Adoption category: 683 books
by Mardie Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Do you feel that you are called to adopt a child?
Many Christian families, seeing the need to step forward in faith and raise a child not of their bodies, are choosing to learn more about the miracle of families created through adoption.
In her new book, adoption expert Mardie Caldwell...
Adopting a Toddler
What Size Shoes Does She Wear?
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
Finally, a childcare book written with the unique needs of adopted toddlers in mind. Written by an adoptive parent, Adopting A Toddler: What Size Shoes Does She Wear? is an indispensable guide to the wonderful world of toddler adoption. Filled with essential parenting information, Adopting a Toddler...
Fast Track Adoption
The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Baby
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Most couples in the U.S. have to wait up to seven years to adopt an infant domestically--and all the expense and waiting doesn't always result in a successful adoption. Now, rather than relying on slow-paced and expensive adoption agencies, many couples are choosing to privately adopt a child. By...
Adoption Joys
They Expected a Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
The softer side of the abortion debate In contrast to the front line war of words that emanate with most protest views, Doris takes us behind the scenes into real life drama. The stories contained in this book will make you smile, cry, and find a place in your heart for hurting people that are usually...
The ABA Consumer Guide to Adopting a Child
Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Adopting a child is an extraordinarily important decision. In this authoritative guide, adoption experts Robert and Jeffrey Kasky provide all the information needed to navigate the adoption process and to successfully adopt a child. The book discusses the various types of adoptions; alerts readers...
Adopting after Infertility
Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility.
Adopting after...
Making Room in Our Hearts
Keeping Family Ties through Open Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Adopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I? The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin....
by Gary Coles
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
This book is about the fathers of children who were raised in other adoptive families. Frequently in writings about the separation of parent and child the emphasis is on the mother and her son or daughter. The father is an absent or at best a peripheral figure. The Invisible Men of Adoption brings the...
by Barbara Yngvesson, Eleana J. Kim, Kay Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions occurred in the United States alone. While in an earlier era, adoption across borders was assumed to be straightforward—a child traveled to...
The Post-Adoption Blues
Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2004
Over 150,000 people adopt children each year, and more than 2 million parents are now raising adopted children and grandchildren. While the path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment, it's not without its bumps. This compassionate, illuminating, and ultimately uplifting...
A Life Let Go
A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
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....
Growing in the Dark
Adoption Secrecy and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
Generations of adults who were adopted as children have been kept in the dark about their original identities. The law sealing birth records, passed in 1935 in California during the Great Depression, swept adoptions emotional complexities under the rug and made it possible to keep adoption itself...
by Jacqui Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
When you decide to adopt, it's not if. It's when. You will need to figure out who your child is, what country you will adopt through, and how to share with your friends and family about your child-to-be.With candor, humor, and grace, Jacqui Jackson steps in as your Big Sister, helping you...
Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition
Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
In this completely revised and updated edition of Raising Adopted Children, Lois Melina, editor of Adopted Child newsletter and the mother of two children by adoption, draws on the latest research in psychology, sociology, and medicine to guide parents through all stages of their child's development....