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The Trauma of Relinquishment: The Long-term Impact of Relinquishment on Birthmothers who Lost their Infants to Adoption during the Years 1965-1972; Effects of Adoption on Mental Health of the Mother: What Professionals Knew and Didn't Tell Us. Still Screaming - the first major UK publication on the experiences of birth parents (Published 2001)
In Canadian maternity "homes" and hospitals, up to 100% [vague] of newborns were removed from their legal mothers after birth and placed for adoption. These newborns were taken under a Health and Welfare protocol. [22] Some professionals of the era considered that the punishment of the mother for her transgression was an important part of the ...
The book posits that there is a "primal wound" that develops when a mother and child are separated by adoption shortly after childbirth. It describes the mother and child as having a vital connected relationship which is physical, psychological and physiological, and examines the effects of disrupting such bonds.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports on a couple whose complaints have prompted a state investigation into a Utah adoption provider.
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Most adoptions in the US are adoptions by a step-parent. The second most common type is a foster care adoption. In those cases, the child is unable to live with the birth family, and the government is overseeing the care and adoption of the child. International adoptions involve the adoption of a child who was born outside the United States.
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More adoptions occur in California each year than any other state (followed closely by New York). There is domestic adoption (adopting a non-relative child from within the United States), international adoption (adopting a non-relative child from another country), step parent adoption (adopting a child who is the legal child of one's spouse) and adult adoption (the adoption of an adult from ...