Title: Informative, compassionate and insightful
Product review: An excellent, well researched book that can be read on many levels. As a resource book, it exposes adoption myths with great love and respect for women who lost their children to adoption. The book also contains exercises to assist mothers in healing the damage of not being allowed to grieve their losses, to overcome the shame and guilt heaped on them, and the pain , anger and other issues that are the legacy of losing children to adoption. Joe Soll is an adoption therapist and himself an adoptee, who has yet to find his own family of birth. He has used his journey to help other adoptees and mothers who were separated from their children by adoption. In this book he has the assistance of Karen Wilson Buterbaugh. I highly recommend this book. It deals unflinchingly with past adoption practices, which even though the book was written about the American experience, is almost identical to Australia practices. I couldn't put this book down! Lina Eve
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