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This is the true story of two mothers, one in the United States, the other in Korea, and of the little boy who left the world he knew to make a home with a new family. This powerful account of international adoption and ultimate reunion is told by the adoptive mother, who held her son’s birth mother in her mind and heart, never imagining that they would meet. |
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“Do I have to tell my adopted child the truth?” This is a question that faces every adoptive parent. Filling a much-needed gap in the adoption literature regarding communication with adopted children, Telling the Truth to Your Foster-Adopted Child provides parents with the important knowledge of why adopted children need to know the truth about their past. The authors offer practical guidelines and tools parents can use in communicating with their children the circumstances of their past. The book presents the developmental stages of how children understand adoption and what needs to be said to a child age appropriately. The authors suggest how to share with children the painful and difficult issues regarding their circumstances, birth family and background. The goal is to provide a gateway into life as emotionally and psychologically healthy adults, with solid foundations for identity and self-esteem. About the Author: Betsy Keefer is a Training Consultant for the Institute for Human Services in Columbus, Ohio, where she has been instrumental in the development of adoption training curriculum for professionals used nationwide. She has almost thirty years of experience in child welfare, adoption placement, post adoption services, and training. Jayne E. Schooler, an affiliate trainer with the Institute for Human Services and Program Manager for the National Foster Parent Association, has over twenty years of experience in child welfare, first as a foster parent, then as adoptive parent, adoptive professional and educator. She is the author of The Whole Life Adoption Book (1993) and Searching for a Past (1995). By the Same Author: The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family (1993, Piñon Press); Searching for a Past: The Adopted Adult’s Unique Process of Finding Identity (1995, Piñon Press); Journeys After Adoption: Understanding Lifelong Issues (with Betsie L. Norris) (2002); Mom, Dad... I’m Pregnant: When Your Daughter or Son Faces an Unplanned Pregnancy (2004, NavPress); and Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families (with Betsy Keefer Smalley & Timothy J Callahan) (2010, NavPress). |
Kevin Conley was adopted out of Korea at the age of two. He was raised in a normal and loving family, but at the age of fifteen, Kevin took the path to drug addiction. In this story, I share our five years living with his addiction, availing ourselves of any help we could get. This is also a story about a suicide, and our fight with the city of Akron, Ohio to fence the All American Bridge (Suicide Bridge). |
Adoption is not the same as it used to be. In the past, there was no continued contact between the adopted child and biological parents after placement. In recent times, however, adoption commonly means that contact continues, which means that relationships need to develop and be nurtured. 10 Adoption Essentials is a book containing what everyone should know about developing these relationships to ensure a healthy, beneficial, and lasting bond with everyone involved. |
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At last there’s a motivational workbook that is quickly becoming America’s definitive guide to international adoption. 10 Steps to Successful International Adoption walks prospective parents through every step of the adoption process, from exploring the idea of adoption to successfully raising a child from another culture. This incredible resource includes numerous fill-in and downloadable forms and checklists, jump-start hints to speed up the process, helpful tips from adoptive parents and professionals, and detailed up-to-date country-by-country profiles. About the Author: Brenda K. Uekert is a sociologist with decades of experience conducting applied research. She is the adoptive mother of a little girl from Ukraine. Brenda, her daughter, and three cats live in Williamsburg, Virginia. |
Testimonies of God giving hope in the midst of seemingly hopeless circumstances; e.g., Chapter 2: Bringing Our A Game: Journeying into Adoption. |
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There is nothing quite so valuable as a book that is rooted in difficult and real personal experience, constructed with sound theological thinking, and applied in a practical manner. That combination is rare, but Richard Voelz manages it in this book. Often those who are in ministry, in positions of leadership in the church, fail to respond to needs, or seem insensitive to them, simply because they have no idea what to say and what to do. We have celebrations and commemorations in the church for traditional holy days and for major transitions of life, and we ought to do this. But what takes the theology celebrated, taught, and lived on days like Christmas, Good Friday, or Easter and applies them to daily hardships experienced by members of the community? If we are to be an effective community, serving