Introduction: From Telling to Sharing: Changes in Adoption Practice
p. 1
Adoption and the World of the Parent
p. 11
Adoption Research
p. 25
Adoption and the World of the Young Child
p. 57
Stories of Parents and Children Talking Together about Adoption
p. 94
Teddy and Anna
p. 95
Teddy: I don't want [my birthfather] to find me. He'd take me away. He'd change his mind.
Anna: You know, [in adoption] somebody wins and somebody loses.
Laura and Maya
p. 101
Laura: Mommy, you're not really really my mommy, are you?
Maya: Let's call [my birthmom] Forsythia.
Jeff and Melissa
p. 123
Jeff: Why didn't my real mom want me? ... I think she didn't like me.
Melissa: I was always wanted. My parents who adopted me wanted me even before I was born.
Ian and Elizabeth
p. 130
Ian: How fast did you go, Mommy, to get me in the car?
Elizabeth: Then I was in Daddy's tummy!
Mehera
p. 145
Mehera: Adopting means you love a baby very much and go find her.
Kathy and Aaron
p. 152
Kathy: Who is right, Mom, my birthmom or Jane [who will keeps her baby]?
Aaron: It's okay, Mom. You have me now.
Daniel Joo Bin: Family Lost and Found
p. 157
Daniel: You're Oma. That means "Mother" in Korean.
Virginia and Jonathan
p. 162
Virginia: Mom, why would a lady who grew a baby give the baby away?
Jonathan: I so sad I didn't grow in your uterus, Mommy.
Nora
p. 172
Nora: Some kids have lots of mothers.
Max and Lani: Twins in an Open Adoption
p. 178
Max: Okay, Sis, first I'll marry our friend; then I'll marry you, and one can be the birthmom and one can be the adopted mom.
Lani: I wish I had been in your womb.
Paul and Steven
p. 184
Paul: Joey is lucky because his mom is three things - his mom, his birthmother, and his teacher. Why can't you be three things?
Steven: When will I ever see my sister again?
Margaret and William: Adoption as "No Big Deal"
p. 203
A Birth and Adoptive Father
p. 207
Richard: Where the kid came from seems sort of bookish, abstract.
Afterword
p. 217
Appendix A: Two Families Who Decided Not to Talk with Their Young Children about Adoption
p. 221
Eric: One-Time Telling
p. 221
Jeremy and Chloe: Deciding to Postpone Telling until Latency
p. 222
Appendix B: Adoptive Comments, Questions, and Play Sequences of Adopted Children in the Stories, Arranged by Age
p. 225
References
p. 243
Index
p. 253
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