Coming Together

Martha Shideler

• 19 oktober 2011
• 9781466305281

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Growing up as an adoptee, with no knowledge of her heredity or genetic identity, Martha Shideler spent 26 years searching for her birth family. Coming Together-an Adoptee's Story documents her fight, against seemingly insurmountable odds, to know the truth, to discover the missing pieces. This book also describes what it means to grow up adopted-exposing the discrimination and pressures that adoptees are subjected to that do not exist for others. Believing that it is the secrecy-not the information that is kept secret-that damages all members of the adoption triad (adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents), Martha makes an eloquent plea for the civil rights of Adoptees and the elimination of the secrecy inherent in the US adoption system. From frustration and humiliation, Martha's story move toward its exciting climax as she discovers an entire family and puts the pieces of her life together.