Note: All case studies have been taken from Adoption UK’s magazine Adoption Today and from the Adoption UK forum, except in the case of birth mothers’ stories and one of the case studies in Chapter 9. All names have been changed, except where there has been a request to keep a real name. Occasionally a case study has a double asterisk **, which indicates that it appeared in Ann Morris (1999) The Adoption Experience. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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