Adoption category: 683 books
China's Hidden Children
Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China’s approach to population control, but...
Heartlines
The Year I Met My Other Mother
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
This is what happened the year I met my other mother.
In 1965, Robin, unmarried and pregnant, comes to Melbourne to give birth and give her baby up for adoption, then returns to Perth to resume her life having never seen her baby. After 10 days alone, the baby, is taken home, named Susannah,...
Adoption Detective
Memoir of an Adopted Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A passionate love affair between high school sweethearts creates an accidental pregnancy during a sultry night on the shore of Lake Michigan. Rebecca's unforgiving parents banish her to an unwed mother's home where she secretly gives birth to a baby girl. Her daughter Judy is placed in the loving...
The Russian Word for Snow
A True Story of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Janis Cooke Newman first saw the baby who would become her son on a videotape. He was 10 months old and naked, lying on a metal changing table while a woman in a white lab coat and a babushka tried to make him smile for the camera.
Four months later, the Newmans traveled to Moscow to get their...
God and Jetfire
Confessions of a Birth Mother
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoption
God and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek and her...
by Hannah Amos
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
You get married, go on honeymoon, get the white picket fence, fall pregnant, have babies and live happily ever after right? Well, apparently not. This is the TRUE STORY of a couple’s very real battle with childlessness and their endless efforts to make their dream of having a baby come true. With...
by Jennifer Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
There are Varying Views About Whether to Adopt a Child or Not. What is Your View of Adoption? Positive Light is Shed on Adoption to Enable You Take The Leap if You Desire to do so.
Preparing for Adoption
Everything Adopting Parents Need to Know About Preparations, Introductions and the First Few Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The ideal first book for prospective adopters.
When you decide to adopt a child, you might assume that all the important work begins when the child comes to live with you. In fact the preparation stage before is crucial in ensuring that the adopted child will arrive to a safe and secure family....
by Emily Hipchen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This memoir tells the story of two teenagers of different classes and ethnic backgrounds who meet by chance, fall in love, find their parents will not allow them to marry, and go off to college only to discover that they are going to have a child. She is spirited away to a home for unwed mothers,...
by Jill M Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
“My plan was simple. I would get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. However, life doesn’t always follow the path we plan for ourselves.” When Jill Murphy became pregnant at the age of seventeen, she was faced with some difficult decisions. Unsure of how to be the mother she knew...
The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine
A Guide for Physicians, Parents, and Providers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Since 1989, American families have adopted more than 230,000 children from other countries. Many of these children have lived in crowded conditions, sometimes with poor standards of hygiene, inadequate nutrition, and limited numbers of caregivers. Some suffer from endemic infectious diseases. Upon...
by Richard Oden
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This is a very unique story. I grew up in the foster care system in the state of Alabama until being adopted at age twelve. Eighteen years later my life came full circle as my wife and I officially became foster parents to three beautiful children. While they were in our care, I got deployed to Afghanistan...
by Debra Shiveley Welch
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Winner of FaithWriter's Gold Seal of Approval - Outstanding Read, Books&Authors Excellence in Literature, AllBooksReview's Editor's Choice Award 2010 and Book&Authors Best Non-Fiction 2010.
It would be easy to accept this book as 'another adoption story', that is until you read it....
by Alisa R. Engleman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
With This Practical Guide To Russian Adoption, African Adoption, Adopting Children, Adopted For Life, Adopting The Hurt Child