| Edition |
First Anchor Books Edition |
| Description |
ix, 213 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205) and index. |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Our six themes -- Voices of adoptees -- Personal note -- Introduction: the context of adoption -- Adoption: solution or risk? -- Losses of adoption -- Lifelong search for self -- Adoption adjustment across the life span -- Impact of open adoption and other variations -- part 1. Adopted child -- Infancy -- the first year of life -- Sense of self, the growth of trust -- Setting the stage for adoption adjustment -- Word about bonding -- Attachment: the essential bond -- Vagaries of temperament -- Different style of family building -- Part II. The Adopted adult -- When are you a "grown-up"? -- Search for identity continues -- Seeking and achieving intimacy -- Parenthood: undoing past mistakes -- Acceptance about being adopted -- Part III. Conclusions -- Implications of international adoptions -- Special needs: the new euphemism -- How open is open enough? |
| Language |
Text in American English. |
| Subject |
Adoptees -- Psychology.
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Adopted children -- Psychology.
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Life cycle, Human.
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Maturation (Psychology)
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Socialization.
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Adopted children -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst00797061
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Adoptees -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst00797073
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Life cycle, Human. (OCoLC)fst00998248
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Maturation (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01012494
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Socialization. (OCoLC)fst01123768
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| Added Author |
Schechter, Marshall D., author.
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Henig, Robin Marantz, author.
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Anchor Books, publisher.
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| ISBN |
0385414269 |
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9780385414265 |
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