From the Back Cover: It is not a prerequisite for a mother to experience a pregnancy to be able to breastfeed her baby. The natural process of a mother making milk for her baby is signaled through the mother’s pituitary gland. Breastfeeding your adopted baby is a natural process and the first choice for many mothers. After reading this book, you will feel more informed and confident with your decision to breastfeed your baby.

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About the Author: Debra Stewart Peterson has been speaking in classes, seminars, and workshops to adoption groups, health departments, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and hospitals for seventeen years on breastfeeding, child care, the child’s self-esteem, and breastfeeding the adopted baby. Debra and her husband David have three breastfed adopted children.

As the owner of the Body Profile Clinic, she does lactation consultation and breastfeeding product sales. Debra has counseled adoptive mothers on breastfeeding for over seventeen years. She has been a Leader in La Leche League and served in many other Area Council Positions for La Leche League. Debra is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.

Debra has worked with a local adoption agency for six years as a social aide doing home studies, interims, counseling, speaking, and classes. She and her husband directed an educational enrichment seminar program at the local hospitals for LDS Social Services.

Debra has also served on the State Adoption Board for seven years and the WIC Health Advisory Board for five years in Utah.

From the Back Cover: Breastfeeding Without Birthing is an essential guide to breastfeeding for mothers through adoption, surrogacy, and other special circumstances. All breastfeeding-without-birthing mothers who wish to provide their own milk for their babies will learn the tools and techniques for inducing lactation without pregnancy and birth. The author includes her own story, and the stories of other mothers, to bring the concepts to life.

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About the Author: Alyssa Schnell has been helping mothers and babies in the St. Louis, Missouri area with breastfeeding for the past 11 years. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) working in private practice and a La Leche League Leader. Alyssa enjoys working with all mothers and babies, but she has an extra special place in her heart for helping mothers through adoption and surrogacy to breastfeed their babies. She is the proud mother of three breastfed children, two by birth and one by adoption.

Breeding in Captivity takes us on Stacy Bolt’s journey to have a child at “advanced maternal age,” first with the help of a Really Expensive fertility specialist, and then ultimately through a local adoption agency. But this isn’t your typical serious memoir about struggling with infertility; it’s an entertaining, witty read that perfectly balances humor with its more poignant moments. Breeding in Captivity is about a quirky, lovable couple that you root for through their fertility struggles and adoption adventures. It’s about the hundreds of Internet message boards where annoyingly perky women from Kappa Alpha Fruitcake refer to sex as “babydancing” and sprinkle virtual “baby dust” on each other. It’s about meeting birthmothers and deciding on open adoptions. It’s about being chosen and then having a birth mother change her mind. But ultimately, it’s about hope, how life can surprise you, and laughing through the insanity.

Grace Layton had just finished her freshman year in college when she was stricken with polio. It was 1950, five years before the polio vaccine, and the disease was merciless, leaving her a quadriplegic. Brimming Over tells the story not only of her disease and the painful, frightening short-term recovery, but of the life that unfolded after the disease. Layton went on to marry and adopt nine non-white children, each with a physical or emotional handicap. The book recounts the early efforts of her and husband, Dave Sandness, to establish independence; of the greeting card business she established by drawing charcoal illustrations using her mouth; of several moves the family made around the country; and of the trials, tribulations and joys of raising nine children, each with their own distinct personality.

From the Publisher: On the day Aaron brought five-year-old Jon into his life, a foster child abandoned by a drug-addicted mother, Aaron was an orphan of sorts himself, estranged from the deeply religious parents who for years regarded him, their gay son, as some freak of nature, an abomination in God’s eyes. Once treasured as their gifted male firstborn, he had endured their criticism and condemnation, their bribes and entreaties to forsake the path to what they called a lonesome and wasted life. Finally he cut them off, and with his life partner resolved to create a new family.

Adopting Jon was the way.

