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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 ...
A biological mother may have legal obligations to a child not raised by her, such as an obligation of monetary support. An adoptive mother is a female who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption. A putative mother is a female whose biological relationship to a child is alleged but has not been established.
Adoption in France – Adoption in France is codified in the French Civil Code in two distinct forms: simple adoption and plenary adoption. Adoption in Guatemala – From 1996 to 2007, Guatemala was one of the major providers for children for international adoption, peaking at 5,577 children adopted in 2007. Since reforms in 2007–8, aimed at ...
From 1945 to 1973, it is estimated that up to 4 million parents in the United States had children placed for adoption, with 2 million during the 1960s alone. [2] Annual numbers for non-relative adoptions increased from an estimated 33,800 in 1951 to a peak of 89,200 in 1970, then quickly declined to an estimated 47,700 in 1975.
Adoption studies typically compare pairs of persons, e.g., adopted child and adoptive mother or adopted child and biological mother, to assess genetic and environmental influences on behavior. [1] These studies are one of the classic research methods of behavioral genetics.
Although the effect of loss of the mother on the developing child had been considered earlier by Freud and other theorists, Bowlby's work on delinquent and affectionless children and the effects of hospital and institutional care led to his being commissioned to write the World Health Organization's report on the mental health of homeless ...