Adoption category: 683 books
Welcoming Strangers
Nonviolent Re-Parenting of Children in Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting" represents the complex task of...
Parenting Strategies to Help Adopted and Fostered Children with Their Behaviour
Trauma-Informed Guidance and Action Charts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Difficult behaviour in children with developmental trauma comes from a place of hurt. It is often confusing, unpredictable and painful both to the child and the people around them, and can be a form of self-protection or coping with deeply rooted fears and anxieties.
Traumatized children rarely...
by Susan Killeen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
A Faith-Based Study for Adoptive Parents who want to examine their story from a place of honesty and hope.
by Libby J. Atwater
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
“What Lies Within,” a riches to rags to reality memoir of the author's early life, evokes memories of a kinder, gentler time in America--the fifties. It takes us into the turbulent sixties when family secrets unravel the author's idyllic youth while the fabric of American life concurrently shreds....
Creating Compassionate Foster Care
Lessons of Hope from Children and Families in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
"Every child's way of being can open doors to wisdom, compassion, and human connection. We need only to listen."
This is among the conclusions that the authors, one of whom is an experienced foster parent and the other a professor of developmental psychology, draw as a result of working...
The Simple Guide to Understanding Shame in Children
What It Is, What Helps and How to Prevent Further Stress or Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
· What is shame?
· How does it affect children?
· How can adults help?
The perfect starting point for any adult or carer working with children who have experienced shame, this guide provides straightforward answers and explanations to both common and complex questions.
At a time when...
SMALL VOICES SILENCED
The Secret Society of Sacrificed Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Sherrie and her husband Darryl couldn’t be happier when they learn they’ll be adopting the two little girls they had been fostering. Then unexpectedly, everything changes.
The Clarks race against time to save their foster children, who are “positioned” to become sacrificial...
by Janice Daugharty
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
If you miss your grown children and think you'd like another chance to get it right, read this personal essay. Maybe you would like child-raising to be a little easier this go round--read "Real Dolls." Maybe you have a grandchild (or grandchildren) who you don't get to see that often--well,...
A Practical Guide to Fostering Law
Fostering Regulations, Child Care Law and the Youth Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A Practical Guide to Fostering Law is an accessible, jargon-free guide to the key elements of the law that concern foster carers and the professionals who work with them.
It aims to help foster carers understand where they fit into the complex web of regulations surrounding childcare and to...
Child Custody
Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. But now, in Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes, you’ll see that divorce is a chain reaction that begins in the courtrooms and branches...
by Harry James Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Adopted as an infant, Harry Hamilton spent the first six years of his life believing himself to be the true son of a proud and loving family, with a lineage of which any young boy would be proud. But in his seventh year, Harry’s world was shattered by the mindless words of a grandfather. The ensuing...
by Ahmad Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
"My children are my babies and if you can't accept them, then you can't accept me!" That is the common cry in most blended families in America today. Just because everyone is not biologically related under the same roof doesn't mean that there has to be a Civil War within the same household....
by Dan Kulp
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
“Dan and his wife put their money where their mouth is. We don’t need more people talking about Jesus, we need more people BEING Jesus. This book shows what that can look like in real time.”- Brad Stine, “God’s Comic”Children with special needs are not always given to those who...
The Return
When Child Protective Services Takes Your Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The challenges that children and families are difficult.. Moreover,And given the intake of children from the parents home and into the custody of the Department of Protective Services is just heartbreaking. And children return home: even if it's from child to adulthood and on their own terms. It happens...