The Adoption Read Author:Susan Wadia-Ells With eloquence and conviction, more than thirty birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adopted daughters explore what a deeply emotional, sometimes controversial and always compelling experience that affects millions of families and individuals. — These personal essays and stories are informed by the contemporary adoption movement and raise time iss... more »ues that illustrate its complexity, among them: open and closed adoptions, cross-cultural adoption, the birth record debate, the experience of biracial adoptees, adoption by lesiban couples and the search for identity.
Featuring work of well-known writers and activists, The Adoption Reader is a helpful, hopeful and vital collection about growth and self-understanding and a must-read book for anyone who had been touched by the adoption experience.« less