Adoption category: 683 books
Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court
Book One: the Cankered Rose and Esther's Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
The Cankered Rose and Esther's Revenge begins the author's dramatic journey of adopting his teenage daughter with severe attachment issues in Seattle. The heartbreak of then seeing Cordelia "stolen" by the efforts of his former wife and the child-welfare legal complex in Los Angeles, alongside...
Not Always Happy
An Unusual Parenting Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
There are many books in the market about giving birth to children with Down syndrome and how to raise them, but Not Always Happy adds a new dimension to this topic by focusing on the adoption of a child in foster care with Down syndrome by parents who married later in life.
One of only a few...
by Pauline Youd
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
Bereft of family and country during his crucial teen years, could Joseph be true to his upbringing? Would Moses, living in wealth and opportunity, even remember his family still in slavery? Living in the temple, would little Samuel choose to embrace the vacillating morality around him or to listen...
Understanding Child and Family Welfare
Statutory Responses to Children at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
How do workers around the world balance risk and support to ensure that their practice meets the ever-changing needs of children and their families?
Renowned authors Marie Connolly and Kate Morris join forces to explore the frameworks and ideas which have shaped contemporary child and family...
Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century
A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which became law in 1997, elicited a major shift in federal policy and thinking toward child welfare, emphasizing children's safety, permanency, and well-being over preserving biological ties at all costs. The first edition of this volume mapped the field...
by Patty Lo Tran
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
story about the adoption process of a dog and how he has brought color into the lives of the family that adopted him.
by Verda Koene Hanrahan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
A Nest for Our Russian Doll is a heartwarming book about a couples struggle with infertility and the eventual adoption of their daughter. This journey leads them halfway across the world to a village north of Moscow where they meet a small two-and-a-half-year-old child who had only known the orphanage...
Chasing Ghosts
not just An Adoption Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
All her life, Kamila had wanted to find her birth family. She hoped that retirement would give her the much needed time but a prognosis of incurable cancer put paid to that. They say curiosity kills the cat but not in Kamila’s case – it keeps her alive. As her own future shuts down, the past,...
The Traffic in Babies
Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces....
by Glenn Ernest
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This is the emotionally enriching and absolutely true story of two senior citizens, a young baby boy, an unusual governmental program that you probably have never heard of before, and an international adoption. It resulted in the father being charged with felonies in criminal court in one country,...
by Eric Odell-Hein
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
An adoptive father offers guidance, empathy, and encouragement to men considering adoption by sharing his journey through disappointment, reluctance, fear, and frustration to the ultimate triumph of finding his son.
The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing
How to Use Genetic Genealogy to Discover Your Long-Lost Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Reconnect with your roots! Adoptees, foundlings, and others with unknown parentage face unique challenges in researching their ancestors. Enter this book: a comprehensive guide to adoption genealogy that has the resources you need to find your family through genetic testing.
Inside, you'll...
An Empty Lap
One Couple's Journey to Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
"Joe and I had been forthright about children. I was pretty sure I wanted them, Joe was pretty sure he didn't. Since we each perceived in the other some room for movement, the difference didn't worry us. Then priorities shifted, needs changed...."
In her late thirties, journalist Jill Smolowe's life...
I Broke the Chain
"An American Dream" or The Perfect Lie?
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
When desperate family circumstances in Colombia send young Mari and her sisters to an orphanage for adoption, her biological family thought they would have a better life in America. However, no one could have anticipated the awful reality that awaited them, shattering all images of the American dream....