Drawn from the files of BigHugs.com, a successful online search organization, this collection of three touching, inspirational true-life stories describes the reunions of siblings separated by circumstance and time. Original.

Product Description: Book by Minniti, Jennifer

Product Description: Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes the subject of this book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Drawn from the files of BigHugs.com, a successful online search organization, this collection of three touching, inspirational true-life stories describes the reunions of siblings separated by circumstance and time. Original.

A sensitive guide to the adoption process uses real-life stories to prepare adoptees for the often turbulent process of a reunion with birth parents and includes a list of valuable resources to help readers with their search, support groups, and Web sites. Original. (view table of contents)

Chronicles the effects of secrecy and disclosure on the public policies, legal history, and cultural meanings of adoption (view table of contents)

Product Description: Harold Grotevant and Ruth McRoy provide a thorough review of the issues involved in openness in adoption and a clear description of the methods and results of the landmark research project they led. They provide rich data from an exceptional sample of adoptees, their adoptive parents and their birth mothers, and provide a perspective of their experiences as `triangular families' which openness generates...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Advises those who were adopted as children how to organize a search for their natural parents and reviews each state's legal considerations and records centers (view table of contents)

Offers resources for conducting a search for a missing relative, and covers the emotional as well as the practical issues one may encounter

Members of adoption triangles—adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents—must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-discovery outweigh another's wish for confidentiality? In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by their biological families.Wegar begins by considering the historical and legal development of adoption and of sealed-records policies, showing how kinship ideology, the helping professions, and gender issues intersect to frame adoption policies and the ongoing debate. Drawing on articles in social work and mental health journals, activist newsletters, and autobiographies by search activists, as well as on popular images of adoption portrayed in talk shows and other media, she analyzes the rhetoric to reveal the unconscious biases that exist. She concludes with a discussion of ways in which adoption reformers can avoid perpetuating harmful and confining images of those who participate in adoption. (view table of contents)

A guide for anyone affected by adoption includes guidance on making the decision to search, negotiating legalities, surviving the emotional turbulence of a reunion, and dealing with the impact on adoptive parents

The author describes her upbringing in Ohio, her search for her birthparents in South Carolina after the deaths of her adoptive parents, and her discovery of two half-sisters and a half-brother

Product Description: Book by Aigner, Hal