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Intended for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption - including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families, this title includes material on the controversies concerning adoption and reproductive technologies.

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Looks at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents.... A provocative, comprehensive inquiry. - Kirkus Reviews ""Important and powerful.... [the author] is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents."" - Psychology Today ""An articulate and convincing account of people Lifton has interviewed, men and women who feel crippled by not knowing who their parents were. Included are reports on dealers in black-market babies and equally disturbing information on supposedly reputable adoption agencies."" - Publishers Weekly

Lost and Found The Adoption Experience

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    A Paperback by Betty Jean Lifton Phd


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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 1/6/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472033287, 978-0472033287
      ISBN10: 047203328X
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      Adoption and fostering

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Intended for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption - including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families, this title includes material on the controversies concerning adoption and reproductive technologies.

      Trade Review
      Looks at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents.... A provocative, comprehensive inquiry. - Kirkus Reviews ""Important and powerful.... [the author] is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents."" - Psychology Today ""An articulate and convincing account of people Lifton has interviewed, men and women who feel crippled by not knowing who their parents were. Included are reports on dealers in black-market babies and equally disturbing information on supposedly reputable adoption agencies."" - Publishers Weekly

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