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Lost & found : the adoption experience / Betty Jean Lifton.

by Lifton, Betty Jean.

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University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Adopted children.

Adopted children -- Family relationships.

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3rd ed., expanded and updated.

xii, 330 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index.

Preface: Adoptee with a Capital A -- Pt. 1. Lost -- 1. On Being Adopted -- 2. Messages from the Underground -- 3. The Adoption Game -- 4. The Chosen Baby -- 5. The Adoptee as Mythic Hero -- 6. The Adoptee as Double -- 7. The Adoptee as Survivor -- 8. Adolescent Baggage -- 9. Good Adoptee-Bad Adoptee -- 10. The Adoptee as Adult -- Pt. 2. Found -- 11. Waking Up from the Great Sleep -- 12. Who Searches? -- 13. The Decision to Search -- 14. Stages of the Search -- 15. Varieties of Reunion Experience -- 16. The Journey after Reunion -- 17. Father-The Mini-Search -- 18. Siblings -- 19. The Unsuspecting Spouse -- 20. Aftermath: The Restless Pulse -- Pt. 3. Roots and Wings -- 21. Taking Wing -- 22. Telling the Adoptive Parents -- 23. The Chosen Parents -- 24. Telling the Child -- 25. Birth Mothers-Are They Baby Machines? -- 26. Birth Mothers Who Search -- 27. Adoptive Parents - Are They Baby-Sitters? -- 28. The Right to Know -- Rights and Responsibilities for Everyone in the Adoption Circle -- The Adoption Resource Network.

"The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton's Lost and Found advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states' policies of maintaining closed birth records. For nearly three decades the book has topped recommended reading lists for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption - including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families." "This expanded and updated edition, with new material on the controversies concerning adoption, artificial insemination, and newer reproductive technologies, continues to add to the discussion on this important topic. A new preface and afterword by the author have been added, as well as a greatly expanded resources section that in addition to relevant organizations now lists useful Web sites."--BOOK JACKET.

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