Birth parents who relinquished babies for adoption revisited.
The fact that adoption records may be opened by court decree to enable adoptees to have access to identifying information about their birth parents makes it incumbent upon those concerned with adoption practices to study the impact of this on adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and professional practice. This paper reports on research addressed to the attitudes and feelings of birth parents years after they relinquished babies for adoption.
D000300:Adoption; D001290:Attitude; D003219:Confidentiality; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007086:Illegitimacy; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D009042:Motivation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D011996:Records