Adoption category: 683 books
by Giselle Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Reason To Consider Adoption Will Assist You With Learning More About Adoptions and Open Adoptions, Rules and Laws, Adopting Relatives, Open Adoptions, Adoption of Step Children and How Do You Know If Adoption Is Right For You?
The Interracial Adoption Option
Creating a Family Across Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The perfect starting point for parents of transracially adopted children and those who are considering adopting transracially.
The Interracial Adoption Option is a personal guide to interracial adoption which draws on the lives and experiences of the authors, a white US couple, who adopt two...
Making Sense of Adoption
A Parent's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
When to tell, What to tell, and How to tell
Children who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate...
Parenting in Transracial Adoption: Real Questions and Real Answers
Real Questions and Real Answers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children identified as being of a different race, this book draws from real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after transracial adoption. Its goal: to help adoptive parents (and child welfare...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Want to have a baby? Yet you or your partner have difficulties? Well, adoption may be a solution.
It's very common for couples to adopt a baby nowadays. If you have decided carefully, then learn the pros and cons of adoption.
Having a baby is tough. Adoption makes it tougher. You and...
Mamalita
An Adoption Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
This gripping memoir details an ordinary American woman’s quest to adopt a baby girl from Guatemala in the face of overwhelming adversity. At only 32 years old, Jessica O’Dwyer experiences early menopause, seemingly ending her chances of becoming a mother. Years later, married but childless, she...
Can I tell you about Adoption?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Meet Chelsea - a young girl who was adopted. Chelsea invites you to learn about adoption from her perspective and introduces us to two friends of hers who were also transracially adopted. Chelsea and her friends help children understand what it means to be adopted, the experiences and challenges that...
Shameless
The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption.
Over twenty years...
Adopting
Real Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
"Who makes adoption a success? We do: the kids and parents in the new family as we change shape to accommodate each other."
With more than 70 real life stories, revealing moments of vulnerability and moments of joy, this book provides an authentic insight into adoption.
These...
Your Definitive Guide To A Smooth And Trouble-Free Adoption
Very Important Tips On The Adoption Process and Adoption Services So You Can Adopt A Child Without Difficulty And Without Any Hitches
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Adopting a child is quite commonly done nowadays. It is no longer a rare occurrence to find families that have at least one child in the family that is not biologically the parents’ own. Those who are in the know say that the good thing about adopting a child is that you can choose what kind of...
The International Adoption Handbook
How to Make Foreign Adoption Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
For anyone involved in, or thinking about, adopting a child from abroad, The International Adoption Handbook is an essential guide. The process of international adoption can sometimes seem complex, frustrating, and endless. This step-by-step guide, which provides the necessary hard facts and information...
Adoption Deception
A Personal and Professional Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Have you ever wondered how it might feel to have been adopted in Australia during the pre-1980s era in which vulnerable young mothers were coerced into relinquishing their babies? How it might feel to have grown up, become a social worker and worked with vulnerable children and families? This book...
He Knows Her Name
An Amazing Pursuit to Adopt From India
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
There are an estimated 20 million orphans in the country of India. Thanks to Kelly and Scott Parkison, that number has decreased by one. Having promised to never return to India after her experience on the reality show The Amazing Race, Kelly never dreamed she would one day be a mother to a beautiful...
by Elizabeth Ehlen, MSW LCS, Dewey Crepeau
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Are you thinking about adoption as a way to expand your family, but are utterly overwhelmed about where to start? Adoption Options: For Prospective Adoptive Parents breaks down the basic types of adoptions in the United States - public, private and international - and lists the pros and cons to each....