Open Adoption and Diverse Families: Complex Relationships in the Digital Age

by Abbie E Goldberg and Abbie E. Goldberg

Whereas adoption was once a private affair cloaked in secrecy and sealed records, adoptions in the US today are increasingly open - that is, birth and adoptive families meet and become acquainted before the adoption, and remain in contact once it is complete. Experts agree that open adoption comes with many benefits for both birth families and adoptive families and their children, but what does it actually look like for families experiencing it, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190692030
• ISBN13: 9780190692032
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"