Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections
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Book Overview
Harold Grotevant and Ruth McRoy provide a thorough review of the issues involved in openness in adoption and a clear description of the methods and results of the landmark research project they led. They provide rich data from an exceptional sample of adoptees, their adoptive parents and their birth mothers, and provide a perspective of their experiences as triangular families′ which openness generates. The last chapter reaches some general conclusions and discusses implications for future adoption practice.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803957793
ISBN13:9780803957794
Release Date:June 1998
Publisher:Sage Publications, Inc
Length:239 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 4.7" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Hard facts about the effects of OA
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Finally, open adoption gets its due in this comprehensive study of its effects on all triad members. The research seems to prove that more openness is better; and that adoptees who have ongoing relationships with their birthfamilies have stronger, better bonds with their adoptive families, too. This isn't easy reading--as the results of a research study, it's written in academic style--but it should still be required reading for all prospective adoptive parents.
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