Shared Fate: A Theory of Adoption and Mental Health |
Contents
ONE Adoptive Relations in the Making | 1 |
Two The Pervading Environment | 16 |
THREE Dilemmas of Adoptive Parenthood | 36 |
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1956 mail questionnaire accept acknowledgment-of-difference actors adop adopted child adopted children Adopted Children's Association Adoption Research Project adoptive couples adoptive family adoptive mother adoptive parenthood adoptive parents adoptive relations agency answer asked attitudes baby behavior biological parents birth born cent chapter child's background childlessness clients communication Coping Activity couple's cues cultural script DAVID KIRK deprivation differential sex preference dilemma Empathy Emphasis added ence experience fact father fecundity feel female sex preference Gloria Vanderbilt goal Guttman Scale husbands illegitimacy indicated Jewish less logical family marriage McGill McGill University means ment minority group natural parents nonfecund couples norms orientation original parents parental role patterns person prescription problem question rejection-of-difference relatively reported respondents role handicap satisfactions sense sentiments sexual ethic social suggest Table tell theory of adoptive tion tive parents traditional understand wedlock Whittier Whittier College wife women