Open adoption and diverse families [electronic resource] : complex relationships in the digital age / Abbie E. Goldberg, Professor of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldberg, Abbie E. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Open adoption.
Adoption > Psychological aspects.
Adoptees > Family relationships.
Social media.
Online Access:
University Press Scholarship Online Complete Collection: 2019 (Oxford Academic)
Oxford Scholarship Online: 2019 (Oxford Academic)
Variant Title:
Open Adoption and Diverse Families: Complex Relationships in the Digital Age
Format: Electronic eBook
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.