The Adoption Reunion Handbook

Many adopted people today try to find information about their origins and search for birth family members.
Based on a large–scale research study, the authors Liz Trinder, Julia Feast and David Howe have drawn on the real–life experience of adopted people who have searched for, and had a reunion with, birth relatives. The Adoption Reunion Handbook combines comprehensive and practical step–by–step guidance and advice on:how to beginwhat to expect emotionallythe legal frameworkfinding names and addresseshow to set up a reunionmaking the reunion work long termrejection and reunion breakdownfurther help and advice.
This ′how to′ guide is essential for everyone involved, particularly those considering searching for information on their birth relatives. It will also be of use to birth parents, adoptive parents, adoption charities, social workers, psychologists and counsellors.

Spis treści:
About the authors.
Preface.
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction.
2. Taking the first step: Birth record information.
3. On the search trail.
4. Reunions with birth mothers.
5. Reunions with birth fathers.
6. Reunions with siblings.
7. The adoptive family and reunion.
8. Rejection and reunions that break down.
9. The search and reunion journey.
Appendix: Information on search and reunion in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.
Further reading.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
DR LIZ TRINDER is a researcher into family relationships. Most of her work is in the area of contact after divorce, e.g. the recent report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Making Contact. This is the first time she has written about adoption. She was herself adopted.
JULIA FEAST currently works at the British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), London, as the Policy, Research and Development Cons ultant. In the past she managed the post–adoption and care counselling research project, The Children’s Society and has counselled a number of people who have been adopted and also those who were brought up in Care through the search and reunion process. She has published many articles on the subject of Adoption Search and Reunion and also the information needs of children conceived as a result of donor–assisted conception. She is co–author of Preparing for Reunion: Experiences from the Adoption Circle (The Children’s Society, 1994; new edition 1998) and Adoption, Search and Reunion: The Long–Term Experience of Adopted Adults (The Children’s Society, 2000; now published by BAAF), and Searching Questions: Origins, Identity and Adoption (BAAF, 2003).
DR DAVID HOWE has a long–standing interest in all aspects of adoption. He is the author of many books, including Half a Million Women: Mothers who Lose their Children by Adoption (Penguin), Adopters on Adoption (BAAF), Patterns of Adoption: Nature, Nurture and Psychosocial Development (Blackwell Science), and, with Julia Feast, Adoption, Search and Reunion: The Long–Term Experience of Adopted Adults (The Children’s Society, 2000; now published by BAAF).

Okładka tylna:
Many adopted people today try to find information about their origins and search for birth family members.
Based on a large–scale research study, the authors Liz Trinder, Julia Feast and David Howe have drawn on the real–life experience of adopted people who have searched for, and had a reunion with, birth relatives. The Adoption Reunion Handbook combines comprehensive and practical step–by–step guidance and advice on:how to beginwhat to expect emotionallythe legal frameworkfinding names and addresseshow to set up a reunionmaking the reunion work long termrejection and reunion breakdownfurther help and advice.
This ′how to′ guide is essential for everyone involved, particularly those considering searching for information on their birth relatives. It will also be of use to birth parents, adoptive parents, adoption charities, social workers, psychologists and counsellors.