A memoir that reads like fiction, Bringing Him Home traces the gay couple’s fifteen-year ordeal parenting a youngster with extraordinary disabilities: the psychological fallout of early emotional neglect, plus Attention Deficit Disorder more severe than doctors had ever seen. The story follows Aaron’s journey from the joy of bringing home one beautiful boy, to the disheartening frustration coping with the child’s intractable defiance, to the ultimate devastation when they could no longer co-exist under one roof.

Despite the emotional toll, the couple shepherded Jon through boarding schools, mental hospitals, doctors and counselors and juvenile hall. They brought to him an unwavering commitment and loyalty that challenged the homophobic grandfather’s belief that homosexuals live lonely and wasted lives.

In Bringing Him Home, three generations wrestle with dashed dreams and the fundamental powerlessness parents face with their children. It is a story of how and why parents love their kids as they do, and how expectations of a child, when rigid and ill-fitting, fuel the deepest unhappiness in both generations.

A tale of reconciliation and reunion, love and acceptance, Bringing Him Home celebrates the triumph of an open heart over ancient prejudice.

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About the Author: Aaron Cooper, Ph.D., is a Harvard-educated writer and clinical psychologist with The Family Institute at Northwestern University. He is the author of the award-winning parenting book, I Just Want My Kids To Be Happy: Why You Shouldn’t Say It, Why You Shouldn’t Think It, What You Should Embrace Instead (Late August Press, 2008). His work has appeared in the Off the Rocks anthology (Newtown Writers, 2005) and on BigUglyReview.com. Bringing Him Home won first place in the 2008 Indie Excellence Book Awards (gay-lesbian category).

From the time Jennifer Linck was old enough to rock her Cabbage Patch Doll, she dreamed of being a mother. As her friends began welcoming tiny bundles of joy, Jennifer struggled to conceive a child. As a gut-wrenching desire to be a mom built within her, God began to place adoption on Jennifer’s heart. In 2010, Jennifer and her husband, John, felt God leading them to build their family through international adoption. Eighteen months after they began their journey to Ethiopia, God took them on a detour that only He could have orchestrated. After accepting a job at the local homeless shelter, Jennifer began to see how God truly wanted her to live her life-serving the least of these. As God transformed her heart and showed her how to truly love the poor, the widow, and the orphan, He began to weave together a story that would eventually lead to her son. In Bringing Home the Missing Linck, Jennifer shares how the pain and heartache of infertility became the building blocks God used to strengthen her faith and make her heart more like His, as He answered her prayers for a child.

Bringing Lucy Home shares the compelling drama of one family’s relentless pursuit to bring hope into the life of an orphaned baby girl. In itself, this account would merely duplicate the narratives of other adoptive families. However, Jennifer Phillips’ journey unexpectedly detoured into heartache, causing indefinite separation from her husband and three biological children. Her struggle with bureaucratic injustice will make you want to call a politician—and many did just that. Yet, in the end, it was not political or legal pressure that reunited this family. God’s hand was at work, using every disappointment to teach a young mother about His unrelenting love. Join the thousands who have walked alongside Jennifer and Lucy as they tried to reunite with their family. Jennifer’s humor and vulnerability will captivate your heart and transform her story into your story as your eyes are opened to deep gospel truths that are only unearthed in the soil of suffering.

From the Back Cover: A wee one is found, softly whimpering, on a small patch of dirt in the heart of southern Vietnam. At the orphanage, they discover her name and birth date scrawled on her arm. Although her physical deformity is glaringly obtrusive, her eyes reveal a wise soul full of desperation and a longing for acceptance.

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About the Author: Tray Pillow currently lives in beautiful Helena, Montana with her soldier husband, five energetic kids, and spoiled puppy. She volunteers for Holt International Children’s Services, writes and photographs for several publications, represents Centers for Cultural Interchange, and homeschools the brood--in between cooking, playing, cleaning, traveling, and yes, occasionally sleeping.

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By the Same Author: Max’s Adoption (2000) and Bharat Mata: As Humanity Unfolds in Mother India (2001).

From the Dust Jacket: The U.S. surgeon general and the American Medical Association recently stated that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption for a woman during pregnancy—a fact unknown in 1971 when Michael Dorris became one of the first unmarried men in the United States to legally adopt a very young child, as affectionate Sioux Indian he named Adam. At the time, little was revealed about Adam’s past, except that his biological mother had died of alcohol poisoning.