as an extended family for one another, we cannot limit ourselves to talking about, celebrating, or even mourning just the expected things. We need to be able to connect with people who are mourning for any sort of loss. In this book, you will learn how to reach out to people who are dealing with issues of reproductive loss and adoption in a way that can bring healing to individuals and to the community. It will speak strongly to pastors, but should also be helpful to church leaders, especially those in small groups. It will help build understanding and lay the groundwork for making these events of life a part of our continuing concern and our plan to bring wholeness and healing to our churches and to the world. About the Author: Richard W. Voelz is an Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA. Rich is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with over 10 years of congregational ministry experience. A PhD graduate of Vanderbilt University’s program in Homiletics and Liturgics (’11), he is also the author of Youthful Preaching (Cascade, 2016) and a contributing editor of The Living Pulpit (Chalice, 2018). |
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That Place Called Home is a first person account of a Sister of Mercy who was allowed by her order to adopt an orphaned baby. That the child was diagnosed as HIV+ makes the story even more special. The book is an extraordinarily inspiring account of motherhood, and reveals how, in our search for love and belonging, we may end up finding family in the most unexpected places. About the Author: Sister Mary Ann LoGiudice is executive of Community Maternity Services—an agency for pregnant teenagers under the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, New York. She was one of the first nuns to adopt a child, not to mention that the child was HIV-positive. Sister Mary Ann is a member of the Sisters of Mercy and she lives in Albany, NY. Paul Grondahl is a feature writer for the Albany Times Union in Albany, New York and author of Mayor Corning, A Political Biography. His features have received numerous local, state, and national journalism awards. He resides in Albany, NY with his wife and two young children. |
In 2009, Imagine Adoption agency went bankrupt, stranding forty-three children, including Mark and Sharla Kostelyk’s son and daughter, Elijah and Sedaya, in its Transition Home in Ethiopia. This is the account of their fight to bring their children home. This story is one of faith, determination, and an unwavering love for two orphans half a world away. This love would transcend government bureaucracy, the unfamiliar spotlight of the media, financial obstacles, and common sense. Meet a regular dad who became a hero, traveling halfway around the world to save two of his children and an ordinary mom who stepped out of her comfort zone, advocating to protect her kids. Above all, this is a story of miracles; the miracle of adoption and the faithfulness of a God who asks us to love the least of these. |
Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumb-tacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK. So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years. More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most. About the Author: Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable movies of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club, and Something’s Gotta Give Her many awards include the Golden Globe and the Academy Award. Keaton lives with her daughter and son in Los Angeles. By the Same Author: Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty (2014). Compiler’s Note: Diane Keaton is an adoptive single mother. |
From the Back Cover:
For millions of modern women who are unable fo conceive a child, and unwilling to give up their dream of having a family, adoption is the only answer. But the adoption system is staggering, fraught with exhaustive paperwork and intimidating misinformation. Unpreparedness can result in marathon delays, or worse, an unsuccessful or unsatisfying adoption. Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to adoption. There Are Babies to Adopt is a practical and proven-effective guidebook for would-be adoptive parents that answers questions like: How long a wait can you expect? How do you improve your chances of getting the baby you want? What does it really cost? From finding the right adoption agency to the pros and cons of international adoption to the subtleties of the Home Study, this is the indispensible adoption handbook, complete with state-by-state breakdowns of adoption laws, lawyers and agencies. Researched and written by an adoptive parent, There Are Babies to Adopt is all you need to form a workable game plan for adoptive parenthood-and give yourself the best chance to have the baby you have longed for. About the Author: Christine A. Adamec is the author of sixteen books, including many on adoption, such as Is Adoption For You?, The Adoption Option Complete Handbook, and The Encyclopedia of Adoption. She concentrates of self-help and medical trade and reference books. |
