Product Description

Now in its third edition, this widely acclaimed resource provides an honest and detailed guide for adoptees and their birthparents. It offers a wealth of ideas, advice, resources, and encouragement to anyone considering embarking on his or her own journey of discovery. Drawing from personal experience as well as from extensive research, author Jayne Askin presents creative ways to overcome obstacles and attack problems that occur during the search process.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #803306 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
“Recommended for public libraries and social science collections.”–Library Journal

“An Impressively well-researched, fully informational guide.”–Publisher's Weekly

“Whether medical, genetic, genealogical, or personal, the need to know one's family history can be especially strong for those adopted as children....Search provides a detailed, step-by-step process for unearthing adoptions information.”–Adoptees In Search Letter

“...crammed with helpful strategies....this guide is likely to diminish the amount of time searchers spend looking for sources, and will surely provide support throughout the process.”–Kirkus Reviews

“This book is a must in any organization's library. If you are involved in a search, you should have one of your own.”–June Tanner, Research Director, The Kansas City Adoptologist

“We all leave a paper trail and Jayne Askin knows how to follow it.”–FGS

About the Author
JAYNE ASKINs arduous search for the identity of her own birthparents led her to write Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents.

Customer Reviews

Excellent search tool
This is a wonderful guide for searches. It takes you through your search step by step. "Search" also gives contact addresses for support groups, sample letters to send seeking information & the addresses to send those letters to during your search. I found it a very helpful book.

Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents
I Loved the support of the book. I no longer felt alone after reading it. I used the sample letter in the book and found my birth mom and got to have a reunion this year with her and my sisters. Thank You, Jane Askin! This book is very detailed and very factual, but easy to understand and follow -If your affected by adoption this book is a must for your library-buy it today!!

Make it your "search bible"!
This is undoubtedly the most comprehensive book on completing an adoption search that you will be able to find. The difference between this and other books that show you how to investigate to find missing people is that Askin's book is specifically tailored for the adoption situation. An adoptee herself, Askin is keenly aware with the emotional issues that go into a search for birth parents or relinquished child. In fact, the first few chapters are dedicated to helping the reader decide if he or she can invest, emotionally as well as financially, time-wise, etc. in the huge commitment undertaking an adoption search requires. From there she delves into the "how-to's" of a search. No, it will not necessarily lead a person with an extremely complicated search to her answers (in my case, I can't uncover my birth father's name, even after ten years). However, it was instrumental in leading me straight to my birth mother. One thing I wish it covered was the reunion process and what to expect afterward...but that's what books like _Birth Bond_ by Gediman, Dunphy, and Brown are for.