Author : Michelle McColm
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
In this practical book, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion; drawing on extensive interviews and the experience of her own reunion.
Author : Elizabeth Trinder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2004-11-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0470094230
The book describes the experiences that people have had when tracing their birth parents, as well as offering practical advice on how to go about searching and what to expect emotionally. Each section has an advice box which summarizes key points, notes issues to pay particular attention to, or offers draft letters that readers can adapt for their own needs. The appendix contains useful addresses and weblinks, and includes checklists for searching and for the reunion. Chapters include reunion with birth fathers and birth siblings, as well as with birth mothers, the relationship with the adoptive family and dealing with reunions that break down.
Author : Susan Fedorko
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781432795009
Susan Fedorko had always known she was put up for adoption before she was even a year old. And she had always known she was Native American. But when she turned eighteen, she felt the need to know more about herself. She received some information about her birth parents through the adoption agency, but there was so little to go on. She gave up her search many times. For the next twenty years Susie was busy with marriage and motherhood. Finally, in 2002 and at the age of forty, she received the phone call that would change her life. Someone was looking to find her. And what she discovered was astonishing. Susans birth mother was the first Native American supermodel, Cathee Dahmenan international fashion model with two celebrity marriages under her beltand her great uncle was the famed Native American artist, George Morrison. Cricket is the incredible story of one womans journey to discover her roots and define her place in a newly complex and extended familywith her adoptive family, her birth family, and her husband and daughters. Its the story of who she was before, who she became after, and how it all happened.
Author : Linda Back McKay
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Adoptees
ISBN : 9780878396238
Linda Back McKay shared the stories of women who gave up their babies for adoption during the 1960s and 1970s in her previous book Shadow Mothers (1998). Out of the Shadows chronicles these women fifteen years later, having reconnected with the children they gave up long ago.
Author : Linda Back McKay
Publisher : Adventure Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1999-03
Category : Adoptees
ISBN : 9780878391295
Author : Lauren Lynne
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480836249
In My Adopted Life, author Lauren Lynne tells her adoption story from her perspective. She shares lessons, questions, and letters written by her and her birth family. Through these letters, Lauren learned answers to the questions that had been with her a long time: how her birth parents met, what her birth mothers pregnancy was like, how she made decisions regarding the adoption, and what she had to sacrifice to ensure that Lauren would be placed with the best family possible. Knowing this information helped Lauren to better understand herself and to know that her adopted family is her true family and that love determines all things. In this personal narrative, a young woman shares the story of her life, exploring the details of her adoption and getting to know her birth parents.
Author :
Publisher : Acacia Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Adoptees
ISBN : 0976222450
"Collection of stories about the reunions of adopted children and their birth parents, with sections from the point of view of the children and their adoptive and birth parents"--Provided by publisher.
Author : David Howe
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Adoptees
ISBN : 9781903699539
By comparing a group of adopted people who searched for birth relatives, with a group who did not, this is the first study to provide real answers to the fascinating subject of why adopted adults decide to search or not. Based on the experiences of 500 adopted people, the research exhaustively looked at all the possible influences on search decisions.
Author : Evelyn Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780987193124
A reunion between family members who have been separated by an adoption can be a very emotional event. This resource helps to explain that mixture of feelings and to increase understanding of the emotional dynamics of the reunion experience.
Author : Brooke Randolph
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781942312093
