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Tables of Contents for Journeys After Adoption
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
xv
Fate's Echo
xix
Part I: A Look at Issues and Their Impact
1
32
Secrecy in Adoption and the High Cost It Required
3
14
Lifelong Psychological Presence: Can Family Members Really Be Invisible?
17
16
Deborah L. Fravel
Part II: Focus on the Adopted Person
33
32
Growing Up in Closed Adoption
35
14
A Walk into the Wilderness: Learning of Your Adoption As an Adult
49
16
Part III: Focus on the Birthparent
65
28
Birthmothers and Birthfathers-The Lifelong Journey Discovery, Disclosure, Decisions
67
12
Birthmothers and Birthfathers-The Journey Continues: The Lifelong Impact of Relinquishment in Closed Adoption
79
14
Part IV: Focus on Understanding Adoptive Parents in Search and Reunion
93
16
Communicating the Decision to Search to Your Adoptive Parents
95
14
Part V: The Process of the Search
109
62
Making the Decision: To Search or Not to Search
111
14
Preparing Emotionally for and Initiating the Search
125
18
Patchwork Siblings: Adoptees in Postreunion Relationship
143
14
LaVonne H. Stiffler
Synchronicity in Reunion
157
14
LaVonne H. Stiffler
Part VI: Dealing with Special Issues within the Search
171
74
When the Pieces Don't Fit: Finding Dead Ends or Death
173
14
Revisiting an Old Wound: Encountering Denial or Rejection
187
10
Facing a History of Abuse or Neglect
197
14
Searching in Midlife: What Are the Implications?
211
12
Postreunion Relationships: Now What? New Beginnings
223
20
Changing Times
243
2
Appendix One Growing Up in Open Adoption: An Essay of Life Experience
245
8
Sara VanderHaagen
Appendix Two Growing Up in Transracial Adoption: An Essay of Life Experience
253
6
Ai Loan Nguyen
Appendix Three Search and Reunion Etiquette: The Guide Miss Manners Never Wrote
259
8
Monica M. Byrne
Appendix Four Making Contact After the Search
267
8
Curry Wolfe
Appendix Five Resources and Recommended Readings
275
4
Selected Bibliography
279
4
Index
283
8
About the Authors and Contributors
291