Open adoption and diverse families complex relationships in the digital age

Getting to adoption: the path before the path -- Orienting to open adoption, considering contact, and reflecting on race : pre-adoption perspectives and preferences -- "Meeting the reality of our situation" : placement experiences and circumstances and post-placement openness and contact -...

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1. Verfasser: Goldberg, Abbie E. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Getting to adoption: the path before the path -- Orienting to open adoption, considering contact, and reflecting on race : pre-adoption perspectives and preferences -- "Meeting the reality of our situation" : placement experiences and circumstances and post-placement openness and contact -- Imagining and enacting birth family contact over time : trajectories of openness among private domestic adopters -- Navigating openness and contact in child welfare adoptions -- Adoption talk : communicative openness throughout childhood -- Weaving a family narrative : genetics talk -- Facebook as facilitator or foe: boundaries and birth family relationships on social media and beyond -- Absence and ambivalence : how birth fathers fit into adoption stories -- Summing up : practical strategies and applications for families -- Appendix a -- Appendix b -- References -- Index.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:ix, 444 Seiten
ISBN:9780190692032
978-0-19-069203-2