Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience - Softcover

Looks at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents.... A provocative, comprehensive inquiry. - Kirkus Reviews ""Important and powerful.... [the author] is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents."" - Psychology Today ""An articulate and convincing account of people Lifton has interviewed, men and women who feel crippled by not knowing who their parents were. Included are reports on dealers in black-market babies and equally disturbing information on supposedly reputable adoption agencies."" - Publishers Weekly

The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton's ""Lost and Found"" advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states' policies of maintaining closed birth records. For nearly three decades the book has topped ""Recommended Reading"" lists for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption - including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families.This expanded and updated edition, with new material on the controversies concerning adoption and new reproductive technologies, continues to add to the discussion on this important topic. A new preface and afterword by the author have been added, as well as a greatly expanded Resources section that in addition to relevant organizations now lists useful websites and blogs as well.