Adoption : the search for a new parenthood / Gary Diamond and Eva Arbel.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index.

Prologue -- Introduction -- Sealing one's fate -- What's obvious and what's hidden -- Inter-country adoption : how it's organized -- To be an orphan -- The orphanage -- The business of adoption -- Parents as consumers -- "That's the child!" -- When to reveal the truth -- Fears -- Love and prejudice -- The body doesn't lie -- Choice and control in the adoption process -- Magdalena's performance -- The child of our dreams -- Until the phone rang -- The power of faith -- Families of another type -- "Ghosts in the nursery" -- Georgia on my mind -- A child from a good home -- Pages from a social worker's notebook: working with adoptive families -- Jared -- The adoption story -- "So where is your mummy?" -- "They say Judy resembles her mom and dad" -- "We first laid eyes on you and loved you immediately" -- "I unavoidably gave up the baby" -- Johnny writes home to his folks -- The princess and the frog -- Like grandmother, like mother -- Choices -- Family day -- Only three weeks -- Caught between two worlds.

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Gary Diamond, an American-trained developmental pediatrician, has along with professional colleagues over the past 15 years counseled and traveled to orphanages around the world in the service of adoptive parents, interested in evaluating the child pre-adoption in his/her native setting, often being in foster care or orphanages in a variety of countries in Eastern Europe and Central America. The book is a collection of 25 true accounts of adoption, post adoption and adolescent and adult experiences with adoption, and presents a unique chronicle of the life cycle of the adoptive family and the.

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