Adoption category: 683 books
by Patrice Gendelman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
A book about adoption
Butterflies in the Wind
The Truth About Latin American Adoptions
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
The book chronicles not only the adoption of their three children abroad, but follows each of their children (including their biological son) into young adulthood. It vividly depicts their difficulties in raising teenagers in a cross-cultural, transracial home, and also exposes the frightening conditions...
Reflections on Adoptive Parenting
by a Grateful Recovering Know-It-All
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
At the age of 38, the author and her husband adopted an 11 year old boy. During the early years of their life together, the author wrote short vignettes about moments that challenged her assumptions about parenting. Many of the vignettes are reflections on ironic discrepancies between actually...
by Malinda Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
“This Is Mine: My Story, My Life” by Malinda PhillipsContributions by Helen Ramaglia, Jesse DeLuna, Leroy Berrones-Soto, Jr., Rev. Marie Smith, “Marija Sophia”, “Missy Jay”, “Nikki J”, Phyllis Amalfitano Kessler Guilmette Thompson, “Sheniqua”, ShirleyAlexis JohnsonBrady, and Tenisha...
One Small Boat
The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
This story of one little girl's journey through our foster-care system forms an intimate portrait of foster care in America and the children whose lives are forever shaped by it.
Augusten Burroughs called Kathy Harrison's memoir Another Place at the Table a "riveting and profoundly moving story...
by Bethany M. Gardiner, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
No Panic! How to Adopt an Older Child is a practical, hands-on guide, navigating readers through the sometimes complicated process of adopting an older child, from inception of the idea through to a final transformation into a happy, forever family. Covering topics such as how and when to decide to...
Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children, Second Edition
A Family Friendly Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
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.
Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book...
Bald, Fat & Crazy
How I Beat Cancer While Pregnant with One Daughter and Adopting Another
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Stephanie Hosford has a big decision to make. For her 20-year high school reunion, how should she style her hair? Little does she know, in a few months it won't matter - she'll be bald. And huge. What woman wouldn't go a little crazy? After receiving a cancer diagnosis and a positive pregnancy test...
by Dr. Sheri Pickover, PhD, Heather Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Includes treatment issues not covered elsewhere
This one-of-a-kind resource for mental health professionals in multiple settings is a comprehensive guide to treatment issues unique to children and families who have a relationship with the foster care system. With a focus on understanding how...
Getting to Baby
Creating your Family Faster, Easier and Less Expensive through Fertility, Adoption, or Surrogacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Creating a family in the 21st Century presents certain challenges: career couples are waiting longer and discovering infertility issues and gay & lesbian couples are becoming parents through various methods. The authors share their 5 year story, struggles, and success of creating a family. This...
by Sue Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Breaking new ground in the areas of attachment and child development, Sue Jennings introduces the concept of 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play' exploring the sensory experiences that take place between mother and child during pregnancy and the first few months after birth. She explains how this interaction, that...
Second Time Foster Child
One Family's Fight for Their Son's Mental Healthcare and Preservation of Their Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“Toni walks us through the experience of having foster children with undiagnosed mental illness . . . moving and heart-wrenching” (Marcia Stein, PHR, CA, author of Strained Relations).
As an infant, Daniel entered the foster care system as a result of severe neglect, which manifested in...
by Jane Eales
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs by Jane Eales
A simple need for her birth certificate leads Jane, aged 19, to a devastating secret: she was adopted as a five-week old baby in London in 1947. Stunned, Jane is sworn to secrecy and forbidden to search for her biological family - a promise she...
by Jeanne Biedrzyck, Karen Sweet, Lewis M. Elia
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
Jeanne is sixteen years old and is forced to give up her baby girl for adoption. She never gets to see or hold her but she never forgets. And so begins a journey, a search for a lost child which will last thirty years. Join these two women on a spiritual journey as they learn the meaning of family...