Beschreibung
The book describes the experiences that people have had when tracing their birth parents, as well as offering practical advice on how to go about searching and what to expect emotionally. Each section has an advice box which summarizes key points, notes issues to pay particular attention to, or offers draft letters that readers can adapt for their own needs. The appendix contains useful addresses and weblinks, and includes checklists for searching and for the reunion. Chapters include reunion with birth fathers and birth siblings, as well as with birth mothers, the relationship with the adoptive family and dealing with reunions that break down.
Autorenportrait
DR LIZ TRINDER is a researcher into family relationships. Most of her work is in the area of contact after divorce, e.g. the recent report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on
Making Contact. This is the first time she has written about adoption. She was herself adopted.
JULIA FEAST currently works at the British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), London, as the Policy, Research and Development Consultant. In the past she managed the post-adoption and care counselling research project, The Childrens Society and has counselled a number of people who have been adopted and also those who were brought up in Care through the search and reunion process. She has published many articles on the subject of Adoption Search and Reunion and also the information needs of children conceived as a result of donor-assisted conception. She is co-author ofPreparing for Reunion: Experiences from the Adoption Circle (The Childrens Society, 1994; new edition 1998) andAdoption, Search and Reunion: The Long-Term Experience of Adopted Adults (The Childrens Society, 2000; now published by BAAF), andSearching Questions: Origins, Identity and Adoption (BAAF, 2003).
DR DAVID HOWE has a long-standing interest in all aspects of adoption. He is the author of many books, includingHalf a Million Women: Mothers who Lose their Children by Adoption (Penguin),Adopters on Adoption (BAAF),Patterns of Adoption: Nature, Nurture and Psychosocial Development (Blackwell Science), and, with Julia Feast,Adoption, Search and Reunion: The Long-Term Experience of Adopted Adults (The Childrens Society, 2000; now published by BAAF).
Inhalt
About the Authors vi
Preface vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
2 Taking the first step: Birth record information 5
3 On the search trail 19
4 Reunions with birth mothers 33
5 Reunions with birth fathers 57
6 Reunions with siblings 69
7 The adoptive family and reunion 79
8 Rejection and reunions that break down 97
9 The search and reunion journey 111
Appendix: Information on search and reunion in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA 131
Further reading 153
Index 155
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