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I will never forget the little ones I held, rocked, and played with. I will never forget the despair and hopelessness I’ve seen, felt, and heard. I will never forget the little band of Christians there striving to exist in a harsh, corrupt environment. I will never forget the India I experienced because the eyes and smiles of the kids traveled home with me, in my heart. By the Same Author: Max’s Adoption (2000) and Bringing Our Angel Home (2002). |
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This book is full of the techniques that we have used successfully with our children over the years. Many we have adapted to suit their needs; others we have developed ourselves. What we have become particularly good at is not giving up! Celia Foster, mother of two adopted children, has written Big Steps for Little People as a personal “insider’s guide” to parenting adopted children. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom gained through her own experiences of the adoption process and beyond, Celia offers a thoughtful account of life with adopted children and examines the issues that many families encounter, including the development of children with attachment problems and how to tackle behavioral difficulties. She combines real-life anecdotes with suggestions and strategies that other parents can put to use. This book offers support to all adoptive families and offers insights for the professionals who work with them. About the Author: Celia Foster lives in the UK and is mother of two adopted sons. |
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The author sold the family house and moved across the valley to a rambling Victorian mansion after she read these words in Isaiah, “Enlarge the limits of your home. Spread wide the curtains of your tent. Let out its ropes to the full and drive the pegs home.” It took four months furnishing with cast-offs from relatives and friends. The followed the mortifying experience of being vetted as foster parents with all faults and frailties on view. This is the story of what happened next. |
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A true story, of an adoption and the love for a child. When you love a child no matter where they come from. We will always love them as our own. Every once and a while, a child comes into our lives with a profound impact. A reader can’t help to become absorbed with the many characters in this story of adoption and its laws. One law should be with all the courts and judges and not different laws from state to state or from county to county in one state. About the Author: I’m a thirty-six-year-old woman, who just wants a family. My husband had two surgeries so we might get pregnant. But this never happened for us. So when we were approached on adoption we thought this might be the way for us to have a family. I live in New Hampshire in a big house that we love and hope to fill with children some day. We also have forty acres of land to go with our lovely home. During the weekdays, I run a daycare out of my home. This is my passion. I love children. I would do anything for any one of my daycare kids. These children are our future. So I do what I can for them to help stay on the right road. The only other thing we need is a family to love and give all we can. I think we have a lot to offer a child. Like a good home and all the love we have inside us. And maybe the best education we can afford. |
Birthrites offers practical advice for potential parents. However, rather than concentrating solely on pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, this book also explores “Becoming a Father,” “Adoption,” and “Miscarriage” (to name but a few). Jackie Singer emphasizes the importance of ritual and ceremony in marking life-changing events, and sharing this experience with others. The suggested ceremonies are varied in nature, ensuring wide-ranging appeal. Some simply involve quiet contemplation, whereas others incorporate a specific activity. Throughout the book, Singer emphasizes the individuality and adaptability of ceremony; nothing is set in stone. The author’s personal experiences are interspersed with quotes and real-life accounts. Singer provides reassurance and support in this relaxed, friendly guide and achieves a considered balance between practicality and sensitivity. Birthrites identifies an ancient facet of human activity forgotten by some of us and overlooked by many. Far too often in modern life, the importance of pausing for thought is disregarded. |
The account of a British family’s trip to China to adopt a baby boy. |
Ashley Wells has answered this question countless times. Ashley, and her husband Michael, were licensed to accept a placement of up to four children aged eight and younger into their home through their local foster care system. They didn’t realize these parameters would exactly describe the children God would bring into their lives. In April 2012, after ninety minutes to prepare, Ashley and Michael became the parents of an eight-year-old boy, five-year-old girl, thirteen-month-old girl, and a two-and-a-half-week-old baby boy. Their journey included the typical “roller coaster” ride of emotions and setbacks, yet through God’s grace they persevered in the journey. On November 22, 2013, Michael and Ashley welcomed these four children into their family forever through adoption. |
