Being adopted the lifelong search for self
This groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Anchor Books,
1993.
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| Edition: | 1st Anchor Books ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue Our six themes
- Voices of adoptees
- Personal note
- Introduction: the context of adoption
- Adoption: solution or risk?
- Losses of adoption
- Lifelong search for self
- Adoption adjustment across the life span
- Impact of open adoption and other variations part 1 Adopted child
- Infancy
- the first year of life
- Sense of self, the growth of trust
- Setting the stage for adoption adjustment
- Word about bonding
- Attachment: the essential bond
- Vagaries of temperment
- Different style of family building
- Part II The Adopted adult
- When are you a "grown-up"?
- Search for identity continues
- Seeking and achieving intimacy
- Parenthood: undoing past mistakes
- Acceptance about being adopted
- Part III Conclusions
- Implications of international adoptions
- Special needs: the new euphemism
- How open is open enough?