The past two decades have been a time of alarming discovery about FAS, both for the growing Dorris family (through the single-parent adoption of two more infants, and a 1981 marriage to write Louise Erdrich, which has produced three more children) and for the international medical community.

Findings about the genetic and cultural causes of FAS—and the enormous scope of the problem (thousands of physically and behaviorally impaired children born each year)—parallel one father’s unceasing battle to solve his eldest son’s developing health and learning problems. The Broken Cord is the inspiring story of a family confronted with a problem with no solution and the first book for the general reader that describes the tragedy and lifelong blight of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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About the Author: Michael Dorris is a professor at Dartmouth College, and a member of the Modoc tribe. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife/collaborator, Louise Erdrich, a novelist and poet, and their children. He is the author of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.

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By the Same Author: Paper Trail (1994, HarperCollins).

From the Dust Jacket: Brooks Hansen’s fiction has garnered comparisons to Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edgar Allan Poe. The New York Times Book Review once said of Hansen’s work, “literary grace that has the remarkable power to act as a lens.” In his first full-length work of nonfiction, Hansen brings the same tremendous literary gift to bear on an astonishing and candid tale of his journey to fatherhood.

While miracles in reproductive technology have brought joy to millions, those very advances have plunged many couples into an unrelenting cycle of hope and heartbreak. One failed attempt may lead to another and another—but how do you give up when there is always another doctor, another procedure holding out the possibility of conception and the child you yearn for?

Brooks Hansen vividly captures the emotional turmoil he and his wife, Elizabeth, endured as they tried to conceive, the years their lives were put on hold, and the excruciating sense of loss. He writes too of the couple’s journey through the bewildering world of adoption—a path to parenthood fraught with financial, legal, and emotional risks of its own.

Offering men a chance to be heard and women a rare opportunity to view the struggle with infertility from a male perspective, The Brotherhood of Joseph brings to life the anger, frustration, humor, and sense of helplessness that come to dominate the husband’s role.

As his remarkable account reaches its finale in Siberia, Hansen’s tale broadens, becoming once again the story of a husband and a wife who, even after years of medical frustration and fruitless paperwork, still must take one last risk together and trust in their most basic instincts before their new family can be born.

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About the Author: Brooks Hansen has written five novels and his work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Best Life, Open City, Grand Street, and Bookforum. He and Elizabeth live with their children, Theo and Ada, in California.

Numerous reasons cause adopted teenagers to reconnect with their birth family via Facebook, creating new challenges for adoption today and tomorrow. Incorporating theory, practice, anecdotes, metaphors, diagrams, models and case studies, this accessible book, written by an experienced adopter, clearly explains these complex issues. It maps connections between trauma, child development, grief, adolescence, contact, truth telling and parenting styles; offering fresh perspectives and strategies for parents and professionals.

The daughter of an American international businessman, Elizabeth Evans grew up in three different countries in Asia. Seeing herself as an adopted daughter of Asia, the region became part of her identity and her soul. When she and her husband had three sons, they thought their family was complete, but fate had other plans for them. When they set out to adopt a daughter into their boy-majority family, they looked to the Eurasian country of Kazakhstan. Their adoption trip had too many tense moments, with missed flights, scary Russian officials and spy-novel worthy checkpoints. Elizabeth doesn’t hold back in talking about the difficult aftermath of adoption, something that she feels is important to share to reassure adoptive parents that they are never alone in their journey.

My wife and I adopted three-year-old twins from the foster care system, making our then ten-year-old daughter the big sister she always wanted to be. This outlines our journey to prepare for their arrival. From deciding on foster care, through the adoption becoming final. Easily the best thing we have done.

