Re: Open adoption

[William Francis Northey <northey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 May 1997, Shari BenNatan wrote:

> Shalom!
> 
> I'm interested in any NEW research done on the subject of open adoption.
> The last wave of research was done in the mid 80's and since then I haven't
> found anything.  All of the research that I did find touched upon what went
> on between the 2 couples.  Now, a whole generation later, I'm interested in
> knowing what the children gained and lost from this way of being brought up. 
> 
> Could anyone enlighten me on this subject?
> 

I'm not sure what is the latest, but the Minnesota Texas Adoption Research
Project has been looking at some of these issue.  You can check out their
web site:

http://www.che.umn.edu/fsos/mtarp/mtarp.html

Good luck.

Bill

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