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Author: Kathleen Silber
Rating: Votes: 1957
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Dear Birthmother will help you carefully consider the issues involved in adoption and gain insight into the Birthmother perspective in open adoption. You'll need two copies of this moving book, one for yourself and one to give to your child's birthmother. Since its publication, many adoptive parents have used this book as a springboard for constructive communication with their children and their children's birthparents. Likewise, older adoptees have learned from this text how to engage in therapeutic communication with their birthparents, putting to rest feelings of not being good enough to merit the biological parents' attention and care while carving out a new niche in their lives for a friendly relationship with their birthparents.
This book speaks to the evolution of open adoption, what we now believe to be natural adoption. More importantly, 'Dear Birthmother' described adoption from the perspective of birthmothers, which was a critical viewpoint for us hear while we were trying to also understand the concept of openness in adoption. When prospective adoptive parents are first considering adoption, they want a 'safe' experience where they only meet the birthmother, and then she disappears. This book helps one see the range of openness that might be possible, as well as how closed adoption might feel instead. It provides specific and practical suggestions about beginning and maintaining an open adoption. It also contains actual letters written between adoptive families and birthmothers. (Paperback, 197 pages, 1998)
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