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With the grace of a novelist and the reportorial instincts of a seasoned journalist, two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene gets to the heart of the AIDS crisis in this powerful story of a woman working to save her country’s children, one at a time. When Haregewoin Teferra’s husband and twenty-three year-old daughter died within a few years of each other, her middle class life in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was shattered. Bereft and with little to live for, Haregwoin became a recluse. Her self-imposed exile was interrupted when a priest delivered first one, then another, orphaned child into her care. To everyone’s surprise, the children thrived, and so did Haregewoin. As word spread, children of all ages began to appear at the door of her modest, tin-walled compound: an infant handed over by his dying mother, an orphaned brother and sister whose grandfather was too poor to feed them, a baby left on the doorstep. Haregewoin’s home became known as the rare place where AIDS-stricken parents and grieving families could safely leave their children. Soon Haregewoin was caring for sixty children, running an unofficial orphanage and day school, and learning firsthand about her country’s and her continent’s greatest challenge: the AIDS pandemic that is leaving millions of children without parents to care for them. There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin and her children: a story of struggle, but also of the triumph of saved lives and the renewed happiness of children welcomed by adoptive parents in Ethiopia, America, and around the world. It is the story of what one human being can do in a time of crisis. And at heart, it is a book about children and parents, wherever they may be, how ever they may find each other. About the Author: Melissa Fay Greene, is the author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, and Last Man Out. Two of her books have been finalists for the National Book Award, and New York University’s journalism department named Praying for Sheetrock one of the top 100 works of journalism in the twentieth century. She has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, Life, Readers Digest, Redbook, Salon.com, and others. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Don Samuel, and their seven children, two of whom were adopted from Ethiopia. By the Same Author: No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (2011, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), among others. |
This new collection of adoption stories will intrigue you, no matter where your child began. Poignant, heart-warming, it is a book in which you will recognize yourself and bits of your experience. —Grace C. Sandness, author of Commitment, the Reality of Adoption and Brimming Over. ____________________ * Families Adopting Children Everywhere (F.A.C.E.) is an educational organization not affiliated with any adoption agency. It is a non-profit, public-service organization that for more than a quarter century has helped families and individuals in the mid-Atlantic region understand the various choices in adoption, the terminology, the emotions, the monetary costs, etc. It offers a comprehensive course that covers practical topics such as picking an adoption agency, current information on trends in domestic and inter-country adoptions, and issues in adoptive parenting. |
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The babies are dying. He wouldn’t know it at the time, but those four words would forever change Philip Cameron’s life. Both heartbreaking and inspiring, They Call Me Dad is the story of one man’s fight to protect and care for those the Bible calls the least of these (Matthew 25:40). From rescuing dying babies in the former Soviet Union to protecting and loving the orphans of Moldova, They Call Me Dad will take you into dark, unspeakable places—places of stench, abuse, and death. But it will also show you what can happen when you step out of your comfort zone and allow God to use you for His purpose. So come on a journey that will enrich, challenge, and change your life. About the Author: Missionary-Evangelist Philip Cameron is a preacher, singer, author and founder of a far-reaching international ministry that has impacted nations such as his native Scotland, Romania, Moldova and beyond. In 1976, Philip married his hometown sweetheart, Chrissie, in Peterhead, Scotland and they now live in Montgomery, Alabama. They have four children: Philip, Melody, Andrew and Lauren. |
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It began with a program NBC reporter Marjorie Margolies filmed showing Korean orphans happy with their American families. The story affected many deeply, but none more so than Marjorie herself. She had a good job, an apartment, and loved children. She wasn’t yet ready for the commitment of marriage. Why shouldn’t she adopt a hard-to-place child, one of an age no one else wanted? Ignoring the refusals of the adoption authorities because she was single, Marjorie flew to Korea, where, after she had almost given up hope of finding a child she would be allowed to have, she met Lee Heh Kyung, a tiny, abandoned six year-old girl. It was love at first sight, and Marjorie didn’t rest until she made the impossible happen and got her prospective daughter to America. How Lee Heh won over all the skeptics (a few boyfriends excepted) and with the devoted help of Marjorie’s parents and Marjorie herself adapted to American life make the first part of this