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Family, Life Course, and Society

2011

Selected Works

Adoption / Family Preservation

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The Ironies Of Adoption, Mirah Riben Jan 2011

The Ironies Of Adoption, Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben

The author points out the irony of the extent people will go to in an attempt to conceive and birth a child that is genetically and biologically connected to them, yet when all their efforts fail and they ersort to adoption, they accept a system that relies on lies and secrecy and severs all the adoptee's connections to his heredity.