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Isn’t it time Christians stopped heeding the dire predictions of population planners and high tech physicians and listened for the still, small voice of God? In Blessed Events couples vividly describe the varied paths that can lead to parenthood. What has infertility meant for the men and women who have experienced it? How do parents who already have their hands full handle the news of another pregnancy? How does God equip a family to live with a child with a handicap? Does the Bible speak today about the issues of infertility, family size, and adoption? Against the odds, prayers have been answered and families lovingly constructed by the hand of God. Through personal accounts and Scriptural references, this book presents a holy celebration of new life according to those who have received God’s provision firsthand. About the Author: Debra Evans is a certified childbirth educator and lactation consultant with a degree in reproductive health. She is also a wife, mother, and family advocate. Author of six Crossway books affirming womanhood, she most recently wrote Without Moral Limits, a critique of the new reproductive technologies being used to exploit women. |
Who among your circle of friends or family has not been caught up in one or more of these dilemmas: family problems, a difficult choice between an abortion or adoption, an unjust legal system or loss of career, drugs or alcohol dependency, a religious identity crisis or thoughts of suicide? Perhaps someone you know is a Holocaust victim or their descendant, or been touched by assimilation problems. It is all here, in a compelling saga, based on the lives of two Jewish families that converge over an adopted child. A sealed adoption agreement is breached, and the birth-mother and adoptive-mother are forced to confront each other’s complicated histories. Spanning seventy years and two continents, the tragedies and triumphs of both families are woven together, ultimately leading to redemption. In recent years there have been a number of books written by a birth-mother forced to give up her child or by the adopted child reuniting with her biological parents. This book is unique. The Blessing and the Curse is written from my point of view, as the adoptive-mother, with the cooperation of the birth-mother and her family. It cracks open the façade of family life, digging deeper into who we are and why. Nothing happens in a vacuum. This saga poignantly reveals the ups and downs, the real life dramas, that funnel our choices and defines who we are. |
In Blessings from China, author Roberta Diggs takes you on a journey halfway around the world on her mission to rescue two abandoned girls. You will laugh and cry as you follow the moving experience of two first-time parents in their forties. A poignant memoir about the reality of adoption, spiced with humor and the blessings of God. Blessings from China is sure to warm your heart and inspire your soul. |
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In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision—what to do with such knowledge—Gessen investigated the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. Blood Matters is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is shaping the decisions we make, not only about our physical and emotional health but about whom we marry, the children we bear, even the personality traits we long to have. And it helps us come to terms with the radical transformation that genetic information is engineering in our most basic sense of who we are and what we might become. About the Author: Masha Gessen is a journalist who has written for Slate, Seed, the New Republic, the New York Times, and other publications, and is the author of two previous books. She lives in Moscow. |
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving. About the Author: Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and eight previous books of nonfiction. Her collected nonfiction, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, was published by Everyman’s Library in 2006. |
Born in Kansk Russia, Alexei Damiovovich was thrown out of a window on a frigid Siberian night. He was 22 months old. Neighbors found him and took him to the local orphanage where he lived until we arrived to bring him home to America. Adoption is not an easy process. Adjusting to a new member of the family is equally as hard. Add to that the special needs of that child and you have chaos. This story is about my son’s adoption process and his journey to become a productive member of society. Alexei’s journey has not been an easy one, but it has had its lighter moments. This story is my attempt to capture the most memorable moments of the twelve years he has been with us. Alexei will get a certificate of completion from high school in 2008. Then he begins another journey. — Mary Beth Mohr |
