Adoption References

I can't find the thread I passed by a few days ago that asked for adoption books. Here is what I've come by on the internet and a magazine recently: I could focus on nothing while I waited for Megans letter. One minute I wanted to jump off a bridge. The next minute I was euphoric. I knew my life was about to change. While I had read an occasional newspaper article about reunions and The Search for Anna Fisher, I knew little about the search movement or why adoptees searched. I knew nothing about AAC, Origins, Bastard Nation, the local Oregon support group, the International Soundex Reunion Registry, the fight for open records, LorraineҒs memoir Birthmark, Betty Jean Lifton's writings, or any of the other books." I knew of CUB (Concerned United Birthparents) only through adoptive mother Lucinda FranksӒ biased and mean 1993 New Yorker article, The War for Baby ClausenӔ about DeBoer case. With work and three daughters I did not have time for morning news shows or daytime talk shows. I barely knew who Phil Donahue was. I prepared to call Megan by watching Secrets and Lies, a 1996 British film about a mother/daughter reunion. Source: Looking for Someone? A Resource Guide International Soundex Reunion Registry PO BOX 371179 Las Vegas, NV 89137 888-886-ISRR The Alma Society Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association PO BOX 85 Denville, NJ 07834 Adoption Registry Connect A registry database Find My Family California Mutual Consent Adoption Search Reunion Registry Recommended Books "The Girls Who Went Away" by Ann Fessler "Birthright" by Jean A.S. Strauss "A Man and His Mother: An Adopted Son's Search" by Tim Green "Birthmothers" by Merry Bloch Jones "Lost & Found" by Betty Jean Lifton-B.P.