heartwarming story. But Marjorie wanted a second child, a sister for Lee Heh; four years later Holly (half American, half Vietnamese) came to Marjorie from a Saigon orphanage. Her fierce, inexplicable tantrums brought Marjorie to the edge of despair. To find the clues to the dark secrets of her children’s lives, her collaborator on this book, Ruth Gruber, flew to South Vietnam and South Korea to track down the truth of the children’s pasts and round out this moving story of the human spirit in triumph. About the Author: Since completing the book, Marjorie Margolies has married Congressman Edward Mezvinsky of Iowa, and she and the children have moved to Washington, where she now lives and works. Her collaborator, Ruth Gruber, a distinguished investigative reporter, specialist in the problems of refugees, and author of ten books, lives in New York with her husband and two children. She was for twenty years foreign correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, and her articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers throughout the world. |
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Thicker Than Water is a moving collection of stories from 12 different South Africans who have lived through the experience of adoption, either as adoptees or as part of a family who have chosen to adopt. With honesty, insight and humour they open up about the joys and sorrow, the prejudice and the pride that they live with as they build their own unique lives and families. Proving that there is no such thing as an “ordinary” family, these stories are also a testament to the overwhelming love that develops between members of a family, whether they share a bond of blood or not. With a comprehensive resource section offering all the information anyone interested in adoption or finding their birth family may need, Thicker Than Water is not only a collection of real stories, but also an invaluable resource that, until now, has not been available in one comprehensive and heart warming book. About the Author: Rebecca Kahn is a freelance writer and journalist who lives in Johannesburg. She’s currently working on her M.A. in Journalism at Wits University. |
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When Richard and Sue Miniter decided to open their home and their hearts to a foster child, they couldn’t imagine the frustrations and joys, the breakthroughs and setbacks, not to mention the emotional toll, that awaited them. Here is the remarkable true story of how their lives changed forever with their decision to answer an abandoned child’s wish for... The Things I Want Most It was a small note buried in the file of a deeply troubled eleven-year-old boy—a plea for a normal life the Miniters couldn’t ignore: The Things I Want Most A family A fishing pole A family Rich and Sue Miniter knew becoming Mike’s new foster parents wouldn’t be easy. In his short life Mike had been a victim of severe abuse and neglect. Judged mildly retarded, continually medicated, he had lived in a dozen foster homes and institutions. Sullen and charming, obsequious and hostile, Mike hardly seemed the ideal candidate for placement. Having raised six children of their own to the brink of adulthood, the Miniters thought they knew everything about parenting. But were they ready to take on a child virtually everyone had given up on? Despite some reservations, the Miniters believed they’d heard in that simple note the true voice of a frightened child who wanted what all children want and need: someone to love who would love them in return. And so they brought Mike home to the cozy country inn they’d restored and managed in rural upstate New York. There, over the next year, they would try to make Mike’s wish come true. But first they would have to work through the fear, anger, and distrust with which he’d learned to defend himself. We share the Miniters’ struggle to make Mike a part of their family: from the difficult adjustment with their older children to the red tape and bureaucracy of educational programs and child welfare agencies. Yet the biggest obstacle of all would be Mike himself, who would give them every reason to give up but one—the power of love. Filled with moments of surprising humor and explosive violence, of deep despair and profound elation, The Things I Want Most is a personally candid and emotionally gripping memoir that defines the very meaning of family. About the Author: Richard F. Miniter lives and works with his wife, Susan, a financial planner, in a country inn in upstate New York. |
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Are You Considering Adoption? If So, Then You Need To Read This Before Finalizing Your Decision! Hear True Stories About What Experts And People Who Have Adopted Have To Say About: • How Much Time You Need To Set Aside For Adoption • How It Works For Both You And The Child • How To Make The Decision Much Less Confusing • Various Perspectives About Adoption • How To Physically & Emotionally Handle The Challenging Process Of Adoption • How To Adapt To Being An Adoptive Parent • And Much, Much More |
• How To Tell Your Child About Adoption • Questions Your Child Will Want To Know • Why It’s Important To Tell Your Child The Truth • How To Be Prepared To Answer Any Question • What Responses To Expect From Different Age Ranges (ages 1-5, 6-9, 9-11) • How To Work Most-Effectively With Your Child’s Feelings • And Much More! |
