Forty-five parents who have lost children to adoption in seven different countries share their thoughts on adoptions that occurred between 1958 and 1989. Together they provide compelling and thought-provoking reading and will contribute in a very positive way to validating the feelings of those who have experienced adoption separation and educating the community around those experiences and the resulting outcomes.

A reunion between family members who have been separated by an adoption can be a very emotional event. This resource helps to explain that mixture of feelings and to increase understanding of the emotional dynamics of the reunion experience.

Robinson describes--from a new and exciting perspective--why those who have been separated by family members through adoption often feel a desire to seek them out and also why certain issues arise when such reunions do occur. The text is full of practical suggestions based on her personal experience of adoption separation and reunion and also her extensive counselling career in post-adoption work with adults.

Based on the author's personal experience as a mother who lost a child through adoption and her experience as a social worker who has worked extensively in the area of post-adoption counselling with adults, this resource graphically describes the disenfranchised grief associated with adoption and suggests ways in which that hidden grief can be acknowledged and confronted.