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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
"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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