num_pages: 438
description: Chrissy Rollings has a mountain of troubles to overcome one that would crush most other girls her age.She was born in a small North Carolina town in 1952 into a poor but happy and loving family that always managed to scrape by each month... until the night her father died in a car crash plunging the family into poverty. Chrissys mother is forced to take low-paying jobs to supplement her meager welfare checks leaving Chrissy to raise her five siblings. But even these sacrifices are not enough.North Carolina was among the states to practice eugenics  forcing sterilization procedures on thousands of people deemed unfit to reproduce. When Chrissys mother was faced with the choice of having 14-year-old Chrissy sterilized or losing her welfare check she makes the only choice she feels she can and signs the consent form. That act of survival sets into motion a series of events that shape the course of Chrissys life forever.
language: English
title: Unfit
publisher: Possibilities Publishing Company