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  • Title: Mediated reunions in adoption: findings from an evaluation study.
    Author: Speirs CC, Duder S, Sullivan R, Kirstein S, Propst M, Meade D.
    Journal: Child Welfare; 2005; 84(6):843-66. PubMed ID: 16544568.
    Abstract:
    In Canada, there are long waiting lists of adopted persons and birthparents seeking information or actual reunions. In the province of Quebec, the government authorized a pilot project, involving a fee-for-service program and use of contract social workers to supplement agency staff as intermediaries in the reunion process. This article reports on the project's evaluation and provides birth-parents' and adoptees' responses to reunion. A survey of clients who used this service found a high level of satisfaction. There were, however, some significant differences between birthparents and adoptees as well as between those who were searching and those found.
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