num_pages: 196
description: Fitzgerald is both a biological and adoptive mother and in this memoir examines the pros and cons of open, semi-open, and closed adoption practices from the point of view of adoptees, birthmothers, and adoptive parents. The adoption in 1969 of the authorâ€™s four-day-old daughter was closed, and Fitzgeraldâ€™s family only emerged from the dark woods of secrecy when her daughterâ€™s birthmother and extended family met up with them twenty-nine years later. This wonderful joining of the respective families has enriched everyoneâ€™s life, including that of the grandchildren. Today, Fitzgerald is passionately opposed to closed adoptions and advocates the semi-open practice.
language: English
title: Adoption: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice? Reflections by an American adoptive mother on infant adoption, birth and reunion
titlecomplete: Adoption: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice? Reflections by an American adoptive mother on infant adoption, birth and reunion
publisher: PublishAmerica