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Suggested Reading
Adoption Bibliography
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Search,
Aftermath & Adjustments, Patricia Sanders & Nancy Sitterly,
1981. (Available from LSS-MT)
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Search: A
Handbook for Adoptees & Birthparents,
Jane Askin, Third Edition, Oryx Press, PO Box 33889, Phoenix, AZ, 85067-3889,
1998. The author shares her method of research in seeking the facts of
her birth, the problems and fears that searchers face and her heartfelt belief
in "the right to know."
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Birthbond:
Reunions Between Birthparents and Adoptees, Judith Gedinaan &
Linda Brown
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The Other
Mother, Carol Schaefer, Soho Press, 1991.
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The Family of
Adoption, Joyce Magurie Pavao, Beacon Press, 25 Beacon Street,
Boston, MA, 02108-2892, 1988.
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The Adoption
Life Cycle, The Children and Their Families Through the Years,
Elinor B. Rosenberg, The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc., 866 Third
Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, 1992.
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Birthright,
Jean A.S. Strauss, Penguin Books USA Inc., 375 Hudson St., New York, NY,
10014, 1994. The guide to search and reunion for adoptees, birthparents,
and adoptive parents.
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Waiting to
Forget, Margaret Moorman, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500
Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10110, 1996. A mother opens the door to her
secret past.
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Lost & Found,
Betty Jean Lifton, Dial Press, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY, 10017.
The author, an adoptee, interweaves her own experiences with other adopted
persons. Ms. Lifton is also the author of
Twice Born.
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The Adoption
Triangle, Arthur D. Sorosky, M.D., Annette Baran, M.S.W. &
Reuben Pennor, M.S.W., Doubleday & Co., 245 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10017,
1978. Discusses the effects of sealed records on adoptees, birthparents,
and adoptive parents.
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How it Feels to be
Adopted, Jill Krementz,
Alfred A. Knoff, New York, 1982. Personal accounts of 19 adopted
children.
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Dear Birthmother,
Kathleen Silber & Phylis Speedlin,
Third Edition, Corona Publishing Company, PO Drawer 12407, San Antonio, TX,
78212, 1998. New practices in open placement and open adoption with
dozens of sensitively written letters from all persons in the adoptive circle.
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Perspectives on a
Grafted Tree,
Patricia Irwin Johnson, editor, Perspectives Press, 905 West Wildwood Ave.,
Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46807. Poems and illustrations of 65 authors from
all persons in the adoption triangle.
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An Adopted
Women, Katrina Maxtone-Graham. Remi Books, 205 East 78th
St., New York, NY, 10021. A true story of one woman's search for the
families of her past.
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The
Birthmother's Perspective, Concerned United Birthparents, Inc.,
(Pub.), Milford, MA (updated pamphlet).
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Open Adoption
and Open Placement, Robie, Adoption Press, Brooklyn Park, MN,
1981.
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Mothers and
Their Adopted Children, Dorothy W. Smith & Laurie N. Sherwen,
1988, ISBN: 0-913292-40-0.
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Whose Child Am
I?, John Y. Powell, Ph.D., 1985, ISBN: 0-913292-41-9.
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I Would Have
Searched Forever, Sandra Kay Musser, Haven Books, Plainfield,
NJ, 1979.
Other resources available through the
Adoption Book Catalog, PO Box 359, Ringoes, NJ, 08551-0359; Phone
1-800-765-2367; www.tapestrybooks.com
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