The Adoption Triangle Revisited: A Study of Adoption, Search and Reunion - Softcover

Triseliotis, John; Feast, Julia; Kyle, Fiona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903699711 ISBN 13: 9781903699713

Publisher: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), 2005

Synopsis

What do adoptive parents think of their child's search for birth parents and other family members? How do birth mothers react to being approached? The answers to these and other questions related to the effects of adoption as they appeared in a survey undertaken in the year 2000 are listed here. Presenting the individual perspective of birth mothers, adopted people and adoptive parents on what the adoption search and reunion experience has meant to them, the study then examines the reactions of matched pairs of adopted people and their birth mothers and adoptive parents.

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Synopsis

Research report giving a comprehensive picture of the adoption experience and the impact and outcome of the search and reunion process for all the key players What do adoptive parents think of their son or daughter's search for birth parents and other family members? How do birth mothers react to being approached? Have they thought about the child they parted with and longed for contact? Where do birth fathers fit in? And how do adopted people handle having a birth and an adoptive family? Based on the experience of 93 adoptive and birth parents, 126 adopted people and 15 birth fathers, this book provides some answers based on a study in early 2000. Presenting the individual perspective of birth mothers, adopted people and adoptive parents on what the adoption search and reunion experience has meant to them, the book then examines and contrasts the feelings, thoughts and reactions of matched pairs of adopted people and their birth mothers and adoptive parents. This unique and fascinating study includes for the first time pairs of birth mothers and adoptive parents and their sons and daughters and finally triads of birth mothers, adopted people and adoptive parents highlighting shared and different feelings and evaluations of their experiences of adoption, search and reunion. It provides new information and insights for all those with a personal or professional interest in adoption and the search and reunion experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903699711
• ISBN 13: 9781903699713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200