Harold Grotevant and Ruth McRoy provide a thorough review of the issues involved in openness in adoption and a clear description of the methods and results of the landmark research project they led. They provide rich data from an exceptional sample of adoptees, their adoptive parents and their birth mothers, and provide a perspective of their experiences as `triangular families' which openness generates. The last chapter reaches some general conclusions and discusses implications for future adoption practice.
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"Grotevant and McRoy’s Openness in Adoption is an excellent example of a well-designed, focused, thoughtful piece of research carried out in a field that is complex and controversial."
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Finally, open adoption gets its due in this comprehensive study of its effects on all triad members. The research seems to prove that more openness is better; and that adoptees who have ongoing relationships with their birthfamilies have stronger, better bonds with their adoptive families, too. This isn't easy reading--as the results of a research study, it's written in academic style--but it should still be required reading for all prospective adoptive parents.
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Since the mid-1970s, adoption practices in North America and western Europe have changed dramatically, and the confidentiality maintained in the past is no longer the norm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, African American, North America, Poor Emotional Control, Twenty Statements Test, Uniform Adoption Act, Child Adaptive Behavior Inventory, Native American, Perceived Impact of First Meeting New!
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Since the mid-1970s, adoption practices in North America and western Europe have changed dramatically, and the confidentiality maintained in the past is no longer the norm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, African American, North America, Poor Emotional Control, Twenty Statements Test, Uniform Adoption Act, Child Adaptive Behavior Inventory, Native American, Perceived Impact of First Meeting New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Openness in Adoption: New Practices, New Issues by Ruth G. McRoy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Family Assessment: A Guide to Methods and Measures by Grotevant/Carlson. in Back Matter
- Social Psychology With Student Social Connection CD ROM by David Myers in Back Matter
- Social Psychology by Ronald J. Fisher in Back Matter
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- Enhancing the Well-Being of Children and Families Through Effective Interventions: International Evidence for Practice by Colette McAuley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Adopting Maternity: White Women Who Adopt Transracially or Transnationally by Nora Moosnick on page 147, and Back Matter
- Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past by Betsy Keefer on page 179, and Back Matter
- Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption by Barbara Melosh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Legal & Ethical Perspec by Eric Blyth on page 166
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