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Examines the effects of adoption on adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents at every stage of life and concludes that adoption is still a worthy solution to a significant social problem.

Experts debate the issues surrounding adoption, including discussions on family preservation, a child's identity, and adoption rights and policies. (view table of contents)

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Seventy women share their feelings on what it was like to give up their child for adoption, and discuss the discovery of pregnancy, childbirth, raising subsequent children, and being found by the grown adopted child (view table of contents)

An intimate account of one woman's relinquishment of her daughter for adoption describes her experiences as an unwed teenage mother, the complexities of the adoption process, and her eventual reunion with her daughter

A critique of the consequences of policies enforced after World War II prior to Roe v. Wade, written by an adoptee, describes how countless single women were compelled to give up their children and how their situations were devastatingly compromised by the growing sexual revolution, limited birth control options, unrealistic social standards, and the unavailability of safe abortions. 60,000 first printing.

Product Description: In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v...read more

An intimate account of one woman's relinquishment of her daughter for adoption describes her experiences as an unwed teenage mother, the complexities of the adoption process, and her eventual reunion with her daughter

In this volume David Brodzinsky, who has conducted one of the nation's largest studies of adopted children, and Marshall Schechter, a noted child psychiatrist who has been involved with adoption related issues for over forty years, have brought together a group of leading researchers from various disciplines to explore the complex interdisciplinary subject of adoption. While recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological and school-related problems compared to their nonadopted peers, and that the rate of referral of adopted children to mental-health facilities is far above what would be expected given their representation in the general population, our understanding of the basis for these problems remains unclear. In this book, theoretical, empirical, clinical, and social policy issues offer new insights into the problems facing parents of adopted children, and especially the children themselves. A comprehensive study, The Psychology of Adoption will be of interest to child psychiatrists, developmental and clinical psychologists, social workers, social service providers, and adoptive parents.

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