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Lost & found : the adoption experience
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Lost & found : the adoption experience

Author: Betty Jean Lifton
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : 3rd ed., expanded and updatedView all editions and formats
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"The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton's Lost and Found advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states' policies of maintaining closed birth records. For nearly three decades the book has topped recommended reading lists for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption - including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families." "This  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Betty Jean Lifton
ISBN: 9780472033287
OCLC Number: 301560459
Notes: Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1979.
Description: xii, 330 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Preface : Adoptee with a capital A --
pt. 1. Lost --
On being adopted --
Messages from the underground --
The Adoption game --
The Chosen baby --
The Adoptee as mythic hero --
The Adoptee as double --
The Adoptee as survivor --
Adolescent baggage --
Good adoptee --
bad adoptee --
The Adoptee as adult --
pt. 2. Lost --
tWaking up from the great sleep --
Who searches? --
The Decision to search --
Stages of the search --
Varieties of reunion experience --
The Journey after reunion --
Father ; the mini search --
Siblings --
The Unsuspecting spouse --
Aftermath : the restless pulse --
pt. 3. Roots and wings --
Taking wing --
Telling the adoptive parents --
The Chosen parents --
Telling the child --
Birth mothers : are they baby machines? --
Birth mothers who search --
Adoptive parents : are they baby-sitters? --
The Right to know --
Afterword --
Rights and responsibilities for everyone in the adoption circle --
The Adoption resource network --
Recommended reading.
Other Titles: Lost and found
Responsibility: Betty Jean Lifton.
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"The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton's Lost and Found advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states' policies of maintaining closed birth records. For nearly three decades the book has topped recommended reading lists for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption - including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families." "This expanded and updated edition, with new material on the controversies concerning adoption, artificial insemination, and newer reproductive technologies, continues to add to the discussion on this important topic. A new preface and afterword by the author have been added, as well as a greatly expanded resources section that in addition to relevant organizations now lists useful Web sites."--BOOK JACKET.

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