ABSTRACT
W hen researchers or clinicians discuss adoption, there seems to be unani-mous consensus that adoption involves a triad of grief. No matter how well or smoothly an adoption is executed, it is always accompanied by loss and grief (Wolff, n.d.). Generally, there are at least three parties intimately involved, and all parties experience loss and grief-perhaps one could say even traumatic loss (Johnson, 2002). The three parties of the triad are the relinquishing birthparents, the adoptee, and the adoptive parents (Cooper, 2002; Leon, 2002).
