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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 Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child is a book by American author Nancy Verrier published in 1993. [1] 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 ...
Garza's adoption agencies—first Heart and Soul, and more recently Love and Light—have a problematic history, beginning as early as 2008, when one of her clients' had their adoption overturned ...
The first adoption study on schizophrenia published in 1966 by Leonard Heston demonstrated that the biological children of parents with schizophrenia were just as likely to develop schizophrenia whether they were reared by their parents or adopted [5] and was essential in establishing schizophrenia as being largely genetic instead of being a result of child rearing methods.
In Hindu society, for example, it is relatively common for a childless couple to adopt the second or later son of the husband's brother when the childless couple has limited hope of producing their own child. In an open adoption, the adoptive parents hold all the rights as the legal parents, yet the individuals of the biological and adoptive ...
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A maternal bond is the relationship between a biological mother/caregiver and her child or baby. While typically associated with pregnancy and childbirth, a maternal bond may also develop in cases later on in life where the child is unrelated, such as in the case of an adoptee or a case of blended family. Both physical and emotional factors ...
Nov. 8—November is National Adoption Month. Children from across the state of Alabama are in need of caring families to adopt them. The Alabama Department of Human Resources says about adoption ...