Infertility and Adoption

Please find some of our best articles, essays and reviews on this topic.

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There are a range of losses associated with infertility — the loss of control over many intimate and practical aspects of our lives; the loss of genetic connection and lineage; the loss of the opportunity to create a new person with our life’s partner; and the loss of emotional and physical expectations we have about being pregnant. Parents who haven’t dealt with their own infertility and adoption-related losses will find it difficult to help their children learn to deal with their adoption losses.

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• A Biblical View of Adoption
  by Chené Tucker, MSW, LCSW (1994 | 107 KB | )
  
• About Concerned United Birthparents
  by Bonnie Bis (1998 | 116 KB | )
  
• Adoption Reversals
  by Michael Trout (1998 | 98 KB | )
  
• Arrival Adjustment: The Post-Adoption Blues
  by Patricia Irwin Johnston (2008 | 326 KB | )
  
• Bonding and Attachment: How Does Adoption Affect a Newborn?
  by Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall (1998 | 406 KB | )
  
• Book Review: Post Adoption Blues
  by Karen Foli & John Thompson (2007 | 95 KB | )
  
• Director’s Corner: Adoptive Breastfeeding - Pact’s Point of View
  by Beth Hall, Molly Brannigan & Martha Rynberg (2011 | 487 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: While You Wait -- A Chance to Learn & Grow
  by Pact (2010 | 1,011 KB | )
  
• Feelings of Differentness
  by Jean Benward (1994 | 106 KB | )
  
• Four Lifelong Issues in Adoption
  by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg (2007 | 116 KB | )
  
• Infertility and Aftershocks
  by Patricia Irwin Johnston (1998 | 336 KB | )
  
• My Dog Story
  by Penny Callan Partridge (1997 | 301 KB | )
  
• Still Parenting After All These Years
  by Gail Steinberg (1992 | 96 KB | )
  
• Talking to Children about Sex and Adoption: An Interview with Anne Bernstein
  Interviewed by Beth Hall (1995 | 337 KB | )
  
• Teen Corner: Making Sense of Living Transracially
  by Ryo and Jake (2010 | 53 KB | )
  
• The Best Support
  by Carol Schaefer (1992 | 313 KB | )
  
• The Genogram
  by Eve Nicol (1996 | 95 KB | )
  
• The Real Daughter
  by Colleen Houlihan  (1994 | 106 KB | )
  
• Twice a Mother - Unexpected Paths
  by Rachel Angeline (1997 | 109 KB | )
  
• What, me worry? or How I Learned to Embrace My Inner Worrier
  by Robin Lisa Sewell (2006 | 97 KB | )
  

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