Blending photos and adoption stories with current adoption literature, Carol highlights the benefits of open adoption, the right of adoptees to know their origins, and the right of gays and lesbians to adopt. This book lends support for better adoption practices and adoption legislation in the future. It is about people inside the adoption circle who express generous love for each other in unique ways.
When adoptee Carol Shipley met her birth mother after half a century of longing to know her origins, the two parts to her story - before adoption placement and after - finally came together. Love, Loss, and Longing: Stories of Adoption chronicles her own healing story of search and reunion as well as the story of her adoptive daughter whose moving reunion with her birth family freed her to embrace her aboriginal heritage. She recounts heart-wrenching and life-giving stories of birth mothers who love and let go of their children into adoption. The stories of the journey of infertile couples towards adoptive parenthood reveal tenacity and hope that overpowers despair.
Blending photos and adoption stories with current adoption literature, Carol highlights the benefits of open adoption, the right of adoptees to know their origins, and the right of gays and lesbians to adopt. This book lends support for better adoption practices and adoption legislation in the future. It is about people inside the adoption circle who express generous love for each other in unique ways. Comments are closed.
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AuthorCarol Bowyer Shipley brings a unique perspective to the world of adoption as an adoptee, an adoptive mother and an adoption professional. As adoption practitioner and birth parent counsellor, she worked for 25 years in the private adoption system and public child welfare agencies in Ontario with adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents. Recently retired, she lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband, Ken. Her four children, their spouses, and seven grandchildren constantly enrich her life. This is the updated edition of her first book, published in 2013. Archives
July 2016
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