Jayne E. Schooler, Betsie L. Norris

Journeys After Adoption

Understanding Lifelong Issues

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What can we learn about the experience of adoption from those who have taken that journey? How can those touched by adoption navigate successfully through the issues of search, reunion, and aftermath? Will those answers have a positive impact on adoption today? Drawing upon the experiences of dozens of triad members-adopted persons, birth parents, and adoptive parents-the authors offer insight into the concerns, issues, joys, and pain experienced by those who lives are framed by adoption. The book explores such questions as: .How do I make the decision to search for my parents? .How do I prepare emotionally? .What are my adoptive parents feeling and thinking? .What if I am rejected, encounter death, or reach a dead end? .How do I develop a relationship with siblings I've never known? The authors deal sensitively with these and many other issues. Attention is also given to the needs and concerns of adoptive parents as their children grow into adults. Practical advice helps prepare triad members to deal emotionally and psychologically with the process of search and reunion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780897898164
• ISBN-10: 0897898168
• Artikelnr.: 22277421

Autorenporträt

Jayne E. Schooler, Betsie L. Norris

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A Look at Issues and Their Impact Secrecy in Adoption and the
High Cost It Required Lifelong Psychological Presence: Can Family Members
Really Be Invisible? Focus on the Adopted Person Growing Up in Closed
Adoption A Walk into the Wilderness: Learning of Your Adoption As an Adult
Focus on the Birthparent Birthmothers and Birthfathers--The Lifelong
Journey Begins: Discovery, Disclosure, Decisions Birthmothers and
Birthfathers--The Journey Continues: The Lifelong Impact of Relinquishment
in Closed Adoption Focus on Understanding Adoptive Parents in Search and
Reunion Communicating the Decision to Search to Your Adoptive Parents The
Process of the Search Making the Decision: To Search or Not to Search
Preparing Emotionally for and Initiating the Search Patchwork Siblings:
Adoptees in Postreunion Relationships Synchronicity in Reunion Dealing
with Special Issues within the Search When the Pieces Don't Fit: Finding
Dead Ends Dead Ends Revisiting an Old Wound: Encountering Denial or
Rejection Facing a History of Abuse or Neglect Searching in Midlife: What
Are the Implications? Postreunion Relationships: Now What? New Beginnings
Changing Times Policy, Etc. Appendix 1:Growing Up in Open Adoption: An
Essay of Life Experience by Sara VanderHaagen Appendix 2: Growing Up in
Transracial Adoption: An Essay of Life Experience by Ai Loan Nguyen
Appendix 3: Search and Reunion Etiquette: The Guide Miss Manners Never
Wrote by Monica Byrne Appendix 4: Making Contact After the Search by Curry
Wolfe Appendix 5: Resources and Recommended Readings Selected Bibliography