Adoption category: 683 books
by Venice Kichura
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Preparing for adoption involves more than setting up a nursery. It also means learning how to be more sensitive to the needs of adoptees so adoptive parents can be better prepared when their adopted children deal with emotional issues concerning their adoption. Besides addressing thoughtless comments...
by Elisabeth O'Toole
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
In On It is the book for the grandparents and best friends, colleagues and neighbors, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of contemporary adoptive families. It offers advice, information and insights into contemporary adoption -- especially for readers who are not themselves adoptive parents....
Not by Nature but by Grace
Forming Families through Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book examines the relation between two ways of forming families—through nature (by procreation) and through history (by adoption). Christians honor the biological tie between parents and children, for it is the work of God in creation. Yet...
by Niki Breeser Tschirgi
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Beginning with infertility and one couple’s struggle with building their family, Stretch-mark My Heart dives headlong into the fragmented world of the US foster care system. Following the adoption journey of Matt and Niki Tschirgi (pronounced Sure-Gee), this book lays the groundwork from start to...
The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!The adult parties...
The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption
Everything You Need to Know About Domestic and International Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
So you've made the decision to adopt. What's next? For starters, how do you know whether domestic or international adoption is right for you? (And what are the real differences between the two?) Adoption insider Elizabeth Swire Falker answers these questions and many more. As an attorney who practices...
The Complete Book of International Adoption
A Step by Step Guide to Finding Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The go-to guide for everything you want to know about international adoption
From the initial decision—Is adoption right for you?—through returning home with your child—How can you ease the transition?—The Complete Book of International Adoption takes parents step by step through the...
by Monica Sawyer-Hess
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The Truth About International Adoption, Same Sex Adoption, Adoption Records, Tran Racial Adoption, Closed Adoption, Typical Open Adoption and Putting Your Child Up For Adoption Plus Much More!
by Regina Radomski
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The number of older-child adoptions is on the rise. In fact, of the nearly 8,700 international adoptions that took place last year, more than half were between the ages of 1 and 4, and nearly a quarter were between the ages of 5 and 12. This new image of adoption—due in large part to the 2008 ratification...
The Adoption Experience
Families Who Give Children a Second Chance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
This is a book of real life stories of adopters which takes the reader through every stage of the adoption process starting with the moment when they decide that adoption is the right option for them to the stories of adoptees brought up by adoptive parents.
In between, the book looks at all...
Birthmarks
Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Can White parents teach their Black children African American culture and history? Can they impart to them the survival skills necessary to survive in the racially stratified United States? Concerns over racial identity have been at the center of controversies over transracial adoption since the 1970s,...
The Family of Adoption
Completely Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, now revised in light of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness in adoption. Joyce Maguire Pavao uses her thirty years of experience as a family and adoption...
by Patricia J Florin
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption. These women tell how they experienced unplanned pregnancy in the restrictiveness of the last decades of the twentieth century....
Adoption Nation
How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families -- and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
With compassion for adopted individuals and adoptive and birth parents alike, Adam Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity, equality,...