Family & Relationships Adoption & Fostering
Adoption Reunions
A Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Families
- Publisher
- Second Story Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1993
- Category
- Adoption & Fostering
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780929005416
- Publish Date
- Sep 1993
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
In this practical book, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion; drawing on extensive interviews and the experience of her own reunion.
About the author
Michelle McColm (her adoptive name) worked in adoption discloser at a Children's Aid Society and became familiar with the stories of adoptees and birth mothers alike. An adoptee herself, she has successfully navigated her way through a reunion with her birth mother and extended family. Since then, Zoe Kessler, (as she is now known) is a freelance journalist with her work appearing in major newspapers and magazines across Canada. She is also a blogger for "The Huffington Post" and "Psych Central." She now lives in Toronto.