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Introduction: Natal Mothers In Adoption—A Human Rights Issue

Valerie J. Andrews
pp. 87-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980165
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Maternal Relinquishment: Reforms, Rights, And Other Myths

Alice Diver
pp. 94-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980166
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Mothers and Moral Injury

Pien Bos, Will Van Sebille
pp. 123-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980167
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“That picture perfect life”: “Dear Birth Mother” Letters as Sites of Power and Persuasion

Gretchen Sisson, Jessica Harrison
pp. 140-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980168
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Birthmothers Don’t Exist: Scripting and Disrupting the “One Real” Mother in Adoption

Valerie J. Andrews
pp. 167-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980169
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Experiences of Natal Mothers In Open Adoption

Valerie J. Andrews, Lori Chambers
pp. 193-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980170
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Now Is the Time: An Interview with Adoptee and Podcaster Haley Radke

Haley Radke, Sullivan Summer
pp. 220-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980171
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Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption by Eric C. Walker (review)

Margaret Homans
pp. 231-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980172
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Contributors’ Notes

pp. 236-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2025.a980173
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