Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience
Editorial Reviews
--Psychology Today
"Important and powerful...[the author] is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents."
Book Description
Rich in insight and compassion, Lost and Found is an eloquent exploration of the psychological issues faced by adoptees and by all children who have been separated from a parent and denied the right to know their true origins. Betty Jean Lifton, herself an adoptee, draws upon her own experience and her extensive work with adoptees, birth mothers and fathers, and adoptive parents to explore the harmful effects of secrecy on the identity of a child and the liberating possibilities of openness. A new Preface links the psychology of the adopted to that of babies born of surrogacy and other reproductive technologies. And a new Afterword explores the most recent developments in the adoption field, such as post-adoption counseling, open adoption, and the controversy around the adoption syndrome. The author concludes with a code of rights and responsibilities for everyone in the adoption circle, along with an updated list of support groups and counseling clinics for the adoption triad in the United States and Canada.
Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience,Betty Jean Lifton,Harper Perennial,0060971320,Adopted children,Adoption,Child Care/Parenting,Children, Adopted,Family relationships,General,Parenting - General,Psychology,United States
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