The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families - from Making the Decision through the Child's Growing Years

A growing number of adoptions involve birth and adoptive parents who are not related, but have contact with each other. This is called open adoption. This fragile relationship is charcterized by strong emotions and a mutual concern for the child. This is a guide to the issues and concerns of adoptive and birth families through all stages of the open adoption relationship. It helps all involved to understand, negotiate and nurture their relationship as it grows and changes. It also provides a complete discussion of all the stages in the relationship - from the initial preparation for open adoption to placement and the adjustments of the first year, through the challenges of adolescence. Lois Ruskai Melina is the author of Raising Adopted Children and Making Sense of Adoption. Sharon Kaplan Roszia is the co-author of Co-operative Adoption: A Handbook.

About Lois Ruskai Melina