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The stranger who bore me : adoptee-birth mother relationships / Karen March.
Author
March, Karen Ruth
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1995.
Description
xii, 160 pages ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HV875.58.C2 M37 1995
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Adoptees
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Canada
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Adoptees
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Canada
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Psychology
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Birthmothers
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Canada
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Identification
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Mother and child
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Canada
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Adoption
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Canada
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Adoptees
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Psychology
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Birthmothers
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Mother and child
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Summary note
In The Stranger Who Bore Me sixty adult adoptees discuss the difficulties they have encountered in a world where biological kinship governs. Each of their stories reveals the personal dilemma created by the societal demand for secrecy and the deep pain and intense joy associated with adoptees making contact with their birth mother. Karen March has created a compelling and informative analysis of this need of some adoptees. Little research has been done on the actual outcome of adoptee-birth parent reunion and most arguments in this controversial area are based on personal anecdotal reports. This book offers the first systematic study of the consequences of reunion. As such it is an invaluable guide for any member of an adoptive triad as well as for professionals and government officials in the field of adoption.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
1. Adoption, Secrecy, and the Desire for Reunion
2. Methodological Issues Involved in the Study of Contact with Birth Mothers
3. Desire for Contact with Birth Mothers and the Reflected Appraisals of Others
4. The Search
5. Contact with the Birth Mother
6. Interaction of Adoptees and Birth Mothers, Negotiation of Roles, and Long-term Contact
7. Completion of Self and Satisfaction with the Contact with the Birth Mother
8. Conclusion.
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ISBN
0802004474 ((bound))
9780802004475 ((bound))
0802072356 ((pbk.))
9780802072351 ((pbk.))
LCCN
95179066
OCLC
31781117
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