Fifteen Israeli women adopted as infants share their narratives, commencing from earliest childhood and up to the point when they themselves become mothers. Their life stories confront social, psychological and philosophical approaches to defining concepts such as 'belongingness', 'blood relations', 'choice', 'abandonment', and 'shame'. Moving through the life cycle model, the reader is brought to a reexamination of social and legal dilemmas: how can the adopted woman's right to receive information about her source family be ensured while simultaneously maintaining the right to privacy of a...
Fifteen Israeli women adopted as infants share their narratives, commencing from earliest childhood and up to the point when they themselves become mo...