From the Publisher: With the unmistakable authority of a clinician, Dan Hughes builds a stirring story around the composite figure of Katie--a fragmented, tormented, isolated little girl in foster care whose terror, shame, rage and despair drive her to deeds like lacing the family hamburger with her own feces--in order to expose the tragedy of the attachment-impaired child. The author also affirms and demonstrates the possibility of transformative intervention. Allison is the confident, compassionate, and controversial therapist who diagnoses and treats Katie’s profound attachment disorder. Jackie is the therapeutic foster mother who fights to create a lasting bond with Katie by applying Allison’s blend of affective attunement and effective discipline. Dr. Hughes speaks in both popular and clinical voices as he animates Katie’s demoralizing but eventually reparative odyssey through more homes than any child should have to live in, drawing on his decades of experience with foster and adopted youngsters, their families, and the professionals who support them. Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children is richly webbed with commentary on the dynamics of that odyssey, and also on the separate and tandem roles of case manager, therapist, and parent-surrogate.

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About the Author: Daniel A. Hughes, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in Waterville, Maine, where he specializes in child abuse and neglect, attachment, foster care, and adoption. He provides consultation to family services programs and also to therapists, case managers, and parents struggling with the treatment of attachment deficits in children. Dr. Hughes is the author of Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children.

Adoption is becoming more and more common as a way to build a family. Yet it can be a confusing process if you don’t have a guide to help you understand what to expect. “Building Your Forever Family: A Guide to Domestic Infant Adoption” provides just that; a roadmap, so to speak, of the adoption process so that you know what to expect. In this book I address domestic (as opposed to international) adoption of infants. I walk you through the process from the time you begin considering adoption as a possibility for building your family until the time that the adoption is finalized. Although adoption laws and procedures do differ from state to state, this book will provide you with a general idea of what the process is like. If you’re considering adoption but are wondering what to expect, this book will help you understand the ins and outs of the adoption process, answer questions you might have, and give you confidence for the road ahead.

From the Dust Jacket: In Burning Fence, acclaimed novelist Craig Lesley turns his keen eye toward two difficult fathers and an alcohol-damaged Indian foster child, Craig’s own “son,” Wade.

Abandoned by his shell-shocked father, Rudell, Craig grew up with his stepfather, Vern, a tough, controlling railroader. When events turned nasty, Craig, his mother, and his baby sister fled on the night train and arrived at an Indian reservation where his mother found work. Decades later, convinced he would be a better father than Rudell or Vern, Craig takes in the troubled Wade.

But desperation over Wade’s violent acts motivates Craig to seek out Rudell in remote Monument, Oregon. Craig hopes his father, a reclusive coyote trapper and poacher, will help raise his disturbed grandson. There Craig meets his colorful half- brother, Ormand, a would-be East Coast hit man, now “born again.”

Skillfully capturing the rural humor, rugged characters, and hardscrabble life of Eastern Oregon, Burning Fence presents a searing reflection on fatherhood and offers remarkable insight into the landscape of the Western heart.

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About the Author: Craig Lesley received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for The Sky Fisherman, Winterkill, and Talking Leaves. He teaches at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

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By the Same Author: Storm Riders (2000, Picador USA).

On a March evening in 2000, an unexpected and unsettling thought came out of nowhere, disrupting Debbie Michael’s comfortable life—adoption! It was neither her idea nor her desire to adopt; she was already the mother of three. Instinctively, she knew God was speaking to her, but she did not want to listen if His message required action as life-changing as adopting an orphan. Dread lingered in the aftermath of the disturbing suggestion, and a debilitating fog of uncertainty settled over her life. A journey of a thousand miles (or five thousand, in this case) might begin with a single step, but Debbie was not eager to take that first step. Though God was relentless, she remained adamant. She was determined to ignore the nudging. But God would not be ignored! God pried Debbie out of her comfortable existence and opened a door to a life she didn’t know existed. But the Greatest of These is Love is about much more than adoption. It is a story about the powerful and astonishing ways God uses ordinary people to accomplish His divine intention that we love one another.

