Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections

by Ruth G. McRoy and Harold D. Grotevant

Book Overview

Harold Grotevant and Ruth McRoy provide a thorough review of the issues involved in openness in adoption and a clear description of the methods and results of the landmark research project they led. They provide rich data from an exceptional sample of adoptees, their adoptive parents and their birth mothers, and provide a perspective of their experiences as triangular families′ which openness generates. The last chapter reaches some general...

• 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.