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Title: Open Adoption Experience : Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families - From Making the Decision Throug by Lois Ruskai Melina ISBN: 0-06-096957-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: If you are adopting a baby put up for adoption...
Comment: ...then this book would help to answer some questions regarding continuing a relationship with the birth family. Unfortunately, if you are a fost/adopt parent - the issues pertaining to establishing on-going relationships with birth parents who have lost their parental rights (as opposed to someone who has chosen to give up their child) are not very well addressed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential reading for anyone considering open adoption
Comment: When we were first considering adopting, this book answered all our questions about openness in the adoption process. The book gave us the knowledge and the confidence to actively seek an open adoption. And now that our adopted son is almost a year old, it's advice is still as relevant as ever. The book explains in accessible language, with compelling real-life examples, how an open adoption can benefit an adopted child, and how adoptive parents can help to make an open adoption work. Indispensible reading!
Rating: 5
Summary: Open adoption'A Rose Garden?
Comment: If I were adopting today and had read this thoughtful book, I would jump at the opportunity for an open adoption. The information on pre-adoption and placement aspects is persuasive for both adoptive and birth parents, especially since the author is non-judgmental. When you think about it, open adoption seems ideal for both parties involved. Really a utopia. I get goose bumps thinking about it. And yet. . . yet. . . The U.S. has gone from one extreme of adoption practice (secrecy) to another, openness. Unfortunately, the adversarial relationship between advocates and critics of openness in adoption is exacerbated by lack of empirical research. It is this lack of empirical evidence that should caution prospective adoptive parents about this new extreme practice. Lois Ruskai Melina's book was published in 1993, but we have now at least one large longitudinal study on openness. Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy report in their study, Openness in Adoption, Exploring Family Connections (Sage 1998): 'The clearest policy implication of our work is that no single type of adoption is best for everyone.' These authors warn that the long-term impact of openness for all parties in the adoptive kinship network is not known and longitudinal research is necessary to answer this question. We now have a generation of children who grew up in open adoptions, and we need to find out from them, now that they are adults, how they perceived the practice in their lives. We do not have such a comprehensive study of their experiences, but only anecdotal records. Even if some adoptive and birth parents like openness, this does not mean that the practice is good for the children. Some research also indicates that birthmothers who see their children suffer more than those who do not see them.
I am an adoptive mother of a secret adoption and was always opposed to secrecy, but since we met our wonderful birthmother 29 years later (she found us) I'm even more opposed to it, seeing what secrecy has done to her. I think I would have loved to have had an open arrangement with her, yet she says that she could not have coped with openness. It would have driven her insane to visit her baby and not be able to take her home. She would greatly have preferred a semi-open practice over a secret one. Incredible to me, our daughter, now age 34, would again have wanted a closed adoption because she does not want to think about the confusion her loving birthmother would have created in her child's mind and heart. This issue drives one to distraction because one wants a clear answer to what practice is best, and there isn't one.
Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
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Title: Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber, Phylis Speedlin ISBN: 0931722209 Publisher: Corona Pub Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Children of Open Adoption and Their Families by Kathleen Silber, Patricia Martinez Dorner ISBN: 0931722780 Publisher: Corona Pub Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition : Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Melina ISBN: 0060957174 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Adoption Without Fear by James L. Gritter ISBN: 0931722713 Publisher: Corona Pub Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Spirit of Open Adoption by James L. Gritter ISBN: 0878686371 Publisher: Child Welfare League of America Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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