The Study of Birth Mother's Adoption Reunion Experience
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
YANG, Su-Yee
Abstract
The openness of adoption makes searching and reunion possible and its need increases with time. For the birth mothers facing the irreplaceable parent-child relationship but legally disconnected, what does their reunion experience? Currently, the topic is hardly discussed in the literature. The purpose of this study is to describe the subjective reunion experience of the birth mothers after they separated with their own children for years. This study used qualitative research method and in-depth interviews were made. A total of six birth mothers who had reunion experience were interviewed. The result showed that the birth mothers had to bear the lifelong burdens that the society stigmatized the unwed women and the identity as birth mothers of the adoptees in addition to a series of hardship and difficult choices. The burdens made the birth mothers have no choice to place the child for adoption and it become the secret in the family. Even after the reunion, the social pressure was all around them. With the request of the searching and reunion from the adoptees, the birth mothers re-experienced their past. In spite of the complicated feelings, they finally accept the request thinking of the adoptees’ interest and their own inner needs. Reunion experience was a trip of complicated emotions. Returning the past and the revealed secrets made the birth mothers re-experience the grief and loss. Meanwhile, the reconnection and being forgiven helped them heal and released. The conclusion of this study also collected and organized their concerns and the development tasks of the birth mothers in different reunion process in order to provide that the practitioners prepared the birth mothers for reunion. At last, this study submitted the suggestions to the society, the practitioners, the birth mothers and the future research for a reference of the planning of adoption welfare services and of the birth mothers while they faced the adoptees’ needs of reunion.
Subjects
Searching
Reunion
Birthmother
Type
thesis
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