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Journeys After Adoption Understanding Lifelong Issues
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Jayne E. Schooler, Betsie L. Norris
Book Code: G816
ISBN: 0-89789-816-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-816-4
312 pages
Bergin & Garvey Trade
Publication: 7/30/2002
List Price: $28.95 (UK Sterling Price: £16.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Norris is a thorough contribution to the discussions of an important subject....[O]ffers an exhaustive amount of information and stands one essential reference for anyone touched by afoption or working with people who are.
    —Ohioana Quarterly     2003
Description: 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.
    • Table of Contents:
    • 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
    LC Card Number: 2002016485
    LCC Class: HV875
    Dewey Class: 155
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