From the Back Cover: Jean Nelson-Erichsen and Heino Erichsen are the founders and directors of Los Niños International Adoption Center. They were already the parents of three biological sons when they adopted twin daughters in South America in 1973. Then, as volunteers for Adoptive Families of America (formerly OURS), and adoption agencies in Minnesota, they publicized many Latin American adoption sources. They paved the way for thousands of U.S. couples and singles to adopt. Through their guidance, research, and writing, the Erichsens went on to help find adoptive parents for orphaned and abandoned children in other countries as well. They conduct continuous research into sources of adoptable children worldwide. In 1983, the whole family traveled to Colombia where they met a nine-year-old boy whom they adopted. The Erichsens travel to Asia, Europe, and Latin America in order to develop and maintain new adoption programs. Since licensure in 1982, Los Niños International has placed over 1,000 orphaned, abandoned and relinquished children in loving American families.

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About the Author: Jean Nelson-Erichsen and Heino R. Erichsen are the only persons in the United States with Master’s Degrees in Human Development specializing in international adoption sources and procedures. They wrote the definitive work on the subject, Gamines: How to Adopt from Latin America in 1981, which was followed by How to Adopt From Central and South America, How to Adopt From Asia, Europe and the South Pacific, and the Los Niños International Family Cookbook. Jean Nelson-Erichsen is also the author of children’s media: Copito, the Christmas Chihuahua, May Davenport Publishers, and International Children, a bulletin board set and resource guide published by Trend Enterprises.

She also writes and edits the LNI Handbook as well as their monthly publication, Los Niños News, and is the supervisor of social work, overseeing pre- and post-adoptive studies, and directs adoption planning as well as the Taiwan and Texan adoption programs. She recently produced a 45 minute film, How to Adopt. This warm, uplifting video answers all the basic questions about American and foreign adoptions.

Heino R. Erichsen is the Executive Director. He directs the Latin American, Chinese and Russian adoption programs with a local bilingual staff. LNI cooperates with international adoption agencies in countries where these entities exist. In others, the agency cooperates with the national welfare system authorities.

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By the Same Author: Gamines: How to Adopt From Latin America(1981, Dillon Press); How to Adopt From Asia, Europe and the South Pacific (with Gay R Hallberg; 1983); How to Adopt From Central and South America (1989); How to Adopt Internationally: A Guide for Agency-Directed and Independent Adoption (1992); Butterflies in the Wind: The Truth About Latin American Adoptions (2004, Authors Choice Press); Inside the Adoption Agency: Understanding Intercountry Adoption in the Era of the Hague Convention (2007, iUniverse); and My Portable Life: Reluctant Runaway Finds Families for Thousands of Children (2009, iUniverse), among others.

From the Back Cover: The book chronicles not only the adoption of their three children abroad, but follows each of their children (including their biological son) into young adulthood. It vividly depicts their difficulties in raising teenagers in a cross-cultural, transracial home, and also exposes the frightening conditions facing today’s kids in our public schools, including gang issues, drop outs, and culture clashes. It provides valuable insights to parents and non-parents as well. This book was a real eye-opener and awakened me to the harsh realities our teens must face in what I would have thought were quality schools. Although told from a parent’s point of view, they very effectively explored the emotions, indeed the angst, of their teenage children.

—Jo-Anne Weaver, adoptive parent of a Chinese daughter placed by Los Niños International, and Senior Acquisitions Editor of Education and Developmental Psychology for Harcourt Brace

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About the Author: Jean Nelson-Erichsen, LSW-MA and Heino R. Erichsen, MA, founded Los Niños International Adoption Center in 1981. Since then, the agency has placed over 2,600 children. The Erichsens were already the parents of three biological sons when they adopted twin daughters in Latin America in 1973. They returned in 1983 to adopt a nine-year-old boy. They paved the way for thousands of prospective parents with their guidance, research, and written information. Their book, How to Adopt Internationally (Mesa Publishing House), is considered the “bible” on the subject. The Erichsens continue to travel to Asian, Eastern European, and Latin American countries in order to develop or to maintain adoption programs.

Jean is the Supervisor of Social Work at the agency. She is also the author of numerous articles in books and magazines on adoption.

Heino is the Director of Development and Public Policy.

Rosana N. Erichsen, BBA, one of the children in this book, is now the Executive Director.

