Titles of Interest to Prospective Adoptive Parents

Adopted Child. A Newsletter. Lois Melina, ed. P.O. Box 9632, Moscow, ID 83843.

Gritter, James. Adoption Without Fear. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1989.

Melina, Lois R. Making Sense of Adoption. New York: Solstice Press/Harper & Row, 1989.

Through sample conversations and age-specific activities, national expert, Lois Melina, offers practical help on how to talk to children about adoption.

Melina, Lois R. Raising Adopted Children. New York: Solstice Press/Harper & Row, 1986.

Silber, Kathleen, and Patricia Dorner. Children of Open Adoption. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1990.

Two pioneers in the field of open adoption present important evidence that begins to answer how children are doing in open adoption. The book examines numbers of actual adoption experiences and follows children from infancy through the teen years.

Silber, Kathleen, and Phyllis Speedlin. Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby, 2nd ed. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1991.

Using actual correspondence between birth parents and adoptive parents, this book debunks the myth that birth parents do not care about their children and do not think about them later.

Warren, Lindsay Jeanne. Open Adoption: A Caring Option. Buena Park, Ca: Morning Glory Press, 1987.

Titles of Interest to Adoptees

Brodzinsky, David M., Marshall D. Schechter, and Robin Marantz Henig. Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Demuth, Carol L. Courageous Blessing: Adoptive Parents & the Search. Garland, Tx: Aries Center, 1993.

Ehrlich, Henry, ed. A Time to Search. New York: Paddington Press, 1977.

Gediman, Judith S., and Linda P. Brown. Birthbond: Reunions Between Birthparents and Adoptees. Far Hills, N.J.: New Horizon Press, 1989.

Kirk, H. David. Adoptive Kinship. Toronto: Butterworth & co., 1981

Kirk, H. David. Shared Fate: A Theory of Adoption and Mental Health. New York: The Free Press, 1964.

Lifton, Betty Jean. Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.

McColm, Michelle. Adoption Reunions: A Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Adoptive Families. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1993.

Sorosky, Arthur, Annette Baran, and Reuben Pannor. The Adoption Triangle, rev. ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1984.

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