An Open Adoption In Stock Now

This is a true story of an open adoption in which the biological and adoptive parents meet and approve of each other before their baby's birth. In this fascinating account, we meet a young, unmarried college student who, after reviewing the letters of several couples describing themselves and the reasons they want to adopt, chooses the people who are to become the parents of her child. The complex bond formed by the biological and adoptive parents is movingly described-a relationship whose emotions range from exhilaration and intimacy to those of betrayal. A superb and evenhanded look at one of the most emotionally fraught of all human transactions, this book is supplemented by a history of the fierce controversies surrounding adoption practices and provides extraordinary insight into the questions and issues faced by every adoptive parent, birth parent, and adoptee.