The other reservation concerns the long-term effects of adoption, which it is thought may damage personality and identity.

The primary focus of the book is on the effects of adoption on the adoptee.

The Effects of adoption on the birth-mother are the little-studied stigmatizations and psychological effects on women who give up their children for adoption.

Effects of Adoption on Mental Health of the Mother: What Professionals Knew and Didn't Tell Us.

Nurses training needs to include a brief session on the effects of adoption on health and family relationships so nurses working in hospitals and the community can assume an active role with adoption participants.

He calls his daughter C.O.G.F. ("child of great fortitude"), and as they zigzag from one motel to the next he regales her with his views on the deleterious effects of adoption.

She focuses her academic research on institutional theory, public sector accounting, and the political effects of adoption of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) by the public sector.

Tizard's study, for example, gives a positive picture in terms of the effects of adoption on the child's development and the creation of an affectionate family unit, as compared with long-term fostering or restoration of a separated child to the natural mother.

Where "After Shocks" and "Phantasie" examined the effects of adoptions on adults' searching for their birth parents and geneaological roots, the subject of "The Baby Dance" is found in the morally ambiguous world of surrogate motherhood and private adoptions.

One type of reservation relates to the class nature of adoption: it is thought that the observed beneficial effects of adoption stem mostly from the tendency of adoption to move children to a somewhat higher social class than that of the family of origin.

Judith and Martin Land, Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child, (2011), identify genealogical bewilderment, oppositional defiant disorder, selective mutism, anti-social behavior, The Primal Wound, and other related terms to describe potential effects of adoption on children who are orphaned, fostered, or adopted.