of real parents and families while attending college. She joins adoptees' support groups and begins writing about adoptees' rights in local newspapers at age 19, despite disapproval of many members of her two families. Criticism turns to mocking, false accusations, hate mail and phone calls, and death threats as Joan tries to make sense of her life. Terrorized for decades, Joan is driven to the brink of suicide. She climbs out, only to be dragged down repeatedly by abusive relatives from both families who invade her life. When her marriage deteriorates, she leaves her husband and lives in poverty with their two children. She earns a second college degree, begins a career path then succumbs to stress-induced illnesses. Through it all, one central question drives her: Why does discrimination against bastards, orphans, and the adopted exist? Joan asserts, "We, The People, can and must end discrimination against adoptees by insisting on Federal legislation to override State laws to restore adoptees' civil and human rights to the non-restricted and non-redacted certified truth of our births (a right we had prior to 1930 nationwide, and prior to 1936 in New York), and to end the 85-year-long practice of creating amended - falsified - birth certificates for each new adoptee in America."

How long is Forbidden Family?

Forbidden Family by Joan Wheeler is 374 pages long, and a total of 94,996 words.

This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Forbidden Family Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 39 minutes to read Forbidden Family aloud.

What Reading Level is Forbidden Family?

Forbidden Family is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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