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01-05-2015 | Book Review
Holden Lori with Hass Crystal: The open-hearted way to open adoption. Helping your child growing up whole
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham USA, 2013, 211 pp
Auteur:
Silvia Di Lisi
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Child and Family Studies
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Uitgave 5/2015
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Excerpt
“I don’t want to have four parents […] Mom, call them both tomorrow, and tell them I never want to see them again!”, screamed Tessa one day, after the meeting with her birth father, Joe. Tessa is the adoptive child of Lori Holden, author of the open-adoption based book, in which she describes the open-adoption as a process of advance and hitches, happiness and emotionally violent reactions. Children process their identity at various stages, taking together past and present, nature and nurture, biology and biography in order to integrate themselves on the wholeness. …