Adoption category: 683 books
by John M. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Some children in Russian orphanages will be forever changed by an adoption and some will be left behind. To Sing Frogs, a memoir authored by John M. Simmons, tells the deeply personal tale of the Simmons family and their quest to adopt five children from rural Russia. Readers venture deep into Russia...
Bubble Wrapped Children
How social networking is transforming the face of 21st century adoption
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Numerous reasons cause adopted teenagers to reconnect with their birth family via Facebook, creating new challenges for adoption today and tomorrow. Incorporating theory, practice, anecdotes, metaphors, diagrams, models and case studies, this accessible book, written by an experienced adopter, clearly...
by Amy Masters, Elaine Rizzo
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Two Voices, One Story This is the true story of a girl called Amy and the English “mother” who adopted her from an institute in China when she was just a baby. It’s a story about love, family and identity; and the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter. When Amy came to be adopted in 1999,...
The Lonely Little Horse
A Chinese Adoption Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The Lonely Little Horse is based on the real life adoption of the authors daughter Amanda and is written in an animal fable genre, some true names and facts and some good old fashioned storytelling!
The Brotherhood of Joseph
A Father's Memoir of Infertility and Adoption in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
While miracles in reproductive technology have brought joy to millions, those very advances have plunged many couples into an unrelenting cycle of hope and heartbreak. One failed attempt may lead to another and another—but how do you give up when there is always another doctor, another procedure...
by Edith J Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
A story of adoption, searching, finding and becoming a family for thirteen siblings separated by fifty-six years and 2,745 miles. A story of perseverance, frustration with the adoption laws and differing backgrounds all coming together in one place. It is the story of a group of people who become a family.
Fraud on the Court
One Adoptee's Fight to Reclaim His Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
An ambitious, real-life account that seeks to tell the story of the one member of the adoption triad whose voice has been broadly ignored to this point: that of the adult adoptee.
Having made national headlines for his stunning legal victory over the black market adoption ring that had robbed...
To Have and Not to Hold
The Bonding of Two Mothers through Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
When Lorri Antosz Benson, a 24-year-old successful producer for a groundbreaking national television show, finds herself in an impossible situation, she digs deep and faces the heartbreaking reality that the best choice for her beloved new baby is to be raised by someone else.
To Have and Not...
Lily Was the Valley
Undone by Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Difficulty unlooked for. Loss unforeseen. Hope forever.
They’d never heard about the darker sides of adoption. Never counted on illness. Or loss. As for Dann, his head had always ruled his heart. Now Lily was dying, and he was about to find out just how little he knew about love.
Dann...
The Easter Moose
One Family's Journey Adopting Through Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Catherine Marshall’s story reveals the heartbreak and hope of foster parenting. Thirty-eight and newly married, Catherine yearned to be a mother and adoption seemed a viable option. The county’s Foster-Adopt Program was affordable, so she and her new husband were confident they could adopt and parent...
A Generation Removed
The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished...
Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits
A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
An informed, comprehensive guide to raising a multicultural family.
How many times do you celebrate the New Year at home? Just once? If your family is Jewish, Chinese, and a few other things besides, you might celebrate twice or even three times a year! As the rate of cross-cultural adoption...
Family Bound
One Couple's Journey Through <Br>Infertility and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2003
Statistics show that over two million couples will experience some type of infertility issue when they try to become pregnant. However, when you are one of those two million, you feel completely alone and believe that no one can truly understand what you are going through.
This honest and revealing...
Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family -- whether face-to-face or by letter -- yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn't considered.
This book explores what attachment, neuroscience and trauma tell us about...