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On March 24, 2001, American writer Kari Grady Grossman entered a crowded orphanage outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and met her 8-month-old son. One of the first questions Kari asked was “How did he get here?” The complex and at times heart-wrenching answer is told in this magnificent book encompasses Kari’s personal journey to adoption, Cambodia’s gruesome history of war and genocide, and the stories of two Cambodians—one who escaped the Khmer Rouge’s bloody reign and one who did not. The interweaving stories grab your heartstrings and do not let go. From the moment Kari realizes that she will never be an “earth momma” practicing prenatal yoga to years later as Kari wends her way on the back of a moto-taxi through Phnom Penh’s smog-choked streets trying to make a difference in her son’s birth nation, you can’t read impassively. Bones That Float takes you into the Khmer Rouge jungle where boy soldiers force starving families to labor all day at gunpoint, and it brings you to modern-day Phnom Penh streets where foreign pedophiles purchase the innocence of preteen Cambodian girls. But ultimately Bones That Float—a Cambodian phrase for the sacred that rises above the suffering—is a tale of hope. Kari reminds us that our world is “one big family” and that we cannot—or dare not—turn our backs on people who suffer in part because of our country’s own foreign policy missteps. To read Bones That Float is to open your heart to caring. About the Author: Kari Grady Grossman has spent nearly two decades traveling, writing, and producing documentaries. Her writing has appeared on Discovery Channel Online, including cover age of a Mount Everest expedition and the Alaskan Iditarod. After traveling to Cambodia in 2001 to adopt their son, the Grossmans created the Grady Grossman School. Proceeds from this book will support the school, which now educates nearly 500 children a year. In 2006, she and her husband traveled to India to adopt their second child. A book on that country is forthcoming. The author is a 1990 graduate from Syracuse University and resides in Fort Collins, Colorado. |
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She always gets the last laugh—usually at her husband’s expense. I do try to be considerate. Some years ago when we had a 12-seater van and about ten school-age children plus several preschoolers, I thought with all those kids underfoot, Bonnie really ought to have a vacation, lest she get burned out. I said to her “Bonnie, you’re getting burned out. You really need some relaxation. You need a little rest. Why don’t I watch things here at the house, you throw a few things into the van that you might need for a few days—Take the kids and go.” This is a story about a serene, mysterious, and slightly eccentric woman—and her slogging, well-intentioned husband. She knows her husband is totally enchanted with her, and she blithely takes advantage. He bears his scars reasonably well. Both of them were profoundly influenced by their 21 children, who came from a dozen different cultural backgrounds. About the Author: Fred Cappuccino, born in 1926, was a professional musician for eleven years as an autoharpist at a geriatric wing of a hospital in Cornwall, Ontario. One day he was entertaining patients, strumming autoharp chords and singing his heart out with Beautiful Dreamer, wake unto me, when suddenly one dear sister screeched, “Will someone PLEASE let that cat out!” Fred’s musical career deteriorated somewhat from that point. He is a retired Unitarian minister, having served ten congregations in his long ministry. The first ones were Methodist, followed by Unitarian. He had to leave three of them due to illness—the people were sick of him. Fred is the highly respected author of the quarterly “Bonnie Lore” column in the Child Haven International newsletter, the most eminent, erudite and educational newsletter in Canada. |
Motherhood is defined by what happens after the baby is born. And motherhood never ends, even after that final breath is taken, living on in the memories and legacies left behind. In his book, you’ll find many stories that define motherhood from a wide variety of viewpoints, as told by moms and their children, throughout this country. These stories will make you laugh and cry, some poignant, others a self-reflective journey of growth and discovery. These are brave stories told with strong voices, some with their faith held firmly as their shield; while others bare their souls, some, still raw to the touch. It is amazing, to me, that the words written, carry the richness of an experience that not one writer regrets. Even those moments of pain appear to serve the holder, to carry forward the lessons of life, of love and of hope. We are proud to present these new authors to you. Revel in their life tales and in your own. Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, “Why Can’t I Have a Baby” by Wendy Bernards (A couple’s journey through infertility and the heartbreak of a broken adoption); and “I Know Your Name is Carol” by Maureen Karamales (A letter of love written by an adopted child, now grown, to her birth mother). |
From the Publisher:
Presented here are fiction and nonfiction books—from folklore to poetry—focusing on separation and loss themes for young people. Highly selective, the guide profiles only “classic” and recommended titles from School Library Journal, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, The Horn Book, The Bookfinder, and other publications. Arranged by topic, each annotated entry provides a review of plot and theme, interest/reading level, suggestions for use, and full bibliographic information. Issues include Homelessness, Economic Loss/Parents Out of Work, and Race Relations. This is the ideal reference guide for those who have the opportunity to help children facing tough personal roadblocks, ranging from going away to camp to the death of a sibling. Compiler’s Note: Experiences of separation and loss are not unique to adopted children, but they nevertheless have their own specific issues, and so the author devotes one section specifically to adoption-related books, necessarily listing only a limited number of titles: 20 in the initial volume; 25 in the second edition; 17 in “Volume 3”; and 19 in the 4th edition. Fortunately, there is little repetition, and so each edition has its own unique set of titles, largely encompassing newer books published in the interim since publication of the last prior volume. In any event, the thing I noticed most in a cursory review is the choices made by the author(s) regarding which volumes they consider most relevant to the issues of “separation and loss,” not all of which seem to me to be logical or obvious. |
