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Adoption is a great way to grow your family. My wife and I have adopted two wonderful boys but the journey was not always magical. Think about it. Adoption can be a big decision financially and it is filled with emotions. Our journey has had its ups and downs and now that we have found the end of the adoption road for us, we have a lot to share that can hopefully help you. |
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How to Hold On is a guidebook from an inside perspective on how to hold on to our biological, adoptive and foster children. It gives direct insight on what parents and adults need to consider, enforce and instill in the youth of today—the leaders of tomorrow. How to Hold On will not only give you a first-hand perspective on the journey foster parents are on, but it will also help you to understand the resources that are needed prior to entering this commitment. It is meant to equip parent with a new perspective on parenting, which will allow you to remain forever connected to your children. The book’s intent is to publicly and directly draw attention to the area of foster care that needs to be changed. It will give people everywhere a challenge to mirror the behavior that they want to see in the youth of today. About the Author: Donna Guinnip is from rural Pennsylvania where she resides with her husband, two children, and an ever-changing group of foster children. Donna is passionate about seeing change in the foster-care system. Being a cancer survivor has taught her that you weakest moment can be your strongest motivator. Donna and her husband continue in their journey as foster parents, allowing each child and each encounter to change and strengthen them. In writing How to Hold On, her second book, her desire is to promote a new way of thinking for handling, loving and holding on to our children, especially children in care. Donna continues to expand her knowledge, and is presently taking course in psychology to facilitate a stronger understanding of the children that grace her home. |
Are you considering special needs adoption? Please read on. Written by experts in the field, Quick Easy Guides share little-known trade secrets and helpful hints to get you moving in the right direction. Quick Easy Guides gives you books you can judge by the cover. Our books are short, sweet and cheap. You can see for yourself. |
| How to Make Adoption an Affordable Option. William L Anthes, et al. 1999. 76p. DIANE Publishing Co. A guide for people who would like to consider adoption but are reluctant because they believe that the process is too expensive. It is also for families who—caught up in the emotions of adopting—may not have given serious thought to some of the less obvious financial aspects of adoption. Discusses the expenses most common to most adoptions, as well as those that are unique to the adoption of waiting children, to independent adoptions, and to international adoptions. Also gives information about financial assistance and tax breaks available to adoptive parents. |
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How to Open an Adoption: A Guide for Parents and Birthparents of Minors by Patricia Dorner is both a guidebook ad a reference book. Ms. Dorner takes us through the process step by step, examining along the way the emotional issues for all involved. She gives readers the tools they need to make opening their adoptions the best experience it can be. It is also an invaluable tool for the adoption professional. About the Author: Patricia Martinez Dorner is a licensed therapist who has 17 years experience helping birth families and adoptive families open up their relationships with each other. Author of Talking to Your Child About Adoption and Adoption Search: A Guide for Professionals [see Compiler’s Note], and the co-author of Children of Open Adoption, Ms. Dorner is a nationally recognized leader in open adoption education. In addition to her counseling practice, Ms. Dorner lives in San Antonio, Texas and is the mother of two children in open adoptions.HR> By the Same Author: Children of Open Adoption (with Kathleen Silber; 1990, Corona Publishing Co.) and Talking to Your Child About Adoption (1991, Schaefer Publishing Co.), among others. Compiler’s Note: All efforts to find any publication information regarding the book Adoption Search: A Guide for Professionals have been unsuccessful. |
