The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide
"The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide"
by Julie Jarrell Bailey and Lynn N. Giddens, M.A.
| Pros | • Great "how tos"
• "Reunion Aerobics"
• Good definitions of terms |
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| Cons | • No information for international searches |
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The Bottom Line - A valuable tool for those working through search toward reunion, or in the throes of a challenging reunion relationship.
| Product Description |
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| • | Published by New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2001 |
| • | ISBN 1572242280 |
| • | Paperback, 150 pages |
Step by Step The authors have made excellent use of their broad experience to walk adoptees and birth parents through the reunion process. The book includes information about the drive to search, the importance and "how-tos" of creating one's own support system, the distinction between "open records" activism and "reunion," a listing of each state's available method of contact, help organizations, and other resources.
Bailey, a reunited birth mother and adoptive mother of three special needs children, and Giddens, a reunited adoptee, are co-founders of the North Carolina Center for Adoption Education. They combine personal stories with common sense strategies to help the reader prepare, practically and emotionally, for meeting their biological relation.
The book is an excellent choice for
all connected to adoption as it provides the tools for each of us to evaluate our feelings about adoption and any expectations we may have of those who make up our families.
If you buy only one book to explore the reunion process, do consider "The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide." You won't be disappointed.
© Nancy S Ashe
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