Open adoption and diverse families : complex relationships in the digital age, Abbie E. Goldberg

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-423) and index

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Contents: Setting the stages : open adoption, gay parenthood, the digital age, and the current study -- Getting to adoption : the path before the path -- Orienting to open adoption, considering contact, and reflecting on race : pre-adoption perspectives and preferences -- "Meeting the reality of our situation" : placement experiences and circumstances and post-placement openness and contact -- Imagining and enacting birth family contact over time : trajectories of openness among private domestic adopters -- Navigating openness and contact in child welfare adoptions -- Adoption talk : communicative openness throughout childhood -- Weaving a family narrative : genetics talk -- Facebook as facilitator or foe : boundaries and birth family relationships on social media and beyond -- Absence and ambivalence : how birth fathers fit into adoption stories -- Summing up : practical strategies and applications for families -- Appendix A. Demographic information for participants -- Appendix B. Data analysis process

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