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How to Raise an Adopted Child is a comprehensive “how-to” book that anticipates nearly every possible situation adoptive parents may encounter. Recognizing that adopted children differ in many ways from birth children, the authors tell parents what they need to know before—and after—adoption. From securing information about the health of the child you plan to adopt, to choosing a pediatrician for the youngster you’ve adopted, from how to tell your child that he or she is adopted, to reacting “properly” upon learning that your son or daughter is searching for his or her birth mother—this is the ultimate resource for parents of adoptees. Hundreds of questions that parents ask most often are interspersed along with typical problem situations. For instance, what should you do if your adopted child begins stealing from your birth children? How can parents discipline an adopted youngster who’s been physically or sexually abused in the past? What’s the proper response to a bigoted neighbor who uses a racial epithet against the black child of white parents? Or, if you decide that your adoptee requires the services of a therapist, should you and your spouse accompany your child? Sensitively and thoughtfully, the authors of this book show us that—first and foremost—adoption is an act of love, but it is successful only when parents recognize it comes with its own special set of needs and circumstances. About the Author: Judith Schaffer and Christina Lindstrom are psychotherapists and family therapists, and are cofounders and codirectors of the Manhattan-based Center for Adoptive Families. |
What began as a simple but very serious question in the middle of a Wal-Mart store turned into a life-changing adventure. My wife and I decided to adopt a baby that day. Our story is filled with trials and tribulations as we weather storms (literally a hurricane and a tree on our house), discover one is now two (twins, we couldn’t believe it!), and finally bring Garrett and Andrew home...as two become four. This book was written to give hope and to inspire people to adopt. There are thousands of kids out there who need a loving family. If we could do it, through all our experiences, then anyone can do it. |
Sarah Simmons was born in a small city. She moved to a smaller town at the age of fourteen and met and married her high school sweetheart, Pastor Abraham Simmons. She is the mother of three boys: Morris, Kevin, and Jonathan. She also serves as assistant pastor beside her husband, with whom she hosts a weekly television broadcast. How We Survived Our Adoption Story describes how you can make it through any process that may be filled with turmoil, trouble, and trials, even from the very beginning. It allows her to express the challenges associated with raising children, adopted or natural. It also shows the deep love of God the Father in navigating through perilous times. Sarah Simmons believes that reading this book will allow you to see that all things are possible through Jesus Christ, and “her Best Friend, Holy Spirit.” |
The real-life, true story of a family from northeast Texas and their incredible journey through the justice system of Cass County, Texas. A fascinating account of a family who could be your neighbors; just a normal foster-adopt family until tragedy brought them to the adverse attention of local law-enforcement officials and they were persecuted [sic] by a rogue District Attorney in pursuit of his own personal political ambitions. |
Hungarian Rhapsody is a heart-warming account of an Indiana couple who set out to adopt a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe but wouldn’t stop until they had brought home six children. Fighting red-tape all the way, Jim and Kim Derk were determined to reunite a split-up family and then keep them together at all costs. A must-read for anyone considering international adoption, this heart-felt book offers much insight into what really happens when Americans head overseas to foreign orphanages. |
The Hybrid Family: Understanding Trans-Ethnic Adoptive Parenting is written as a guide for the mental health practitioner and adoptive parent. It covers topics such as the importance of: language of origin, attachment and bonding, ethnic origin identity, lifebooks, open vs. closed legal arrangements and much more. Here’s a quote directly from the text: “Adoption waiting after official paperwork is complete can be anywhere from a couple of weeks, months or years. It is a time of preparation for a change in lifestyle, as well as an opportunity for the adoptive parents to educate themselves on the special needs of a trans-ethnic adoption. It has been suggested that if the adoptive parents take this time to get up to speed on diversity sensitivity and attachment, the success rate of immediate adjustment after adoption is much greater. Many times adoptive parents get caught up in paperwork and then family adjustment. They fail to seek preventative assistance before there is a crisis. Attachment is a process that many times can be better facilitated by a mental health professional, rather than the adoptive parents taking it on themselves alone. A resource list is advised. Diversity issues that naturally arise for an adoptee in adolescence can be largely tackled in the same way, preventively.” |