If you are considering adopting or fostering a special needs child, this self assessment questionnaire is an invaluable tool. The questions are divided into three broad categories: how we as a couple communicate; looking at myself and us as parents; and looking at some adoption and foster care realities. These questions have no right or wrong answer, only what is true for you and your family. With its emphasis on communication and honesty, Think About Adopting or Foster Parenting Special Needs Children will enable you to seriously evaluate this adoption option. |
Like thousands of childless American couples, Alex and Jane decide to adopt. They file an application, get approved, and travel to Cambodia to meet their new baby. They adopt little Ivy, and fly home as a family. Fifteen months later, they learn that the orphanage director who handed Ivy to them has been arrested—for trafficking children. Concerned, Alex begins to dig. Another trip around the world leads nowhere, and leaves open the possibility that Ivy wasn’t really an orphan who needed a family. On their family’s third journey to ask about Ivy’s history, they finally find some answers. But this true story raises more questions than it resolves, about one family and about adoption as we know it. Third Time Charmed will keep you riveted as one typical American family’s international adoption unfolds, in surprising directions. From a seedy office in Phnom Penh to a Congressional office, it’s a page-turner. As the governments of Cambodia and the U.S. meet to discuss opening adoption from Cambodia to American families—after a 10-year shutdown following corruption charges against a U.S. citizen—this story is both timely and troubling. |
Over the years, as Shelly has walked with countless adoptive families, she has heard their hearts. She is well acquainted with the unique challenges and heavy burdens that adoptive and foster moms face. As a fellow adoptive mom, she understands their fears and trials, and has great compassion for their needs. Even more than that, she is deeply connected to the One who offers HOPE in the midst of it all. It is her passion to pour that HOPE into the hearts of moms who have said YES to the Fatherless. In this book, Shelly sheds light on the abounding HOPE available to these moms, their families and the children to whom they said YES. Nugget by nugget, you will be drawn to the source of all HOPE. You will come away deeply encouraged and better equipped to care for the needs of your family. You will be reminded that you do not walk this journey alone. |
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When David Marin fell in love with three Mexican-American children, abandoned, stuck in the social services system and desperately in need of a home, there was only one thing he could do. Give up his relatively carefree life and learn how to become a parent. In the process, he found the future he had always wanted, but he also learned some hard lessons about single-parent adoption, the Kafkaesque side of Social Services, and America’s anti-immigrant sentiment: Heartbreaking, funny, and inspiring, This Is US chronicles Marin’s quest to create a better life for these children—and for himself. About the Author: (pronounced “marine”) is half Puerto Rican, half Irish, and all American. Raised in the Midwest, he went to prep school on the East coast, college in Colorado, and law school in California, where he has spent that last twenty years. A media company executive by profession and an adventurer by nature, he has traveled to eleven countries and visited thirty-six of our fifty states. He has skydived in Arizona, water skied on the Caribbean, and rescued olive ridley sea turtles in Cost Rica. |
Happy, successful, easy adoptions are a reality! Many times the children are no more or less difficult to parent than average. However, sometimes raising adopted kids is extremely difficult. Are you really prepared to adopt? Read on as experienced foster, adoptive and even grandparents share stories of success, but also of struggles. Many entered adoption unprepared and were quickly overwhelmed. We wondered why our parenting methods failed. Why didn’t our love heal these children? Why were our previously happy families now falling apart? We lacked vital information about invisible disabilities; we didn’t know how profoundly neglect damages an infant. We didn’t realize we’d signed up to be missionaries to miniature heathens—nor that a spiritual enemy opposed us. Perhaps we assumed the natural state of man, apart from negative influence or defective genes, would be an ideal person; in the Garden of Eden... maybe. We’re not in the Garden anymore! Before you adopt, pray for protection and guidance—and be sure you read This Means War! |
This is the compelling tale of Luke, a Korean adoptee who comes to an American family at age one and who gradually loses his life’s way—to die from crack cocaine at age 21. It is also a story of his adoptive father, a CIA officer, who offers an unsparing and vivid account of his own efforts—wise, misguided, passionate, naïve, creative, ultimately unsuccessful—to save his son. Luke is warm, likeable, funny, quick to win friends—and a skilled deceiver, able to impress others with a seeming maturity and urbanity. But the image he works to create for himself is increasingly belied by the darker realities of his life and the black hole he creates around his family. The tale chronicles a poignant and tumultuous quest to grasp the meaning of Luke’s life—and death—against a broad international backdrop from Afghanistan to Latin America. It explores the mysteries of adoption, identity, addiction—and grace. |
