Suggested Reading
Adoption Reunions – A Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Families (Michelle McColm)
Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues & Feelings of Being Adopted (Marilou Russell)
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (David Brodzinsky, PhD., Marshall Schechter, M.D., & Robin Marantz-Henig)
Beyond the Butterbox - A Collection of Stories of Survivors of The Ideal Maternity Home (Robert Hartlen)
Birth Bond – Reunions Between Birthpartents and Adoptees – What Happens After… (Judith S. Gediman & Linda P. Brown)
Butterbox Babies – Baby Sales, Baby Deaths – New Revelations 15 Years Later (Bette L. Cahill)
Butterbox Survivors – Life After the Ideal Maternity Home (Robert Hartlen)
Coming Home to Self – The Adopted Child Grows Up (Nancy Newton Verrier )
Journey of the Adopted Self (Betty Jean Lifton)
Journeys After Adoption: Understanding Lifelong Issues (Jayne Schooler & Betsie L. Norris)
Looking for Lost Bird – A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots (Yvette Melanson with Claire Safran)
Lost & Found (Betty Jean Lifton)
May the Circle Be Unbroken – An Intimate Journey Into the Heart of Adoption (Lynn C. Franklin with Elizabeth Ferber)
Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents (Jane Askin)
Searching for a Past: The Adopted Adult's Unique Process of Finding Identity (Jayne Schooler)
The Other Mother: A Woman's Love for the Child She Gave Up (Carol Schaefer)
The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child (Nancy Verrier)
The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the U.S. & Canada 1930-1972 (includes one chapter on the Ideal Maternity Home) (Karen A. Balcom)
Twice Born (Betty Jean Lifton)