Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting, Elizabeth Bartholet, Esq. 1993: challenges laws and practices of the emotional issues of infertility and adoption.

Being Adopted: the Lifelong Search for Self, David Brodzinsky, PhD, Marshall Schecter, MD and Robin Henig, 1992: probes adoptees' complex issues in common throughout their developmental life-span pathways

Journey of the Adopted Self: a Quest for Wholeness_, Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D, Harper Collins,1994: based a study of adult adoptees and Dr. Lifton's own adoptee experiences, her work explores adoptees' inner psychological world.

Fostering Changes: treating attachment-disordered foster children, Richard Delaney, PhD., Walter J. Corbett Pub., Fort Collins, CO, 1991.

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss, Claudia Jewett-Jarratt, 1994: all adopted children have suffered the loss of birthparents; many have lost one or more foster and adoptive parents; explains three stages of mourning with appropriate parenting techniques

Wounded Innocents, by Richard Wexler, about disruptions from foster/adoptive parents.

Second Choice: Growing Up Adopted, Robert Anderson, MD, 1993: a psychiatrist describes his own black-market adoption and growing up adopted.

Adoption Crisis:The Truth Behind Adoption and Foster Care, CaroleMcKelvey and Stevens: optimistic and realistic.

The Adoption Reader: Birthmothers, Adoptive Mothers and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories, Susan Wadia-Ells, ed. 1995.

Saying Goodbye To Baby-A Counselors Guide To Birthparent Loss And Grief, Patricia E. Roles Vol.I. 1989 Vol.II. 1990

How it Feels to Be Adopted, Jill Krementz, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1982; pb 1993: nineteen adoptees ages 8 to 16 confide their feelings, questions, frustrations, fantasies and joys about their experiences of being adopted.

Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for Those Touched by Adoption, Patricia Irwin Johnston, MS, Perspectives Press, 1983: a collection of poetry about adoption, written all members of the adoption triad, birthmothers, adoptees, adoptive parents, as well as adoption professionals.

Secrets, Alane Ferguson, 1997

Shadow Train:A Journey Between Relinquishment and Reunion Patricia E. Taylor, 1995

Why Didn't She Keep Me? Answers to the Question Every Adopted Child Asks, Barbara Burlingham-Brown, MS, 1994: firsthand narratives by birthmothers, covering a broad range of adoption situations.

Birth Mothers-Women Who Have Relinquished Babies For Adoption Tell Their Stories, Merry Block Jones, 1993

Birthbond: Reunions Between Birthparents and Adoptees - What Happens After, Judith S. Gediman, 1991

Synchronicity and Reunion : The Genetic Connection of Adoptees and Birthparents, LaVonne H. Stiffler:an exploration of surprising coicidences in the union/loss/reunion stories of families separated by adoption.

Did My First Mother Love Me?, Kathryn Ann Miller, 1994: a picture-book story of one birthmother's hopes for her baby; concludes with a section for parents about talking to children about adoption.