Microaggressions have become a relevant framework for identifying and understanding
more subtle covert slights that occur to marginalized groups and individuals. While this …

There is a vast amount of literature on the topic of adoption, yet it is difficult to find a central
source of the most contemporary scholarship from a variety of disciplines. The primary …

The question “who am I?” is an enduring one which invokes a variety of responses
depending on a person's social and cultural context. Such a question suggests that there …

Abstract The Aotearoa/New Zealand Adoption Act 1955 legislated and governed adoption
practices from 1955 to 1985. Through an exploration of the historical, cultural and social …

This article traces the history of the West German debate about whether, how, and why
adoptive parents should or should not tell their children the truth about their origins …

Why Lie? A History of Adoption since 1945 This article traces the history of the debate about
whether, how, and why adoptive parents should or should not tell their children the truth …

This thesis presents a qualitative exploratory study of adopted people's birth and adoptive
sibling relationships across the life-span. Very little is known at present about the …

Birth fathers1 of children adopted from care form a neglected group of men who have
significance in their own right and because of their meaning for their children who have …

Although adoption is becoming more prominent and accepted in society as a means for
building a family (Fisher, 2003), adoptive individuals and families may continue to …

This paper will discuss two search memoirs with widely divergent results by British Jeremy
Harding and American Lori Jakiela, in which the memoirists recount discoveries about their …