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Although most mental health and behavioral health professionals have encountered adoption triad members—birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted persons—in their clinical practice, the vast majority have had no formal or informal training on adoption issues. The Handbook of Adoption is the first text designed for mental health practitioners to specifically address the many dimensions of adoption-related issues which can and do affect adoption triad members, specifically in the United States.
Reflections
Reflections
Portrait in Five Parts of a Daughter of Four Parents
My Face
It turns out my face
is from my birthfather.
My fifty year old face
a mirror image
of the portrait
of our father
on the wall
in my brother's study.
My brother says
the older I get,
the more I bring him
our father,
Billy Duckett,
whom I never knew.
And I tell you
what is either
a sad commentary
on my life
or else inevitable
in my life;
This bringing someone
to someone else
without lifting
a finger
is one of the
thrills of my life.
It is also what has made me
really like my face.
My Sense of Humor
It turns out my body
is my birthmother's.
My sense of humor, too,
if you are willing to grant
that either of us had one.
I've rarely told a joke
(or told one right) and I cried
at Abbott and Costello movies,
they were so mean
to the fat ...
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