Trauma to Surrendering Mothers

Further Reading:

• Adoption Trauma: Thirty Years of Research on the Damage to Relinquishing Mothers
• Adoption and Loss, The Hidden Grief by Evelyn Robinson
• ‘Unwed’ Mothers Policy: About Medical Assault
• Effects of Adoption on Mental Health of the Mother: What Professionals Knew and Didn’t Tell Us.
• “Scarred by Adoption” by Jennifer Doane
• Adoption Trauma to Mothers: Part 1 of Dr Geoff Rickarby’s Testimony to the New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry
• Adoption Trauma to Mothers: Part 2 of Dr Geoff Rickarby’s Testimony to the New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry
• Adoption Trauma to Mothers: Part 3 of Dr Geoff Rickarby’s Testimony to the New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry
• Quotes from Adoption-related Literature
• The Trauma of Relinquishment: The Long Term Impact of Relinquishment on Birthmothers who Lost their Infants to Adoption – Judy Kelly M.A.