Studies

• Excellent (and rare) longitudinal study on openness in adoption: https://www.umass.edu/ruddchair/research/mtarp
• Study on the transition to adoptive parenting for same sex families: 

                          https://wordpress.clarku.edu/agoldberg/research/transition-to-adoptive-parenthood-project-tapp/
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Books

• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self, by David Brodzinsky
• Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption, by Micky Duxbury
• The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child, by Nancy Verrier
• In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption by Rhonda M. Roorda
• Inside Transracial Adoption by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg
• Creole Son: An Adoptive Mother Untangles Nature and Nurture, by E. Kay Trimberger​

Kids Books

• Sam's Sister by Juliet C. Bond (This is the only children's book I know of that is directed toward the children of a birth family, helping them understand that there is an adoption plan for the baby their mother is currently carrying. It is an excellent description of the open adoption placement process in general.) 
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
• A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
• We Belong Together by Todd Parr
• My Two Dads and Me by Michael Joosten​

Clearinghouse of Resources on Transracial Adoption
https://www.pactadopt.org/resources/resource-library.html

Documentary Films

• Adoptees Flip the Script     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTGzZboJCAU&feature=emb_rel_end
• Closure: A Documentary About Adoption     http://closuredocumentary.com/
• ​Twin Sisters     https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/coming-to-independent-lens-twin-sisters/
• I Was Adopted from Korea --- Here's What It Was Like     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeIC1detnD8&t=395s​

Representation in Narrative Films

• Juno
• Mother and Child
• Penelope
• Casa de los Babys​​

For Birth/First Mothers
Excellent organization offering counseling, support, retreats, and contact with other first mothers:
https://www.mpoweralliance.org/

This is by no means an exhaustive list.  If you are looking for additional resources:

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