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Lost and found : the adoption experience / Betty Jean Lifton.
LIBRA HV875.55 .L54 1988
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Van Pelt Library HV875.55 .L54 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lifton, Betty Jean.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--United States.
- Adoption.
- Adopted children.
- United States.
- Adopted children--United States.
- Adopted children--Family relationships--United States.
- Adopted children--Family relationships.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 321 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial Library edition, updated edition with a new afterword.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Library, [1988]
- Summary:
- Rich in insight and compassion, 'Lost and Found' is an eloquent exploration of the psychological issues faced by adoptees and by all children who have been separated from a parent and denied the right to know their true origins. Betty Jean Lifton, herself an adoptee, draws upon her own experience and her extensive work with adoptees, birth mothers and fathers, and adoptive parents to explore the harmful effects of secrecy on the identity of a child and the liberating possibilities of openness.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1979.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 305-314.
- ISBN:
- 0060971320 :
- OCLC:
- 17108032
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