Amazon.com rating
"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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