Adoption category: 683 books
White Parents, Black Children
Experiencing Transracial Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptions—particularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethnic groups. Despite the long history of troubled and fragile race relations in the United States, some people believe the...
Life Story Books for Adopted Children
A Family Friendly Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life. This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense...
In Their Parents' Voices
Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners,...
In Their Siblings’ Voices
White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their...
by Bonnie Tinsley
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Mother Teresa looked tired, doing her best to greet the swarm of people around her. Finally, it was like the sea parted and we were in her arms. I felt I had known her all my life. Her presence was so immediate, so focused. She made us feel totally welcome. She held my hand as I pled our case.
“We...
by Jane Gilgun
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
This survey is for prospective adoption parents who are considering adopting children children with special needs. Children with special needs have experienced adversities, such as abuse, neglect, and abandonment, or may have neurological, psychological, and behavioral issues that require special...
Our Own
Adopting and Parenting the Older Child
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Based on the author's experiences as an adoptive mother and foster parent, as well as interviews with numerous adoptive families, adoption professionals and adults who were adopted, Our Own thoroughly explores both the joys and the challenges of older child adoption. Suitable for families adopting...
Forever Mom
What to Expect When You're Adopting
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
What to do when you’ve been called to adopt and practical advice to make it work
Mary Ostyn married her sweetheart at nineteen, and the pair had four kids by their eighth anniversary. When their youngest was three, God opened their eyes to the needs of orphans all over the world—and answered...
Wounded at Birth?
My Struggle to Understand My Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On July 22, 1989, John and Gwyn Nursall adopted a baby girl at a Calgary hospital. While growing up, their daughter, Kim, now a reporter at the Toronto Star, didn't think much about her history. Then she began to explore her feelings, and two years ago, her biological father got in touch. In the candid,...
Searching for the Castle
Backtrail of an Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Like cowboys turning in the saddle to look at where they came from, Searching for the Castle documents the backtrail of author Barbara Leigh Ohrstroms adoption. It begins with her urgency as an eighteen-year-old woman initiating her search for her birth parents. Her recollection includes court petitions,...
by ViAnn Prestwich
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2016
When this brother and sister knelt down to arm-wrestle more than a decade ago, there was no racial tension between the two. She was a cocky, 16-year-old, blond basketball player who lifted weights. He was a skinny tween who didn’t think his sister could beat him. This was a brother and sister contest...
The Place of Peace and Crickets
How adoption, heartache and love built a family
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
When journalist Tricia Booker and her husband had trouble conceiving, they followed the well-worn footsteps of couples exploring in-vitro fertilization. Two years and thousands of dollars later, they decided to have a long fulfilling life - without children.
Instead, they became immersed in...
Golden Strangers
An Adoption Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2012
Maria Kelmis was adopted from Greece at the age of fifteen months. She always knew she was adopted and considers it one of the best things that happened in her life. Golden Strangers is a story about a journey to find her biological mother specifically to thank her and tell her that she had a wonderful...
Adopting Older Children
A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Children Over Age Four
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Are you thinking of adopting an older child? There are 200,000 plus hoping for families in the U.S. alone and more worldwide. Adopting an older child, though, presents a unique set of parenting issues as well as rewards.
Adopting Older Children highlights the most significant challenges when...