Adoption category: 683 books
Confessions of an Adoptive Parent
Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Know That You Are Not Alone on This Journey
Adopting or fostering a child brings its own unique set of challenges only another parent facing the same uphill climb could possibly understand. From parenting children with traumatic pasts, to dealing with attachment issues, to raising a child with...
by Rosie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate. Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed to...
by Rosie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate. Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called “repatriation of anthropology” and by the influence of feminist studies, queer studies, adoption studies, and science and technology studies. These interdisciplinary approaches have been further developed...
by Michael Galluccio, Jon Galluccio, David Groff
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
What makes a family?
Love makes a family.
An American Family is the story of Jon and Michael Galluccio, two gay men who become foster parents to Adam, a premature baby, born with the AIDS virus and addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana, and alcohol. While nursing Adam through the many medical...
by Jodie Hampshire, Selina Smyth, Tammie Flinos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This is the book the authors wish they had a decade ago as they started out to raise healthy and resilient adopted children – and stay sane in the process.
You’ve completed the paperwork, waited and waited and then waited some more. Then, your adopted child is yours to parent. And you plan...
Finding Family
My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes readers on an exhilarating roller-coaster...
Foster Children
Where They Go and How They Get On
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
What happens to looked-after children in the longer term? This book analyses the outcomes of a large-scale study of foster children in the UK. It includes individual case studies and draws extensively on the views of foster children themselves. The authors examine:
Why children remain fostered...
Surrendered Child
A Birth Mother's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Surrendered Child is Karen Salyer McElmurray's raw, poignant account of her journey from her teen years, when she put her newborn child up for adoption, to adulthood and a desperate search for the son she never knew. In a patchwork narrative interwoven with dark memories from her childhood, McElmurray...
Parenting in the Eye of the Storm
The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Navigating the Teen Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Adult adoptee and family therapist Katie Naftzger shares her personal and professional wisdom in this guide to help adoptive parents remain a calm parental influence in the midst of stormy and erratic teen behavior. This guide describes the essential skills you need to help your adopted teen confidently...
by Christine Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
To find a solution, a person must first admit there is a problem. Taking Down the Wall is a chronicle of one womans journey to the painful and reluctant admission that there is indeed a problem, her refusal to let an old wound heal. The journey takes twists and unexpected turns but eventually arrives...
Figli senza madre
storia di un ragazzo nato da utero in affitto
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Questo nuovo racconto di Giuseppe Palma, seppur frutto della fantasia, si colloca in una cornice in cui la situazione generale è del tutto realistica, rispecchiando quanto si discute attualmente nel nostro Paese in tema di “utero in affitto”, ma anche – seppur solo indirettamente – di adozione...
Le ragioni degli altri
mediazione e famiglia tra conflitto e dialogo. Una prospettiva comparatistica ed interdisciplinare
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Il volume raccoglie diversi contributi, molti dei quali presentati in occasione di un ciclo biennale di incontri comparatistici, svoltisi presso l’Università degli Studi di Firenze ed organizzati dalla curatrice, con l’intento di proporre una visione critica ed interdisciplinare del tema della...
Adopted Teens Only
A Survival Guide to Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007
All adopted teens have questions-questions about their adoptive family, about their birth parents, and about how adoption has affected and will continue to affect their lives. But not every adopted teen knows how to approach these questions or how to handle the intense emotions and high stress often...