Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections

by Ruth G. McRoy and Harold D. Grotevant

Book Overview

Since the mid-1970s, adoption practices in the United States have changed dramatically, and the confidentiality maintained in the past is no longer the norm. The trend is toward openness in adoption in which either mediated (through an adoption agency) or direct contact occurs between the adoptive family and birth parent(s). Some adoption professionals argue that openness is harmful and experimental while others argue that the secrecy of confidential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803957793
• ISBN13: 9780803957794
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Hard facts about the effects of OA

Finally, open adoption gets its due in this comprehensive study of its effects on all triad members. The research seems to prove that more openness is better; and that adoptees who have ongoing relationships with their birthfamilies have stronger, better bonds with their adoptive families, too. This isn't easy reading--as the results of a research study, it's written in academic style--but it should still be required reading for all prospective adoptive parents.