Born in Africa, Conceived in Heaven is the story of one man’s journey to fatherhood, a journey that took Dan to many unexpected places and experiences that stretched him as a person, a husband and a Christian. Dan readily admits that there were many times he “could not see the path forward.” If not for a profound sense that God was calling so directly to adopt John and Nya, Dan says the only logical thing to do would have been to give up. Praise God that we walk by faith and not by logic alone. If you are a Christian, regardless of your Church, you’ll enjoy Dan’s search for God’s will in the midst of his family’s search to be a family. If you are not a believer, you’ll be surprised at the organic rather than didactic manner in which Dan searches for and finds the role of God in his journey. Dan’s original intention was to write this for his children. They are the primary audience in this series of journal entries. John and Nya, this is really your book. Thanks for sharing it with the world! |
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Whether you are thinking about adoption, you were adopted yourself, or you are at any point along the adoption journey, Born in Our Hearts will touch your soul and make you believe in the transformative power of hope and destiny. Compiled by a mother and daughter who were brought together by adoption comes this inspiring collection of true stories that weave a rich tapestry of the experience from many perspectives: birth mothers who courageously gave their children to others to raise but kept them forever in their hearts; adoptive parents eager to meet their perfect child; and adult adopted children whose lives were brightened by becoming part of a family. These stories will tug at your heart and remind you that, challenges aside, the adoption experience brings immeasurable joy and renewed meaning to life. About the Author: As founder and executive director of The Alliance for Children adoption agency, Filis Casey has contributed to the formation of nearly 5,000 new families. Marisa Casey is working on a documentary film, The Colombia Project: Two Stories of Adoption. |
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Craig Juntunen appeared to have it all. He sold his company at the age of 40, and set out to live the good life of retirement. But he soon began to feel something was lacking. When a friend told him the story of adopting two girls from Haiti, Craig’s emptiness gave way to a sense of adventure. On a trip to the desperate Third World nation, a country wracked by poverty, corruption and kidnappings, his self-serving lifestyle began a very profound transformation. At an orphanage outside of Port-Au-Prince Craig encountered Espie, Amelec and Quinn. Even after decades of table-pounding declarations he would never have children, at 51 Craig became a dad. This inspirational story of an unexpected journey and personal transformation will say many things to different people. But for all it delivers a powerful reminder of our responsibility to reach out and be there for kids. About the Author: Craig Juntunen’s life experience can be broken into three distinct eras ... In his early life he was involved heavily in athletics, playing quarterback for a total of 14 seasons. He finished his athletic career as a quarterback in the Canadian Football League. He was elected into the State of Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame and the University of Idaho Hall of Fame. His experience as a leader on the football field led to his developing into an entrepreneur. He successfully built and sold a company with a very successful track record and temporarily retired. His experience as a quarterback and as an entrepreneur blended together to form philanthropic passions. He has been involved in many charitable giving efforts, and until recently his most notable achievement was launching the Chances for Children foundation. In May 2010 he started the Both Ends Burning Campaign, a project to change the landscape of international adoption. He and his wife Kathi live in Scottsdale, Arizona with their three children, Amelec, Espie and Quinn. Craig is a recognized expert on international adoption and a frequently sought out public speaker. |
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In 1977, the plight of David Lopez, a small Peruvian Indian child, touched the hearts of thousands when he arrived in the United Kingdom. Through a disease contracted in babyhood, he had a terribly deformed face; reconstruction, if it could be done at all, would require sophisticated and expensive treatment spread over a series of years—treatment which could not be carried out in Peru. Ian Jackson, the eminent plastic surgeon from Glasgow, had been visiting Peru; when asked to help he could not refuse, but the National Health system of course could not pay for the treatment. David’s story is unique but could not stand as an example of all handicapped children. If others like him could find guardian angels possessed of the humanity, compassion, love and single-minded persistence of Marjorie Jackson, their world would be a happier one. Jackson and his wife, the author, adopted David 1984, but not before returning to Peru to search for this family and place of birth. |
