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Suggested Reading
The Open Adoption Experience, by Lois Ruskai Melina &
Sharon Kaplan Roszia (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd
Street, New York, NY 10022, 1993). “A complete guide for adoptive and
birth families – from making the decision through the child’s growing
years.” (ISBN 0-06-096957-1)
How It Feels To Be Adopted, by Jill Krementz (Random House, Inc.,
New York, 1982). “Interviews with adopted children and adoptive families
about their experiences and feelings concerning adoption.” (ISBN
0-394-52851-4, 0-394-75853-6 (pbk.)
Real Parents, Real Children, Parenting the Adopted Child, by
Holly van Gulden & Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb (The Crossroad Publishing Co.,
370 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017, 1993). This book “goes beyond
the question of when to tell children they are adopted with practical
advice for parents on how to talk with their children about adoption –
not just once but throughout childhood, adolescence, and into young
adulthood – and how to help them through the rougher points of growing
up adopted.” (ISBN 0-8245-1368-1)
Dear Birthmother: Thank You For Our Baby, by Kathleen Silber &
Phyllis Speedlin (Corona Publishing Co., 1037 S. Alamo, San Antonio, TX
78210, 1982). Letters from birthparents, adoptive parents and children
to each other, plus a perspective on openness in adoption and the more
current view of adoption today. (ISBN 0-931722-19-5)
Being Adopted, The Lifelong Search for Self, by David M.
Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schechter, & Robin Marantz Henig (Bantam
Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1540 Broadway, New York, NY
10036, 1993). “This book is a way to share our model of normal
adjustment to being adopted as it occurs throughout the life span.” They
“examine the ups and downs of psychological adoption that can be
predicted for even the most well-adjusted of adoptees.” (ISBN
0-385-41426-9)
The Psychology of Adoption, by David M. Brodzinsky & Marshall D.
Schechter (Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York,
NY 10016, 1990) A comprehensive text to guide professionals involved in
the field of adoption with the many vicissitudes of the adopting
process. (ISBN 0-19-504892-X).
Raising Adopted Children, A Manual for Adoptive Parents, by Lois
Ruskai Melina (Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd St., New
York, NY 10022, 1986). “This book is intended as both a look at life in
the adoptive family and as an ongoing source of information – a book
parents will pick up again and again as their family progresses from
adjustment to attachment to adolescence and adulthood.”
Making Sense of Adoption, A Parent’s Guide, by Lois Ruskai Melina
(Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022,
1989). “Conversations and activities for families formed through
adoption, donor insemination, surrogacy, and in vitro fertilization.”
(ISBN 0-06-055138-0, 0-06-096319-0 (pbk.))
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). Rosenberg discusses
what adoption means for all members of the triad at every stage of life.
The book examines the ways in which the triad members’ lives interact
with and affect each other. She offers direct practical advice on
handling issues and conflicts.
Birthmothers, Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell
Their Stories, by Merry Bloch Jones (Chicago Review Press, Inc., 814
N. Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610, 1993). Stores from more than seventy
women who have relinquished a child for adoption. Various issues are
explored: discovery of pregnancy, the birth, the following months and
years, raising subsequent children, how they coped, and a range of
insight. (ISBN 1-55652-192-8)
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