Claudia Chapman has some big questions. Questions like: were all my friends this obnoxious before they had kids? Will the social worker notice if I only vacuum the middle of the rooms? Does God really hate me, or does it just feel that way? And, most importantly, will anybody find out that sometimes, I pretend my cat is a baby? Claudia doesn’t want to have these questions. Claudia and her husband Jay want children, but they find out fast that it isn’t going to happen the fun way. Confronted with the choices of a medically risky pregnancy, remaining childless or adopting, they decide to adopt internationally. After all, thinks Claudia, how hard can it be? Ha. From England to Ethiopia and back again, this memoir is the story of what happens next. It’s a story about doing something different from what everybody else is doing. It’s a story about getting the house really, really clean. It’s a story about paperwork, pregnancy announcements, wrestling with God, falling down, getting up, coming to terms, and—eventually—it’s a story about becoming a mother. |
Everyone has a story to tell and this is mine. In 1981, my husband and I decided to adopt a baby from Honduras. We thought it would take only three weeks, yet it took over three months. It was a journey of a lifetime. |
Are you ready for maybe inadequate behavior from your future adoptive children? Are you ready for the fact that the love for those children will not appear until later or maybe not at all, that they will remain “ strangers” in your family? |
I want to learn how to be supportive of adoptive families. What would adoptive families like me to know? This book will give you the tools to participate in caring for children in need of families by being encouraging to and supportive of adoptive families. |
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She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she’s right. She shortens the electric cords in the house to save electricity. That’s the character Gracie Allen has played for years. And for all that time people have asked George Burns, “How do you stand it? Why do you put up with it?” And for twenty-eight years George has been answering, “I lover her, that’s why!” This story of the life George Burns has led, both B.G. and A.G. (before and after Gracie), is genuinely funny and genuinely moving. Nobody knows more jokes than he—he’s used only his best here; nobody knows so well how far down down can be, while very few have been at the top so long. He tells it all, and he tells it well (he admits unblushingly that he has the best collaborator in the business). And he has succeeded in making his love letter to Gracie a letter that will delight anyone lucky enough to read it. After a certain amount of dickering, a friend of George Burns’s called Jack Benny agreed to write the prologue. By the Same Author: Gracie: A Love Story (1988, Putnam). |
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Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy’s house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice’s mother takes her from her parents’ house and disappears. Cathy spends three anxious days worrying about her whereabouts before Alice is found safe, but traumatized. Alice is like a little doll, so young and vulnerable, and she immediately finds her place in the heart of Cathy’s family. She talks openly about her mummy, who she dearly loves, and how happy she was living with her maternal grandparents before she was put into care. Alice has clearly been very well looked after and Cathy can’t understand why she couldn’t stay with her grandparents. It emerges that Alice’s grandparents are considered too old (they are in their early sixties) and that the plan is that Alice will stay with Cathy for a month before moving to live with her father and his new wife. The grandparents are distraught—Alice has never known her father, and her grandparents claim he is a violent drug dealer. Desperate to help Alice find the happy home she deserves, Cathy’s parenting skills are tested in many new ways. Finally questions are asked about Alice’s father suitability, and his true colors begin to emerge. About the Author: Cathy Glass has been a foster carer for over 25 years, during which time she has looked after more than 100 children, of all ages and backgrounds. She has three teenage children of her own; one of whom was adopted after a long-term foster placement. The name Cathy Glass is a pseudonym. Cathy has written 16 books, including bestselling memoirs Cut, Hidden and Mummy Told Me Not To Tell. By the Same Author: Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child (2006); Hidden: Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten: How One Boy Overcame the Odds (2007); Cut: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to be Part of a Family (2008); Saddest Girl in the World: The True Story of a Neglected and Isolated Little Girl Who Just Wanted to Be Loved (2009); The Night the Angels Came (2011); A Baby’s Cry (2012); Another Forgotten Child (2012); Please Don’t Take My Baby (2013); Will You Love Me?: The Story of My Adopted Daughter Lucy (2013); Daddy’s Little Princess (2014); and Saving Danny (2015), among many others. |
