Children of Open Adoption and Their Families - Softcover

Silber, Kathleen; Dorner, Patricia Martinez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931722780 ISBN 13: 9780931722783

Publisher: Corona Pub Co, 1990

Synopsis

Explains the concept of open adoption, examines its effect on adopted children, and discusses the long-term benefits

About this title

About the Author:

Kathleen Silber was born and reared in Stockton, California, graduated from the University of California at Davis and received her Master's degree in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley. She is nationally known for her pioneering work in open adoption. Kathleen and her husband and two children live in California, where she is Associate Executive Director of the Independent Adoption Center in Pleasant Hill.

Patricia M. Dorner has been a vocal proponent of open adoption as well as search and reunion. She graduated from McGill University and received her Master's degree in Counseling from San Francisco State University. Living in San Antonio with her family, she has an adoption-focused private practice incorporating counseling, searching, training and education.

From Publishers Weekly:

Silber and Dorner, who have developed and implemented open adoption policies in Texas, here define this unconventional practice as one that "includes the birthparents and adoptive parents meeting one another, sharing full identifying information, and having access to ongoing contact over the years"; they further advocate that the biological parents be considered extended family, like other relatives of the adoptive family. On these terms, suggests this balanced evaluation, adoptees can be spared much of the anguish afflicting those for whom the circumstances of birth remain unknown; birth parents can better cope with their grief and accept their own choice; adoptive parents will almost always be reassured, both because they feel "accepted" by the birth parents and because they better realize that the birth parents will not reverse their decision. Case studies, including letters by involved parties, bolster the authors' practical guidelines as well as their astute analysis of the complex emotions surrounding adoption.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corona Pub Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0931722780
• ISBN 13: 9780931722783
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 193