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Adoption Undone

A painful story of an adoption breakdown

Auteur Carr Karen
Categorie anderstalig
Uitgeverij BAAF
Isbn 9781905664245
Jaartal 2007

Not every relationship is built to last.  But when adopters are totally committed to offering the permanence that adopted children so desperately seek, a severance of relationships between an adopted child and their adoptive parents and siblings is particularly harrowing.

This is the true story of an adoption and an adoption breakdown bravely told by the adoptive mother.  From the final court hearing, when Lucy returned to local authority care, Karen Carr looks back over the four years Lucy was with them and, without apportioning blame, describes what went wrong and why.
She doesn't spare herself, her family or the social workers, and she paints a touching picture of Lucy at the centre of events, which she triggers but cannot understand.  However, this is not only a tale of loss and regret but also of courage, generosity and self-discovery.

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