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He’s the man of your dreams. But he doesn’t share your dream of having a child. He seems to have all the makings of a great dad: He’s kind, fun, and thoughtful—and you’ve even seen him goof around and play with his nieces and nephews. But what do you do when he says, “I’m just not ready to be a father”—and you're ready to start a family? In I Want a Baby, He Doesn't, authors Donna Wade—who wanted a baby when her husband didn’t—and licensed marital therapist Liberty Kovacs, answer your most worrisome questions, including how to: • Begin those difficult conversations about having a baby • Deal with personal and practical challenges—from money to fertility • Understand and show respect for his emotional concerns • Resolve the conflict amicably—for both of you About the Author: Donna J. Wade has successfully faced the challenge addressed in I Want a Baby, He Doesn't with her husband. She first told her family’s story in a self-published book. Through extensive world travel, Donna has performed volunteer work as an editor in a newsletter for the American Women's Club in Lausanne, Switzerland. She lives in Sacramento, California, with her husband, Ken, and their Dalmatian, Bella. Liberty Kovacs, Ph.D., M.F-T., is a licensed marital/family therapist and holds a Ph.D. in marital/family therapy from the California Graduate School of Family Psychology. Dr. Kovacs has published articles about marriage in a number of professional journals and mainstream publications, such as Family Therapy, The Sacramento Bee, Body and Soul, and Good Housekeeping, London. Dr. Kovacs lives in Sacramento, California. Compiler's Note: See, particularly, Chapter 15: Treating Infertility (pp. 151-162) and Chapter 16: Adoption as an Option (pp. 163-173). |
A story of one family’s trials and frustrations in the process of adopting foreign children and how the adoptees were integrated into the family unit. |
After four plus years of fostering children of all ages, I decided it was finally time to put my experiences into words. This book will inform and enlighten you, as well as touch your heart. If you are already a foster parent, you will gain additional insight for your future foster care placements. If you are a new foster parent, someone who works in the foster care system or are just curious about foster care—be prepared to be educated, entertained and inspired. |
Have you ever thought about adoption? Have you felt that tug at your heart to consider bringing home a child that is waiting for a family? If you have thought about it, but that is as far as it went, this book is for you. This book takes a practical and encouraging look at some of the misconceptions as well as the roadblocks to adoption, both of which can be overcome. Read through it you—and a waiting child will be glad you did. |
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Against the background of growing interest in adoption as a gratifying route to the building of families, it is increasingly important to have an authoritative source for evaluating the available information. In Ideal Adoption, child psychoanalyst Dr. Shirley C. Samuels addresses critical adoption issues and provides a framework for making acceptable choices to benefit each member of the adoption triangle—the birth parents, the adoptive parents, and the adopted children. Drawing on interviews, hands-on clinical experience, and writings in the field, the author brings a wealth of current information to prospective adoptive parents, adult adoptees, birth parents, attorneys, judges, and lawmakers. The volume includes an in-depth discussion of the historical, sociological, and legal aspects of adoption, including problems relating to the decreasing numbers of adoptable infants, surrogate parenting, and how both open adoption and the need to search for one’s biological roots may affect the adoptee, his adoptive parents, and his birth parents. Also addressed is the often arduous process of finding a child, as well as the emotional needs, problems, and feelings of birth parents, the adoptive family, the adopted child, and the special-needs child. Samuels defines the laws and problems in present-day adoption and opens them up to fair, critical evaluation. Ideal Adoption offers practical, relevant information not only to past and prospective adoptive parents, but also to those professionals in psychology, adoption law, sociology, and social work who may influence adoption policy and practice. About the Author: Shirley C. Samuels, Ed.D., is a child psychoanalyst in private practice, specializing in the area of children and their birth and adoptive parents, and a marriage and family therapist. She is Clinical Coordinator at the Center for Preventive Psychiatry in White Plains, New York. Among her other professional activities, she presently serves on the Health Advisory Committee of the Westchester Community Opportunity Program, Inc., and is on the Board of Directors of the Union Child Day Care Center in Greenburgh, New York. She is the author of Enhancing Self-Concept in Early Childhood and Disturbed Exceptional Children, as well as a number of articles dealing with adoption and child care. Dr. Samuels, cited in Who’s Who in American Women, received her B.S. and M.S. from Syracuse University and her Ed.D. from Columbia University. |
