books+
books + other things concerning relinquishment/adoption.
BOOKS
ann fessler, the girls who went away (2007)
anne heffron, you don't look adopted (2016)
passionately reviewed by [birth mother] first mother forum (2018)
susan kiyo ito, i would meet you anywhere: a memoir (2023)
h. david kirk, shared fate: a theory of adoption and mental health (1964)
first adoption book to challenge twisted social ideas like "matching" babies to potential adoptive parents' traits, pretending that there is no difference between an adopted child and a natural child. suggesting a new consciousness that acknowledges the truth. that adoptive parents are raising someone else's child.
nancy verrier, the primal wound (1993)
>related film, reckoning with the primal wound (2022)
jeanette winterson, why be happy when you could be normal?
LINKS
history/timeline of adoption (1693-1997) in the US, a PBS article
operation identity, a wild and extensive listing of books, pamphlets and other such things around membership in the so-called adoption "triad." (since 1979, new mexico)
FILMS
second best, full length youtube video (1994)
review by roger ebert (1994)
"Graham Holt (William Hurt) is a reclusive Welsh postal worker who lives with his terminally ill father. Aware that he'll soon be alone, Graham decides to adopt a son, but, because he's a single man, he's told he'll be offered only the most troubled children available. He soon begins a visitation period with a volatile young boy named James (Chris Cleary Miles) whose mother committed suicide and whose father (Keith Allen) is serving time in jail." (review, rotten tomatoes)