ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the transition from one reporting on the experiences of the full sample of adopted parents to focusing on a smaller number of parents who wrote in more detail about their Eastern European adoption journeys. Comparing adoption to a much-anticipated journey is an analogy to which most people can relate. This is not just any journey. This will be the journey of all journeys, the trip of a lifetime. Respondents case narratives illustrate what works and what does not in the way Eastern European adoptions have been handled. Creating a family is not only exciting, it can also be stressful. Adopting children close in age to each other and at the same time other may bring a couple closer together. Outsiders looking at their comments may see these parents’ lives differently than they themselves do. When many of the children who grew up in the 1950s think about a model.