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By the Same Author: Gamines: How to Adopt From Latin America(1981, Dillon Press); How to Adopt From Asia, Europe and the South Pacific (with Gay R Hallberg; 1983, Los Niños); How to Adopt From Central and South America (1989, Los Niños); Butterflies in the Wind: Spanish/Indian Children with White Parents (1992, Los Niños); How to Adopt Internationally: A Guide for Agency-Directed and Independent Adoption (1992, Los Niños); Inside the Adoption Agency: Understanding Intercountry Adoption in the Era of the Hague Convention (2007, iUniverse); and My Portable Life: Reluctant Runaway Finds Families for Thousands of Children (2009, iUniverse), among others.

“By adoption, stupid!” These three innocent words from a child more than anything else capture the spirit of this story of our parenthood journey. A journey of disappointment, anguish, anxiety, anticipation, frustration, fulfilment, unspeakable joy punctured by moments of great sorrows, and a return to anxious waiting.

From the Back Cover: “In the spring of 2002, my husband Andrew and I boarded a plane to Moscow and then an overnight train to the city of Voronezh in southern Russia. Two days later, a Russian judge declared that a child we had met only three weeks before was our daughter. We didn’t know much of her language. We knew even less about her past. We did know, however, that we loved her—and that this love made us one another’s. This book is the story of that journey and a reflection on that love.”

Families don’t just “happen”; they come together through God’s plan—and ours—sometimes in unexpected ways. Called by God to adopt, and guided in the process by the Holy Spirit, Jaymie Stuart Wolfe takes us with her and her family on an extraordinary journey of faith and love.

“How do I select an agency?” “Should we consider adopting more than one child?” “How will biological and adopted children adjust to our new family life?” These are just a few of the many questions adoptive parents may have. Both a practical guide and a spiritual inspiration, The Call to Adoption will be an invaluable resource for anyone considering or living through the process of adoption.

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About the Author: Jaymie Stuart Wolfe is an author, speaker, and singer/songwriter. She is a longtime columnist for The Pilot, Boston’s Archdiocesan newspaper. An active proponent of lay ministry, Jaymie serves as Faith Formation Coordinator at St. Maria Goretti Parish in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, and is a co-founder of Live Jesus, an association embracing the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales. She, her husband Andrew, and their eight children live with her mother and grandmother on Boston’s North Shore.

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By the Same Author: Adoption: Room for One More? (2015), among others.

From the Back Cover: Is the Lord leading you to grow your family through Christian Adoption?

Did you know 3 out of 5 people are touched by adoption? Have you been praying about expanding your family through adoption? Called to Adoption is a clear, easy-to-read guide for Christians who want to step forward in faith and answer God’s call to adopt. This is a valuable handbook as you take the steps needed to fulfill His desires for your life.

You will discover:

• The single most important decision to make before beginning any path to adoption.

• How to select the right adoption professional.

• Creative ideas to fund your adoption.

• The proven formula for adoption success.

• The shocking need for Christian Adoption.

• Encouragement from God’s word as you move through His plan.

• How to quickly get started toward adoption.

• What action to take now that you’ve felt God nudging you to adopt.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6

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About the Author: As a recognized adoption expert and certified professional, Mardie Caldwell, C.O.A.P., has helped thousands of birth parents and adoptive parents build families through adoption. After experiencing a very challenging adoption with her son, she dedicated her life to assisting others interested in adoption by founding Lifetime Adoption Center in 1986.

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By the Same Author: AdoptingOnline.com: Safe and Proven Methods That Have Brought Thousands of Families Together (2004); Adoption: Your Step-By-Step Guide: Using Technology and Time-Tested Techniques to Expedite a Safe, Successful Adoption (2005); The Healthcare Professional’s Adoption Guide: A Resource Guide for Clinicians, Social Workers, and Healthcare Providers, Covering the Many Aspects of Adoption (2008); and So I Was Thinking About Adoption...: Considering Your Choices (2008).

From the Dust Jacket: Camille’s Children is a warm and moving story of two people who found love together and wanted to share it with children who are mentally or physically disabled. They adopted thirty-one children, many with Down’s Syndrome. Children who were once destined to live out their lives in hospitals or institutions. Be prepared, when you read Camille’s Children you may change your ideas about parenting, kids, commitment, and the handicapped.

