Suggested Reading
- Families often find their open adoption family relationships so worthwhile, they want more openness. A national study of 360 open adoption families, including Open Adoption & Family Services (OA&FS) families who participated in the survey, found that over time, adoptive parents, birthparents and adoptees all tend to wish for more openness in their adoption. Learn more in The Birthparent Perspective, a special report from the September/October 2008 issue of Adoptive Families Magazine.
- Being a Birthparent: Finding Our Place, Brenda Romanchik, R-Squared Press, 1999.
- Birthparent Grief, Brenda Romanchik, R-Squared Press, 1999
Helps birthparents define the loss and understand the grieving process. Not only for birthparents, this is a great book for anyone who wants to help a birthparent through a very difficult time. - Dear Birthmother, Kathleen Silber and Phylis Speedlin, Corona Publishing, 1997.
An open adoption classic. Gently provocative, warm and convincing, this guide includes actual letters between adoptive parents and birthparents, and between the latter and the children they have. - The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses, John W. James and Russel Friedman. Harper Collins, 1998.
- Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories, Mary Martin Mason. O.J. Howard, 1995.
Through stories and photos examines the thoughts, feelings and motives of birthfathers. - Pregnant? Adoption is an Option, Jeanne Warren Lindsay, Morning Glory Press, 1996
- The Third Choice: A Woman's Guide to Placing a Child for Adoption, Leslie Foge and Gail Mosconi. Third Choice Books, http://www.thirdchoicebooks.com, 1999.
- Your Rights and Responsibilities: A Guide for Expectant Parents Considering Adoption, Brenda Romanchik. R-Squared Press, 1999
