The Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and Their Families through the Years

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Adoption is once again the subject of intense controversy. Some groups call for the abolition of adoption altogether as an outmoded social institution that fails to meet the needs of any of the members involved, while others propose major changes in our social and legal systems. Yet few reformers have been able to reach a consensus, or to provide concrete solutions to the problems they describe. In this first book to take into account all the new issues surrounding the adoption debate, Elisor Rosenberg throws ...
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Overview

Adoption is once again the subject of intense controversy. Some groups call for the abolition of adoption altogether as an outmoded social institution that fails to meet the needs of any of the members involved, while others propose major changes in our social and legal systems. Yet few reformers have been able to reach a consensus, or to provide concrete solutions to the problems they describe. In this first book to take into account all the new issues surrounding the adoption debate, Elisor Rosenberg throws light on what adoption means for all three members of the triad - adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents - at every stage of life. Drawing on extensive case examples, she examines the ways in which the triad members' lives interact with and affect each other in the course of their lifetimes, and offers direct, practical advice on handling the issues and conflicts that often arise. The continued mourning of birth parents, the difficult behavior of a child who tests the bounds of an adoptive parent's love and acceptance, and the numerous developmental hurdles of adoptive parents are just some of the issues which Rosenberg addresses. A section on the clinical implications of adoption, illuminated with case studies, will be especially helpful for therapists and social workers who encounter adoption circle members in their practices. Also useful will be the outline of developmental tasks for each member of the triad. This outline will help those in the adoption circle, as well as professionals, to understand better both the problems encountered in the past and the challenges that lie ahead. The institution of adoption is still a fine solution to a significant social problem, the author concludes, when we view it from the perspective of a lifetime. To be successful, the author argues, the adoption of children must be administered and undertaken with a realistic sense of the ways this experience is at once similar to and profoundly different from the non-a

Adoption has become the subject of intense controversy, yet few reformers have been able to reach a consensus. In this first book to take into account all the issues surrounding the adoption debate, Rosenberg throws new light on what adoption means for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents at every stage of life.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Many of the growing number of books about adoption are essentially how-tos, guiding prospective adoptive parents through the emotional and legal thickets adoption requires. Rosenberg, a family therapist and professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, has written a more unusual work: a careful, scholarly examination of the psychological relationships involved in the strange three-way partnership of child, birth parents and adoptive parents. Each party, she points out, has its own set of priorities and anxieties, and she addresses these with imagination and empathy (she might have included more case studies, however, in order to enliven and humanize her work). Rosenberg also illuminates changing social attitudes toward adoption, from secretiveness to cheery optimism to the current state of anxiety about being completely fair to all parties--an impossibility given the highly conflicted nature of the process itself. She thoughtfully raises many seldom-aired questions with insight and candor. (Aug.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780029270554
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1992
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 209
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.58 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 The Myth of the Perfect Solution 1
2 To Have but Not to Hold: Developmental Tasks of Birth Parents 17
3 Becoming Parents: Developmental Tasks of Adoptive Mothers and Fathers 49
4 Growing Up Adopted: Developmental Tasks of Adoptees 89
5 Shared Lives: The Interrelationship of Developmental Tasks of Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Adoptees 123
6 When Help Is Needed: Implications for Clinical Interventions 145
7 Surrounding the Adoption Circle: Implications for Social and Legal Practice 167
Afterword 187
Appendix A. Developmental Tasks of Birth Parents 189
Appendix B. Developmental Tasks of Adoptive Parents 191
Appendix C. Developmental Tasks of Adoptees 195
Notes 199
Index 205
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