User talk:Jugliz25A/sandbox

Talk:Baby M I think that this paragraph is misleading: "After reaching the age of maturity in March 2004, Melissa Stern legally terminated Mary Beth's parental rights and formalized Elizabeth's maternity through adoption proceedings. When the controversy died down, Whitehead divorced her husband, remarried to Dean Gould, and had two more children, Austin and Morgan."

It gives that impression that Mary Beth Whitehead divorced Rick Whitehead and married Dean Gould and had two more children AFTER 2004 and Melissa Stern's termination of her parental rights. She in fact ended her first marriage and married Dean Gould during the custody trial; the second child was born in 1989. I think this is a problem both because it is misleading, and because her decision to divorce Rick Whitehead brought her negative publicity.

I haven't been able to locate the date for when the Goulds married, but I found this caption to a photograph in The New York Post, October 7, 2019, "Surrogacy is a complicated -- but ultimately joyful -- path to parenthood," by Elizabeth Kiefer: "Surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead-Gould, center, and her husband, Dean Gould, arrive for the start of a hearing on her visitation rights with her 2-year-old daughter, known as Baby M, in Hackensack, NJ, Monday, March 29, 1988."

Their second child was born in 1989: The New York Times, March 6, 1989, "Public and Private: Another Kid in the Kitchen" by Anne Quindlen,

I propose to drop the sentence about Mary Beth Whitehead's book, since there is a more complete reference in the section: "In Popular Culture"

I propose to rewrite it as: During the custody trials, Whitehead divorced her husband and remarried to Dean Gould.[1] The Goulds had two more children, Austin and Morgan.

After reaching the age of maturity in March 2004, Melissa Stern legally terminated Mary Beth's parental rights and formalized Elizabeth's maternity through adoption proceedings.

"I love my family very much and am very happy to be with them," Melissa told a reporter for the New Jersey Monthly in 2007, referring to the Sterns. "I'm very happy I ended up with them. I love them, they're my best friends in the whole world, and that's all I have to say about it."[2]

I have to work on putting in references, obviously. Jugliz25A (talk) 02:39, 18 June 2021 (UTC)