Come join me on the winding road to ... Me 2.0!! It’s a story full of laughter, struggles, and randomness. See, I’ve been trying to figure out who the hell I am. I’m a daughter, a sister, a worker, a wife, a Mom?? Yikes!!?? You may chuckle or shed a tear or maybe even relate to me in some teeny tiny way. Or not... |
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If I Love My Kid Enough: The Reality of Raising an Adopted Child is based on the true story of Bethany. Adopted in infancy, she showed the promise of the perfect child. But early on there were indications that hers might not be a “happily ever after story.” The book traces Bethany’s erratic development and her family’s attempts to find answers for her troublesome behavior. Parents of all children can benefit from studying the lessons of Bethany’s life. In telling this one story, the authors provide both the parents’ and therapist’s points of view while probing the latest research on the early critical stages of development. This emphasis helps families focus on strengthening attachment so that they can provide the structure their children need to become mature and responsible adults. Also included are valuable strategies and resources for finding help when concerns arise. About the Author: Sara-Jane Hardman, a former teacher and school administrator, and Jean Roe Mauro, LCSW met shortly after they adopted their children and became involved in the adoption self-help movement. As the years unfolded, adoption became a central theme in their lives. Jean’s practice expanded to helping adoptive families and the pair ran conferences and workshops on adoption related issues. The authors’ work can be read in Adoptalk magazine, a publication of the Adoptive Parents Committee. They are currently preparing an online parenting course for adoptive parents for BGCenter.com. The authors live in New York. |
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If Nights Could Talk is a rich gothic story of a Southern family, a tale of wealth and emotional need that spans generations. Marsha Recknagel’s story begins with the surprise appearance of her sixteen-year-old nephew, Jamie, who arrives on her doorstep and into her ordered, childless life. Fleeing a chaotic home run by Marsha’s unstable younger brother and his wife, Jamie is an ominous creature. He is dressed in Goth garb and clearly ready to take to the streets. For Marsha, to open the door is to risk opening herself up to the pain of the past. For years Jamie has been the center of an ongoing family tug-of-war, a victim of erratic court systems and tangled bureaucratic social services. Reluctantly Marsha takes him inside. Thus begins the painful, terrifying, and extraordinary process of unraveling the damage inflicted by her family on one of its own. Woven into this record of rescue is a portrait of the unified yet tormented Recknagel family. Forced to search through the heart of her family’s past, Marsha recounts stories of her oil wildcatter father, who died a mysterious death and whose presence pervades the book; of her young niece, who drinks and drugs herself to an early death; and of the brother who could not live up to the father’s expectations. Reliving this history, Marsha comes to realize that her partnership with Jamie has been inevitable, and their fates inextricable. Marsha begins as Jamie’s guide but soon discovers lessons only he can teach her. Through this, Marsha learns to accept and forgive a family dedicated to disasters. Armed with beautiful prose and a heart-wrenching story, this debut is a breathtaking saga of love and redemption. About the Author: Marsha Recknagel has an M.F.A. from Bennington College. She teaches creative writing at Rice University in Houston, Texas. |
Brody had been on the at-risk register since birth but was only removed from his alcoholic parents when he reached the age of six. Foster carer Mia Marconi was thrilled when he first arrived—a boy the same age as her son. It can be so bewildering for foster children when they arrive. The older ones are usually withdrawn and sullen. The younger ones will be screaming, spitting at you, making themselves sick and throwing themselves on the floor. For Mia, it’s normally her boisterous, happy children who provide the comfort at the beginning, because why should they trust another adult. Children always feel safe and secure when there are other children about. Mia believes it’s through making relationships with other children that they begin to trust adults again. But little did she know that six-year-old Brody was actually taking his anger and frustration out on her son. She quickly begins to realise the heavy price her family has had to pay. About the Author: Mia Marconi has an Italian father and an Irish mother. She grew up in London and has been a foster carer here for over 20 years. During that time she has welcomed more than 250 children into her home. To protect the identities of people she is writing under a pseudonym. By the Same Author: Learning to Love Amy (2014); A Child Called Hope (2014); and Little Girl Lost (2015). |
