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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. UNCHARTED WATERS: HOW I LEARNED ABOUT ADOPTION
2. FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX: PATRICK DEGELLEKE
3. THE DARK SON: MATTHEW HEIKKILA
4. MATTHEW'S TRIAL
5. "THE RAGE WITHIN": PATRICK NIIRANEN
6. A COMPULSION TO REPEAT: STEVEN DAVID CATLIN
7. "MY MOM WAS A WORKING GIRL": JOEL RIFKIN
8. THE GOOD ADOPTEE
9. THE TRIAL THAT NEVER WAS
10. HOW NOT TO RAISE AN ADOPTED CHILD: SON OF SAM
11. THE CASINO KILLER: JEREMY STROHMEYER
12. "SHE MUST BE SO LONELY AND ALONE"
13. PLEA BARGAIN
14. CRITICS OF ACS: THE LOYAL OPPOSITION AND OTHERS
15. ADOPTION POLITICS: THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD?
16. ACS: TREATMENT AND PREVENTION: WHAT PARENTS AND THERAPISTS SHOULD KNOW
17. CONCLUSION: HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
  NOTES
  BIBLIOGRAPHY

 





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