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RUSSIA 1990: A boy named Vanya, afflicted with cerebral palsy, is born prematurely. Eighteen months later, he is abandoned by his mother and sent to a bleak orphanage: called Baby House 10. And so the nightmare begins... This is the story of John Lahutsky, the boy from Baby House 10, whose childhood—but not his will to survive—was cruelly taken away from him. Once inside the state-run orphanage, he entered a nightmare world he was not to leave for more than eight years. Confined to one room with a group of silent children, he was ignored by most of the staff and labeled an “imbecile” and “ineducable” by the authorities. He was consigned, for a time, to a mental asylum, where he lived in a high-sided, iron-barred crib, lying in a pool of his own waste, on a locked ward surrounded by screaming children and psychotic adults. But even these dire surroundings didn’t destroy the spirit of this remarkable little boy. Vanya grew into an intellectually curious, verbally complex youngster who reached out to everyone around him. The first person he touched was a young Russian woman named Vika. The second was Sarah, the wife of a British journalist who was living in Russia. They both knew instantly that Vanya was no ordinary child and had been cruelly misdiagnosed. Immediately, they began a campaign to find him a home. After many twists, turns, and false starts, Vanya came to the attention of a single woman living in the United States named Paula Lahutsky. After a lot of red tape and more than one miracle, Paula adopted Vanya, brought him to the United States, and gave him a home of his own. It was there, in his new home, in a different country, that Vanya started his new life and embraced a new name—John—the English translation of Vanya. John Lahutsky is now an honor-roll student at Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and a member of both the Boy Scouts of America and the Order of the Arrow, the BSA’s national honor society. In The Boy from Baby House 10, Alan Philps helps John Lahutsky tell his story, the inspiring true-life saga of a small boy with a big heart and an unquenchable will to survive that will be an inspiration to everyone who reads it. About the Author: Alan Philps is an experienced foreign correspondent who has worked for Reuters and The Daily Telegraph, UK. He lives in London with his wife, Sarah. John Lahutsky is a high school student who lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with his mother. |
Relationships between two adults and between parents and their children are common; this story is about the growing relationship between a young librarian and a totally dysfunctional eleven-year-old boy. The child’s resistance to anything educational, and the way in which the librarian gradually tries to change the boy’s mindset, form the backbone of the story, but also important is the growing affection between man and boy, culminating in a private fostering arrangement. Alongside the main theme, the librarian has problems at work and in his love life. At the start of the novel he is suffering from the split with his partner but starts to date another woman about whom he has doubts about her sexual proclivities. When that affair ends he meets a divorcee, and they start to live together creating a new set of relationship problems between the three of them. |
“We’re hungry,” his brother kept repeating. “We’re hungry, Justin. Please find us some food.” Justin was just five years old; his brothers two and three. Their mother, a heroin addict, had left them hungry and alone, while she went to get her next fix. Later that day, after trying to burn down the family home, Justin was taken into care. Justin was taken into care at the age of five after deliberately burning down his family home. Six years on, after 20 failed placements, Justin arrives at Casey’s home. Casey and her husband Mike are specialist foster carers. They practice a new style of foster care that focuses on modifying the behavior of profoundly damaged children. They are Justin’s last hope, and it quickly becomes clear that they are facing a big challenge. Try as they might to make him welcome, he seems determined to strip his life of all the comforts they bring him, violently lashing out at schoolmates and family and throwing any affection they offer him back in their faces. After a childhood filled with hurt and rejection, Justin simply doesn’t want to know. But, as it soon emerges, this is only the tip of a chilling iceberg. As a visit to Justin’s mother on Boxing Day reveals, there are some very dark underlying problems that Justin has never spoken about. As the full picture becomes clearer, and the horrific truth of Justin’s early life is revealed, Casey and her family finally start to understand the pain he has suffered. About the Author: Casey Watson is a specialist foster carer. She has been working in this field for six years after giving up her position as a behavior manager for a local school. During this time she has welcomed 14 difficult-to-place children into her home. As a specialist foster carer she works with profoundly damaged children, seeing each child through a specific behavioural modification program, at the end of which they will hopefully be in the position to be returned either back to their family or into mainstream foster care. Casey combines fostering with writing, usually late at night when the rest of the family is sleeping. During her spare time she is working towards a degree in Psychology and Criminology. Casey is married with two grown-up children and three grandchildren. |
