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Our son, a stranger : adoption breakdown and its effects on parents / Marie Adams.

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"In 1973 Marie and Rod Adams, brimming with idealism and keenly aware of the plight of disadvantaged aboriginal children, adopted Tim, a young Cree boy, two and one half years old. Tim began displaying severe behavioural problems almost immediately, problems that, despite their efforts to find...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Adams, Marie, 1945- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2002]
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subjects:
Interracial adoption > Canada > Case studies.
Adoptive parents > Canada > Psychology.
Indian children > Canada.
Indigenous children > Canada.
Indigenous children.
Adoptive parents > Psychology.
Indian children.
Interracial adoption.
Canada.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • The Adams family
  • The Roethler Family
  • The Brooks Family
  • The Graves family
  • The Verdan family
  • The Pelligrini family
  • Why do some people adopt?-- The effects of adoption breakdown on parents
  • The search for answers
  • Applying what we learned.

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