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In a closed adoption, there is no contact between the biological parents and adoptive families. But fate had other ideas for Marielle and Mireille. “Our story could be a movie,” Marielle says.
Inspired by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying, the author attempts to show how those who have experienced the death of a loved one may be psychologically similar to a birth mother who has placed her child for adoption. The adoptive Families Association of British Columbia conducted a study where birth mothers completed a short ...
Roberta "Robby" DeBoer later wrote a book called Losing Jessica about the case, [6] and the DeBoers established a child group called Hear My Voice that advocated for children involved in difficult custody cases, with a pro-adoptive parent angle. [7] The DeBoers adopted a newborn boy named Casey in 1994, nine months after returning Anna. [8]
A 2004 study found that after gaining a child (whether through birth or adoption), respondents reported less depressed affect, more disagreements with their spouse, and more support from their own parents, but it appeared the experience of becoming an adoptive parent or a stepparent was less stressful than the adjustment to biological parenthood.
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 ...
A central theme is the assertion that all adoptees, even those adopted at birth, will retain memories of the separation from their birth mothers, and that regardless of the way the adoption is presented and handled by adoptive parents, these memories will have profound effects on the emotional and psychological well-being of the child and adult ...