| Contents |
Getting to adoption: the path before the path -- Orienting to open adoption, considering contact, and reflecting on race : pre-adoption perspectives and preferences -- "Meeting the reality of our situation" : placement experiences and circumstances and post-placement openness and contact -- Imagining and enacting birth family contact over time : trajectories of openness among private domestic adopters -- Navigating openness and contact in child welfare adoptions -- Adoption talk : communicative openness throughout childhood -- Weaving a family narrative : genetics talk -- Facebook as facilitator or foe: boundaries and birth family relationships on social media and beyond -- Absence and ambivalence : how birth fathers fit into adoption stories -- Summing up : practical strategies and applications for families -- Appendix a -- Appendix b -- References -- Index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019004982 |
| ISBN | 9780190692032 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780190692049 (updf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
