Adoption category: 683 books

Long Story Short: Year of the Water Goat is a must read for anyone who has or is considering adopted internationally, especially from China. Columnist Jan Risher believes one of the most important aspects of international adoption is the embracing of a new culture and country for the adopting family...

**TV presenter, bestselling author and psychologist Nigel Latta gives common-sense and amusing answers to the complex issues surrounding today's family in its many and varied forms.**Utilising both the best current research about stepfamilies and over two decades of clinical experience, Nigel traverses...

"The Names of My Mothers" is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and travelled to Our Lady of Victory,...

Though fiction, Coffey’s stories are rooted in the author’s experiences with marriage, fatherhood, adoption, and his revelation that, unlike his adoptive parents (a corrections officer and registered nurse in upstate New York), he turned out to be very much like his biological parents, two Irish...

A special-needs baby girl is rescued from the Abandoned Children’s Ward in Bangkok, Thailand and placed with an American foster family. Nicknamed Pooh, the fourteen-month-old blossoms under the care and attention lavished on her. Allowed to thrive at last, Pooh masters several developmental milestones,...

This anthology is a poignant reminder of a time when the unmarried mother was stigmatised as a "fallen woman". Her child was illegitimate and in they eyes of society, illegitimacy was tantamount to criminality. Forty, fifty, sixty years later some of those unmarried mothers have written...

This remarkable book joins the company of “self-work,” deep acts of memory that serve to illuminate the present by shining the clear light of careful regard on the past. The book finds company in the work of D J Waldie’s Holy Land, Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and the profound My Struggle...

From the early stages of the adoption process to bringing the child back home, this collection of personal stories reveals why parents who have adopted children from China feel - despite the challenges they've endured - truly lucky. In one account, a woman contemplates her daughter's lost heritage...

Darby found himself in the city pound waiting a certain fate. When a local rescue dog group saved him, and placed Darby in a foster home. For several months Darby’s hopes were, a family would adopt him. Christmas was just around the corner. While Darby waited, a single mother and a six year old...

Two young teenagers meet and fall in love in working class Nottingham, England in 1963. They live through the trials and tribulations of surrendering a child to adoption. They later marry and seven years after their first meeting they immigrate to Ontario, Canada, and this book covers the period of their lives from their first meeting to migrating west to Alberta in 1978 with two children.

Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of...

Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services. Based on the largest...

Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond - whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how...

If you are thinking of becoming a gay dad ─ or if you are already a gay dad ─ this book is for you! ---------- Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would...