Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels
Abstract
Using concepts from Catherine Sheldrick Ross’s “Finding without Seeking: The Information Encounter in the Context of Reading for Pleasure,” a convenience sample of 129 romance novels about secret babies is examined to determine what information is imparted about the processes by which adoptees and birth parents search for each other.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.57.4.6704
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