The story of this successful endeavor [New Beginnings—an Apostolic-led adoption program for unplanned pregnancies] is both enlightening and moving. You will appreciate these acts of charity personified. Many childless couples have been blessed by the arrival of a beautiful, tiny infant whom the birth mother chose not to abort, all because of New Beginnings. I personally have been blessed by two beautiful and loving granddaughters because of New Beginnings. You will not soon forget this story of divine love in action. — Jack E. Yonts, Sr. |
| If You Adopt a Child. Carl & Helen Doss. 1957. 368p. Holt. This is a book regarding the adoption of children including the situation, risks, alternatives, and how to go about adopting. It also includes a section for making a child legally yours including inheritance rights, citizenship, etc. The rest of the book is on raising the child thereafter. Includes a recommended reading list for adoptive parents. About the Author: Helen Doss has been a writer and an internationally known advocate for adoptive families for more than fifty years. She has published numerous articles in such national periodicals as American Girl and Reader’s Digest, and is the author of thirteen books, including All the Children of the World and Really Real Family and the coauthor (with Carl Doss) of If You Adopt a Child. She lives with her husband Roger Reed in Yuba City, CA. By the Same Author: The Family Nobody Wanted (1954). |
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Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There’s no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace and funerals are community affairs. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for her local newspaper. If anyone knows the goings-on in this close-knit town—from births to weddings to funerals—she does. Whether contemplating the mysterious death of eccentric Speedy Joe, who wore nothing but a red union suit and a hat he never took off, not even for a haircut; researching the details of a one-legged lady gold miner’s adventurous life; worrying about her son’s first goat-hunting expedition; observing the awe-inspiring Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival; or ice skating in the shadow of glacier-studded mountains, Lende’s warmhearted style brings us inside her small-town life. We meet her husband, Chip, who owns the local lumber yard; their five children; and a colorful assortment of quirky friends and neighbors, including aging hippies, salty fishermen, native Tlingit Indians, and volunteer undertakers—as well as the moose, eagles, sea lions, and bears with whom they share this wild and perilous land. Like Bailey White’s tales of Southern life or Garrison Keillor’s reports from the Midwest, NPR commentator Heather Lende’s take on her off-beat Alaskan hometown celebrates life in a dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful place. About the Author: Heather Lende writes for Haines’s Chilkat Valley News and is a frequent contributor to the Christian Science Monitor and NPR’s Morning Edition. Her column for the Anchorage Daily News was awarded the 2002 Suzan Nightingale McKay Best Columnist Award by the Alaska Press Club. Compiler’s Note: In a chapter entitled “Mother Bears” (pp. 115-126), the author describes her trip to Bulgaria to adopt Stojanka, an eight-year-old Gypsy orphan whose addition brings the total number of her children to five. |
Have you ever wondered what would be the biggest thing you could do with your life? Could you climb Everest? Swim the English Channel? What remarkable thing could you achieve if you chose to extend your experiences past where you are comfortable...if you pushed yourself to the limit? Most adoptive parents find out in the first few minutes of the adoption process. Adoption can be stressful and difficult, while remaining the most precious times in your life. Immediate Family is a wish list of information for adoptive parents—and both pre-adoptive parents and seasoned adopters will find a wealth of information, presented in language the current generation of adoptive parents can relate to. It has a hip, fresh attitude and is far from the normal dry, academic text. It validates the feelings of adoptive parents and confirms they are not alone in their doubts, confusion and impatience. Immediate Family shares stories and advice from other parents who have adopted children of all ages, domestically, via private or foster-to-adopt programs and internationally. They offer their experiences and share the things they wish they’d known then. Immediate Family offers more than just helpful tips; it builds a bridge between the children in need and the families who wait for them, using sound advice from parents who’ve been there. |
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