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AdoptionIreland offers the following book selections as a background to adoption in Ireland and the adoption experience in general, courtesy of Amazon. To order any of these books online, simply click the book cover or title link below. A portion of the revenue generated from any book purchase through these links, or the Amazon links found on all AdoptionIreland web pages, will be donated to AdoptionIreland.
Background to Irish Adoption
Banished Babies,

by Mike Millotte

Export of over 2000 Irish children to the United States in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's.

 Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland,

by Frances Finnegan

The book focuses on the Magdalen Homes run by the Good Shepherd nuns in Ireland.

 Suffer the Little Children: The inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools,

by Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan

A comprehensive look at the entire state/church child care system in Ireland.

The Light in the Window,

by June Goulding

The author worked as a midwife in the Bessboro', Cork mother-baby home attached to the Sacred Heart Adoption Agency.
The Adoption Experience
Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child,

by Nancy Verrier

The book deals with the separation of mother and child. Highly recommended.

 Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience,

by Betty Jean Lifton

Lost and Found has become a bible to many adopted people and to those who want to understand the adoption experience.

 Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter,

by Betty Jean Lifton

The author is one of America's leading advocates for open adoption. This book is her own adoption, search and reunion story.

 Journey of the Adopted Self: A quest for Wholeness,

by Betty Jean Lifton

This book argues that adopted people cannot develop a full sense of self without some reconnection to the painful separation from their original families.
The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide,

by Julie Jarrell Bailey & Lynn N Giddens

Preparing yourself for the search, reunion and beyond.

 The Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America,

by Adam Pertman

This book explains how adoptions were done in previous decades and details the recent changes that have improved the process and speculates on future practices.

 Blue-eyed Son: The Story of an Adoption,

by Nicky Campbell

The TV presenter's autobiography concentrates on his adoption experience, his search and reunion.

 Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew,

by Sherrie Eldridge

The title speaks for itself, really!
Birth Bond: Between Birthparents and Adoptees,

by Judith Gediman & Linda Brown

A great resource for understanding reunion and beyond.

 Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe Versus Wade,

by Ricki Solinger

A pioneering work, it unravels the complex, disturbing reality of single pregnancy in the Post World War II era in the US.

   

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