healthychildren.org: “Coming Out: Information for Parents of LGBTQ Teens”

This book clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss, affecting the relationships of the adopted person throughout life. This book also discusses pre-and perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding, and loss. Additionally, it lists the coping mechanisms which adoptees use to be able to attach and live in a family they’re not biologically related to. The purpose of this book is to help heal the adoption community and bring understanding and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt abandoned.