Finding My Place: Birth Mothers Manage the Boundary Ambiguity of Adoption Reunion Contact

This study describes how essentialist notions of motherhood infl uence adoption reunion outcomes. The data analysis is based primarily on in-depth interviews with 33 reunited birth mothers. Collectively, the birth mothers perceived themselves to be the mothers of a child lost to them through adoptio...

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Published in:Qualitative sociology review : QSR 2015-07, Vol.11 (3), p.106-122
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Adopted children
Adoption
Ambiguity
Family relations
Mothers
Parent-child relations
Personal relationships
Reunification
Sociology
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Ambiguity
Family relations
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Parent-child relations
Personal relationships
Reunification
Sociology
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