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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)
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.
Post-adoption depression effects often has a significant impact on mother or fathers parenting. This can lead to behavioural problems in the child, significantly due to the lack of attention the infant received, especially when compared to a child to the attentiveness of a mother with more stable mental health.
But after my mother’s death in 2005, my dad and I became best friends. Not a day went by without us talking, though the calls were rarely longer than two minutes — just enough time to check in ...
It has revocation laws that give a birth mother limited time to change her mind about going forward with an adoption, Mitchell said, but once the paperwork is signed, the decision is final.
Two Pennsylvania men who spent more than a decade as adopted father and son in the eyes of the law have dissolved that relationship in order to marry. Norman MacArthur and Bill Novak have been in ...
Adopted child syndrome is a term that has been used to explain behaviors in adopted children that are claimed to be related to their adoptive status. Specifically, these include problems in bonding, attachment disorders, lying, stealing, defiance of authority, and acts of violence.
It was an emotional day for 62-year-old Candy Wagner, who after decades of searching, found the daughter she had given up for adoption. Wagner gave birth when she was just 14-years-old, staying at ...