Search & Reunion

Adoptee

Whose Child?: An Adoptee's Healing Journey From Relinquishment Through Reunion…and Beyond
Kasey Hamner
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An account of one adoptee's life story written for members of the adoption community, helping professionals, or anyone touched by adoption. It spans from relinquishment through reunion.

 

Adult

Adoption Reunion Survival Guide
Julie Bailey
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This compassionate guide offers help to adoptees and birthparents who are considering or have already had a reunion. It includes indispensable and practical suggestions for arranging a successful first meeting, avoiding common pitfalls, and establishing a positive longer-term relationship. THE ADOPTION REUNION SURVIVAL GUIDE also contains invaluable materials to help you navigate the legal system that still sets many obstacles in the path of reunion.

 

Journeys After Adoption: Understanding Lifelong Issues
Jayne E. Schooler
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This book explores how to make the decision to search for parents, how to prepare emotionally, what are adoptive parents feeling and thinking, what to do if rejected, encounter death, or reach a dead end, and how to develop a relationship with siblings never known.

 

Other Titles

Disturbing the Peace
Nancy Newman
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This is a novel about search for ones self-identity. Sarah is less than satisfied with her life. She has a career that she absolutely adores and true romance on the horizon. But there's something missing. Sarah never met the birth mother who gave her up for adoption. And that hole in her past has colored everything that came after it. Now, with the big "three-five" looming, Sarah's setting off on a wild Manhattan odyssey in search of the woman who gave her life. But the sages say you should be very careful what you wish for. The mother she's been seeking may not turn out to be the one Sarah finds – and she may just rock Sarah's world!

 

Follow Your Heart
Lori Paris
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When a young woman discovers she was adopted as an infant, she makes a bold decision to seek out and find her birth parents. Little does she realize how it will forever change her life. Follow Your Heart is an exercise in love and compassion, a must read for all who believe in the power of love, and the strength of family.

 

Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience
Betty Jean Lifton
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Exploration of the psychological issues faced by adoptees and children who have been separated from a parent and denied the right to know their true origins.

 

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