| The Boy Who Adopted Me. Don Weldon. 1994. 250p. Larksdale. |
When I read Bracha Stock’s delightful diary and afterthoughts, the prose had a poetic ring to it: distilled memories written by a native Israeli, married to an American, who writes in English in a voice that is uniquely hers. At the heart of this enchanting and provocative read, there are two absorbing themes—the joys and fears involved in raising an adopted child, coupled with the experience of rearing one who is bi-lingual from the earliest age—at home in two languages. Within this structure there are other nuggets of interest-ranging from insights into the parenting process in general to glimpses of life as lived in the sixties in Tel Aviv in Israel and New York. Over and above all, every word resonates with heartwarming truth. This is definitely a book to be enjoyed and savored and not just by adoptive parents. — Ruth Seligman, American-Israeli author and journalist. About the Author: Bracha Stock has been a teacher, journalist, and interior designer. In the 1950s in New York, she worked for the Voice of America, taught Hebrew and studied interior design. In Israel, she was on the staff of the Haaretz daily, practiced interior design and taught at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. |
How do you fix something that can’t be changed? What happens when helping a broken little boy tears you apart? And when can letting go help you hold on? Breaking Me Whole is the story of how one mother grappled with all of these questions. An arduous adoption journey to bring her son home had left the family financially drained. The discovery of their new little boy’s history of abuse, neglect and mountain of medical and special needs was daunting. The process of building up a broken little boy was completely tearing a mother apart. And what she hoped would ultimately heal them both—love—proved to be cruelly elusive. This is the true story of one little boy’s triumph over a multitude of injustices and one mother’s journey to help him get there while venturing on an unexpected journey of her own. |
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a true story of two deeply troubled boys both in need of a loving home. This is the sixth title in the series. The Watsons are astonished when they answer their front door to find their case worker with a small boy on the doorstep. Jenson is just nine years old. He was removed from his home thirty minutes earlier when it was discovered his mother had left him at home while she went on holiday with her boyfriend. A couple of weeks later Casey is in for a second shock when she is asked to take a second nine-year-old boy, Georgie. Georgie is autistic and has been in a children’s home since he was a toddler. The home is closing and social services need somewhere temporary for him to stay. With her own grown up son, Kieron, having Asperger’s (a mild form of autism), Casey knows this is one child she cannot say no to. The relationship between Jenson and Georgie is difficult from the outset. Jenson is rebellious and full of attitude and he kicks off at anything, constantly winding Georgie up. Georgie doesn’t cope well with change and is soon in a permanent state of stress. Despite Casey’s best efforts, her innate love for the children is being tested and she begins to question if she can handle Jenson’s cruelty. But overtime it becomes clear that the boys have formed an unlikely bond. Could this be the solution to all of their troubles? |
From the Publisher:
La Leche League of Germany originally published this book to support the desire of adoptive mothers and mothers relactating to breastfeed their babies. We do not believe that the success of a breastfeeding relationship should be judged by the amount of milk produced, but rather by the mutual trust that develops between a mother and her child as a result of the closeness involved in breastfeeding. What we know about relactation and induced lactation is a work in progress and you are a part of it. Our fervent wish is that you and your baby have a breastfeeding relationship that is satisfying for both of you, regardless of how you achieve that goal. This book is primarily for adoptive parents and relactating mothers, but it was also written for all those who work with these parents and are involved in breastfeeding counseling. La Leche League is an internationally recognized not-for-profit organization that is active in more than 63 countries with about 7000 volunteer LLL Leaders. It was founded to provide encouragement and information to mothers who want to breastfeed their babies. An LLL Leader is specially trained by La Leche League to support mothers through regular Group meetings and through telephone counseling. She is available to parents during the entire breastfeeding period and offers both emotional support and practical help when there are difficulties. You can get in touch with an LLL Leader via the national La Leche League addresses, through the international hotline, or via the Internet at www.llli.org. By the Same Author: After the Adoption (1987, Fleming H Revell). |
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