Introduction
Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe |
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| I. Reflections on Birth Parents |
| Christina Frank |
She is Among Us |
| Pamela Kruger |
To Search or Not to Search… |
| Dan Savage |
Living With a Very Open Adoption |
| Laura Shaine Cunningham |
Two Daughters, Two Destinies |
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| II. Encounters With the Unexpected |
| Melissa Fay Greene |
Post-Adoption Panic |
| Sheila Stainback |
Baby on Board—But Not Everyone Else |
| Amy Rackear |
The Second Time Around |
| Jill Smolowe |
Color Her Becky: Grappling with Race |
| Jana Wolff |
The First Thirteen |
| Bonnie Miller Rubin |
The Fall-Out from a Less-than-Perfect Beginning |
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| III. Variations on Family |
| Jacquelyn Mitchard |
Which Ones are Yours? |
| Jesse Green |
The Day That Hallmark Forgot |
| Marcelle Clements |
Standing Out and Standing Up in the Crowd |
| Antoinette Martin |
Divorce, Adoption Style |
| Bob Shacochis |
Keeping it All in the Family |
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| IV. Personal Transformations |
| Joe Treen |
Reluctant No More (Not That I Ever Was) |
| Emily Prager |
Across Two Cultures |
| Doug Hood |
The Orphan Myth |
| Adam Pertman |
And Then Everything Changed |
| Jenifer Levin |
Special Needs |
Copyright 2005 by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe |
