Adoption category: 683 books
Adopted
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teenagers, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem. These feelings may be compounded by the isolation they feel because most friends and family members cannot fully relate to their...
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other
In Praise of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures...
by Catelynn Lowell, Tyler Baltierra
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Since Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra shared their story of teen pregnancy and adoption on the MTV's 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, they've been known for their inspiring commitment to growing up right. Between their experience placing their first daughter for adoption, and their struggle to cope...
Labor of the Heart
A Parent's Guide to the Decisions and Emotions in Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Adoptive parents often experience the double trial of emotional responses to infertility and to the process of adoption itself, called "excruciating labor with no end in sight," by one adoptive mother. Would-be adoptive parents cycle through grief, anger, fear, anxiety, frustration, and guilt-and...
by Holly Noseda
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
With 60,000 children in the care system and national child protection scandals hitting the headlines at an alarming rate, adoption and fostering are typical issues. It can be hard for prospective adopters and foster carers to get comprehensive, no-nonsense advice and guidance.
This book...
You Can Adopt
An Adoptive Families Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
From Adoptive Families magazine, the country’s leading resource on adoption, this warm, authoritative book is full of practical, realistic advice from leading attorneys, doctors, social workers, and psychologists, as well as honest, intimate stories from real parents and children. You Can Adopt...
by Dee Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Adopting a child is one of the most rewarding experiences of one's life. However, it is not an easy undertaking or one to be taken lightly. The process can be daunting. If you have ever wanted to adopt a child, you may be interested in this true story of adoption. Here is the account of the adoption of Daniel.
How I Met My Son
A Journey Through Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
'Honest, funny and, crucially, helpful to anyone who has ever had difficulty conceiving or considered adoption, this is required reading.' Emma Thompson
When journalist Rosalind Powell and her husband wanted to start a family, they had no idea of the journey that lay ahead. Encountering fertility...
Fearless Motherhood
The Road To Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
A small, emotionally charged look at one families choice to have a family when the odds were stacked against them.
When Sariah Fletcher and her husband discovered they would not be able to have biological children of their own, their dream of having a family of their own was shattered. What...
Birthmothers
Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Birthmothers presents intimate and stirring accounts of more than seventy women who surrendered babies for adoption. It follows their lives long-term, from discovery of their pregnancies through the present, and identifies the Birthmother Syndrome—a pattern of behavior and emotions resulting from...
My Family, A Symphony
A Memoir of Global Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Before Madonna and Angelina Jolie made international adoption fashionable, Aaron Eske grew up in rural Nebraska with four siblings his parents adopted from around the globe. Each one arrived with severe health issues: Meredith was born without toes and was never supposed to walk; Jamie weighed two...
Love You More
The Divine Surprise of Adopting My Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
A Stirring Memoir on Parenthood and the Invisible Threads that Bind Us to Those We Are Meant to Love
The obstacles, surprises, and moments of grace that Jennifer Grant experienced, working through the adoption process to bring home her daughter from Guatemala, forever changed her life.
Love...
In White America
Interracial Children and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Jessica Keebler, director of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions in 1955, faces an almost insurmountable crisis. Theres a logjam of unadoptable babies and a severe lack of adequate foster homes for these children. The crux of this issues rests with a statute in Californias adoption law stating...
by Sherrie Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? If you do, you are not alone - adoptees often experience complex feelings of grief, anger, and questions about their identity.
Sherrie Eldridge is an adoptee and adoption expert, and in this book she draws on her personal experiences...