The adoption reader
Subtitle: birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and adopted daughters tell their stories
By: edited by Susan Wadia-Ells ; [with Nancy Mairs ... [et al.].
Contributors: Wadia-Ells, Susan.
Publisher: Seal Press; Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Seattle, Wash; [Emeryville, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Adoption -- United States -- Case studies.; Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Case studies.; Adoptive parents -- United States -- Case studies.; Adoptees -- United States -- Case studies.; Birthmothers -- United States -- Case studies.
Description: These personal essays and stories are informed by the contemporary adoption movement and raise timely issues that illustrate its complexity, among them: open and closed adoption, cross-cultural adoption, the birth record debate, the experience of biracial adoptees, adoption by lesbian couples, and the search for identity.

Featuring the work of well-known writers and activists, The Adoption Reader is a helpful, hopeful and vital collection about growth and self-understanding and a must-read book for anyone who has been touched by the adoption experience.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274).