My research problem temporarily solved
This won’t work forever but for putting together a proposal, I think this is all I’ll need.
I’m not going to interview subjects right now. I found the name of an academic who has done a lot of research I need to read so I’m going to do that and then maybe interview her. I’m also going to read the four other books and see where that puts me. It may be that my hypothesis is already proven and I won’t need to do more than illustrate the idea. If it’s been proven wrong, I’ll obviously have to rethink. And if no one’s tried to prove it, then I’ll see about making an argument for it.
Right now I’m making a list of questions I want answered from this project and a list of ideas to explore broken out — broadly — into chapter possibilities.
While I DO think that Madison will appreciate you even more for giving her access to a relationship with her birthmom I seriously doubt she’ll wake up one day and stop loving you. I guess I’m on the “nature” side of the fence when it comes to personality (I don’t think you can change a child’s core personality, only modulate it) and on the “nurture” side of the fence when it comes to “who’s my mom”. Doesn’t mean she won’t love J, too, or that J is any less important, but it’ll be different.
ooops - commented on the wrong post! Sorry.