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"This book is a 'must read' for                   
 every mother who lost her
                        precious infant to adoption."

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"Adoption Healing
is a testament to the terrible and long-lasting injustice that was done to so many women in our recent past, when 'authorities' snatched their babies and told these mothers that they would forget.  Buterbaugh and Soll have crafted a deeply caring book that reaches out to mothers who will never forget." - Rickie Solinger,  author of Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade, and Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the U.S



  "Adoption Healing needs to carry a warning: 'Beware!  Read at your own risk.  Long-buried feelings are bound to surface.  Not advisable to read without  support.'   Adoption healing is not for the fainthearted.  Some will say it's radical, and it is.   But it is the very radicalness that leads you to your own truth -- to the place of healing." - Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother and Mary Queen of Scots; playwright of The Sacred Virgin


     “As an adoption reform activist, I found Adoption Healing to be the most straightforward and honest book I have ever read.  The authors presentation of the material explains the myths and facts of the exiled mother’s experience in a most clear and  concise  manner.  Adoption  Healing is one of  those  very  special  books  that is difficult to put down!” -   Sandy Musser, Adoption  Activist  and  Author of I Would  Have Searched Forever & To Prison With Love



    "This book is a 'must read' for every mother who lost her precious infant to adoption.  It is the wake-up call for mothers who have 'sleep-walked' through their lives from the moment their babies were taken for adoption and given to 'worthier' people.  It will lead her safely through the quagmire of painful, suppressed memory, out of the darkness of denied love, of exile, into the light of a life fully lived. 

    It is essential reading for therapists.  It will equip them to assist mothers into recovery and beyond.  It provides therapeutic possibilities for mothers, and educational possibilities for therapists, to help both understand the depth of the life-long dysfunction in mothers following adoption.  There is a long and painful recovery ahead for every mother.  This book will help therapists to understand….how deep the trauma goes.  This book validates the mother's adoption loss and deals with her wounds.

    Out of the lies surrounding adoption, comes this truth.  How terrible it is to lose a child. No one who reads this book will be able to view adoption as a viable 'solution' to unplanned pregnancy, ever again.  This book shows the mother of adoption loss how to deal with the pain and how to reclaim her motherhood and her humanity.  It will lead her safely home to herself."  - Joss Shawyer, author of Death by Adoption


  April 4, 2006
Required Reading For All Mother to Be
Reviewer: Ronna 
"This should be required/recommended reading for every single mother to be and every mother that has already gone through an incomparable loss through adoption-  Let this book be a shocking but eye opening educational instrument for mothers contemplating adoption for their infants or children before contracting with an adoption facilitator, agency or attorney.

There is no other book on the market that will wake you up to reality but also gives you tools to help survive-the tools that were withheld and most often won't receive today from traditional counseling. .

I bought this book not long after it came out and then loaned it to our adoption support groups inter-loan library, where adoptees also are reading this eye-opening account of the experiences of the mother's they lost through the adoption process. This book prepares and equips mothers and those lost through adoption for a healthy reunion experience based on the well researched truths."











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