Adoption category: 683 books
by Tedd A. Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The power of love can save a life…One rainy night on the Zambian savannah, a mother’s heart moves the hand of God. From a land laid waste by disease and drought emerges this incredible story of courage, suffering, and the ultimate triumph of the power of God’s love. This is the true story of...
Faith & Foster Care
How We Impact God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Filled with personal stories and Scripture, Faith & Foster Care shows how to practically and specifically live out your faith in foster care ministry. An encouraging resource for novice or experienced advocates and parents, specific issues addressed include advice on marriage and foster care,...
by Mary R. Rapshaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
BECOME A FOSTER PARENT A mom, dad, house and dog do not make a home. Everyday, there are children who experience this sad fact when they are removed from their home due to neglect or abuse. Not every foster child has a foster family. In some regions, foster children must wait for long periods of time...
The Girl and the Ghosts Free Sampler
The true story of a haunted little girl and the foster carer who rescued her from the past
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The Girl and the Ghosts can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.
This is PART 1 of 3.
Author Angela Hart is an experienced foster carer; The Girl and the Ghosts is the moving true story of her experience fostering one little girl with a heavy burden to...
Welcome to Fostering
A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.
Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise...
Keeping Foster Children Safe Online
Positive Strategies to Prevent Cyberbullying, Inappropriate Contact, and Other Digital Dangers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Foster children are more likely than other children to be involved in risky activities online due to backgrounds of neglect and abuse, an absence of supportive adults, lower self-esteem, and greater exposure to drugs and alcohol.
Covering all the dangers of online technology that your foster...
Helping Foster Children In School
A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.
Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior...
by John DeGarmo
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Foster parenting is often seen as a calling and a mission of love. At the same time, foster parenting can be both very difficult and exhausting. When caring for children who have suffered abuse, neglect, and traumas, foster parents face their own set of unique challenges each day.
The Foster...
The Baby Chase
How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love comes a riveting new narrative about surrogate pregnancy from both sides of the equation—the parents and the gestational carrier.
Once considered a desperate, even morally suspect option, surrogacy is now sweeping headlines, transforming...
You Are Not Alone
A Book of Hope for Parents Dealing with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
You Are Not Alone is a book of hope and contains a series of meditations based on scripture that were written for parents of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). While intended for that specific audience, the message is also useful for all who find themselves in difficult relationships.Based...
by Cathy Bonnstetter
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
When families make the decision to adopt overseas they often think the big challenges come with the administrative processes. Those are huge challenges, but even bigger ones and the amazing awards come when that child, who has been just a thought, finally comes home. In this book, several families discuss that all important first year they were "learning to love a stranger."
by Ky Owen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
None Call Me Dad is the true, mesmerizing story of a 21st Century dad. On two weeks notice, Ky Owen becomes an adoptive father to a six-year-old son. Five years later, on two days notice, he becomes a father to a teenage daughter. Along the way he assumes the role of father figure to four other kids....
Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care
A Model for Integrated Therapeutic Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
How can professionals work together with foster carers to create stable and therapeutic foster placements?
Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care describes a unique model of supporting children in care which involves foster carers and professionals working together in the best interests...
by Kristy M Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Thats why we call her mommy, is a story about why someone is called Mommy. It describes how and why it is a term of endearment rather than a title. To have a mommy, doesnt only mean having a birth mom. It can include foster moms, adoptive moms, step moms, etc.. It teaches that as long as someone loves...