In Through Our Eyes, William Hunter and some of the children he fostered share their experiences within these unique social welfare phenomena. The author took in children who suffered horrific abuse from their birth parents as well as during their journey through foster care. Hunter describes his personal struggle to salvage what humanity was left to these children and advocate against the immense bureaucracy of the state welfare and mental health systems. After a dozen years, it all came crashing down around him. The stress caught up with him and took a toll on his emotional and physical health. The cases of these children touch the human heart and invoke anger against the worst segment of our society. Few people know the suffering these children endure after the sensationalism of their abuse fades to the back page. Their struggle to survive in the system remains heart wrenching. |
Soul and Rebecca have raised a perfect family, eleven children that have grown up in a world of love and devotion. Being middle aged has changed nothing inside of their hearts, they still feel that that they have more to give to children, more to offer to the innocents in our world that sometimes suffer just from being born. The Hancocks have changed other children’s worlds, do they dare to try it again? And this time there is someone that is watching, there is someone that cares, and she will follow the children. Will it be the final days of life as Soul and Rebecca know it? |
Mary Graf and her husband, Dana, flew to Lima, Peru on a gray November day in 1991 with the intention of adopting a newborn baby boy. The adoption agency said the trip would last about three weeks, give or take a day or two. Fourteen months later, Mary and 14-month-old Patrick walked together off the airplane onto American soil for the first time, home from an odyssey that tested the will, the sanity and the spirituality of a woman who had just wanted to be a mother. This is a story about a woman who had to seek the shelter of a convent to keep her baby away from a court system that was intent on taking it back, a system that was riddled with corruption and plunged innocent victims through its not-so-hallowed halls like an errant pinball. This is a story about a woman who was robbed at gunpoint, had her apartment windows shattered by terrorist bombs and watched helplessly as military tanks moved in and shut down the government before her very eyes. How much could one woman endure before she was allowed to just take her baby and go home? In practical terms, this is a cautionary tale. The pitfalls of international adoption are spelled out in cringing detail. But, in human terms, what makes this story compelling and unique is that this is not your typical “birthmother changes her mind, tug-at-the-heartstrings” adoption story. On the contrary, Maya, the birthmother and Mary, the adoptive parent banded together with Elena, the Peruvian pixie of a lawyer, to take on a third-world bureaucratic monster that reared its ugly head on an almost daily basis. This is a true story and is recounted verbatim from the journals that Mary and Dana kept to document their travails. The names have been changed in most cases to protect the identities of all parties—both the innocent and the guilty. But there is no disputing the facts of this heart-wrenching tale. Or its heartwarming conclusion. |
Till There Was You: An Adoption Expectancy Journal is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind keepsake journal for those expecting a child through adoption. Not just a memory maker, but also a compilation of thought-provoking passages from adoptive parents, as well as a therapist’s insights during each stage of an “adoption pregnancy.” With separate sections organized in meaningful categories, there is ample space to record your own thoughts and feelings on each topic. With sensitive text and touching photos, Till There Was You will help prepare your heart and inspire you to create your own journal of exploration. |
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In 1989, the Yurceks’ sixth child, Becca, was born with a rare genetic disorder, and while she struggled to survive, her family tumbled into poverty. This is the true and inspirational story of their journey out of poverty and the many miracles they received along the way. In the spirit of giving back, they adopted and reunited five siblings separated in foster care. And for their new children they fought for resources in mental health and child welfare with the same tenacity they had fought for Becca in the medical world. Other’s said their journey was impossible, but they proved them wrong. About the Author: Ann Yurcek, the mother of eleven children, takes you on a rare and wonderful journey of wholeness in parenting a critically ill child and adopting a family with extraordinary needs. AN enjoyable read you will not soon forget. |
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