Further Reading:
- Adoption Trauma: Thirty Years of Research on the Damage to Relinquishing Mothers
- Adoption Induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Mothers of the Baby Scoop Era (PDF) by Karen Wilson Buterbaugh
- Adoption and Loss, The Hidden Grief by Evelyn Robinson
- 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.