Talk:Genealogical bewilderment

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Have completed a few edits on this page including:
 * adding in information on how the term originated,
 * corrected the reference to "Storm" with "Humphrey and Humphrey"
 * replaced "supposed" with "controversial". This is in accordance with the NPOV Principle of Wikipedia.  There is debate about this term, and it is still controversial in come quarters, but there are enough well-respected psychiatrists and psychologists who believe in the existence of this "syndrome" that it existence cannot be dismissed out of hand.

Further sub-headings could include: - "Genealogical Bewilderment and Gamete Donation" -- describe recent issues of "donor child" search registries, reunions, and legislative actions in the U.K., Australia, and policy considerations in Canada. - Resources and/or related organizations? - links to related issues of "relatedness deprivation" and "adoptee identity development"?

Cedartrees (talk) 21:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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One hopes that some scholar would add a paragraph discussing the attack on the work of H.J. Sants by the respected author, E. Wayne Carp, in his "Family Matters", p. 154-55. 162.83.199.87 (talk) 09:40, 2 May 2010 (UTC)Reg Niles. RegNMINiles@cs.com

Violates NPOV
This article is startlingly partisan, without even an attempt of criticism of the reification of this supposed disorder. There is no discussion of the obvious impact of cultural specificities upon ideas of family which influence birth family searches. I implore someone with authoritative knowledge in the area to make a review to balance the violation of NPOV herein. 曙䬠 - Sant&#39;owax Q&#39;ulsnas (talk) 13:22, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Outdated preoccupation with adoption and lacking relevancy in the present context
This article erroneously ascribes the condition exclusively to the environment of adoption. This was mostly true seventy years ago. It has not been true for many decades now. Adoption has shrunk dramatically, to the point of insignificance in most of the Western world. This phenomenon is now principally experienced by the children of single parents and/or the illegitimate (as it ever was), and overwhelmingly in relation to the child's natural father only. The mother is either reluctant to share knowledge of paternity, refuses to, or is unable to. That's today's reality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.151.210.84 (talk) 22:33, 20 June 2022 (UTC)