“I’m not a caretaker. I’m a mother, and what matters to me is that I matter in the life of a child.” Every day. Camille Geraldi demonstrates just how much a mother’s love, wisdom, and discipline matter. She will tell you. “This is what mothers do.” But have most mothers lived through 72 surgeries? Tied 26 pairs of shoes? Wiped 31 noses? Ordered 12 pizzas? Or bought 8 gallons of milk in one week?

That’s not all Camille has done. She founded the Up With Down’s Syndrome Foundation, a non-profit organization which now has a full-time staff and 350 volunteers. And in the midst of it all, there’s Camille, directing her troops with military efficiency and tending to the children with unfailing devotion.

Author Carol Burris saw Camille on 60 Minutes and was moved to write her story. Burris wrote the book in the first person so we could hear Camille’s own voice and is contributing her royalties to the Foundation.

From the Publisher: What do you do when you feel the Lord is telling you to do something that your government and everyone else say you can’t? This true story is about an ordinary housewife and mother of four sons from New Zealand who felt led by the Lord to adopt a baby girl from China at a time when neither government approved such intercountry adoptions. When starting on the journey she had no idea that the student uprising—culminating in what was to become known as the Tiananmen Square Massacres, where thousands of students were murdered—would be what finally put enough pressure on the New Zealand government to allow the adoption. Huddled together in a tiny apartment with few supplies and bullets ricocheting around outside and no visa for the adopted child meant there was no escape. But God was faithful to His promise to deliver them by His mighty hand. Although tragedy did hit for them as a family, the adoption brought to a head the need for New Zealand to open its doors to adoption from other nations.

Experts state that the incidence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is four times greater among adopted children than in the general population. This book, written specifically for adoptive parents, offers eloquent but practical advice about ADHD. In addition to providing concrete, inventive advice about behavior management, medication, and diet, Can’t You Sit Still? provides a message of hope.

From the Back Cover: The Canadian Adoption Guide is a thorough and practical handbook for those considering adoption as a way to create their family. It is the first book to focus on the Canadian adoption process.

Adopting a newborn through the government requires an average wait of more than six years. By actively pursuing a private adoption, the author was holding her son within nine months. This book shares the knowledge gathered during her journey.
■ Examines all types of adoption—public, private, international, domestic, special needs
■ Discusses everything you need to consider—from deciding whether to adopt to taking leave from work after adopting
■ Provides detailed instructions on how to search for your child yourself
■ Explains the necessary legal steps and rules for each province
■ Lists information about hundreds of adoptive parent support groups and adoption organizations, newsletter, books and studies

The Canadian Adoption Guide—essential help in creating a family at last.

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About the Author: Judith Wine is currently a practising mother, and formerly practising lawyer and college lecturer. In 1992, she and her husband adopted a child born in British Columbia. They live in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

For parents who adopt children trans-racially, one of the challenges they face is understanding how to care for their new child’s curly hair. The advice new parents get on caring for curly hair varies widely and usually leads to more confusion than answers. In this helpful little book, parents will find a wealth of information about caring for curly hair, clearing the fog and helping them see exactly how to best care for their new child’s hair. The practical advice given in this book is not based on abstract theory or traditional myths about haircare but is derived from years of practical, hands-on experience of caring for curly hair so that it thrives.

From the Publisher: Children who have been abused can heal. In this book, the Razvis share what they have learned about how to care for children who have been abused. They have helped six of their adopted children conquer trauma and become healthy: physically, mentally, and emotionally. This is their personal story. Publisher’s Note: It strongly recommended to purchase this book’s companion workbook, Trigger Journal, which is also published by Conquered By Love Ministries.

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About the Author: Imran and Tami Razvi are the parents of 11 children (four birth children and seven adopted children). In their dozens of parenting books they teach the unique, practical parenting techniques which make their family so unified. Their adoption books share the skills for healing traumatized children that have helped their family overcome seemingly impossible challenges.