The Adoption Experience

by L. Steven Nickman, Steven Nickman

Presents various aspects of adoption including interracial adoption, searching for birth parents, and giving up a child for adoption. Also discusses the feelings of the participants, the provisions of the law, possible problems and their solutions, and ways in which adopted people are different or alike from those that are not adopted.Seven stories illustrate how some adoptees have handled the problems of emotional doubt, acceptance, and old family ties in such diverse situations as trans-racial, foreign, and older child adoptions

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1985