Insight Into Adoption


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Why is there misunderstanding surrounding the adoption world? This need not be. Knowledge and insight provide enlightenment to dilemmas often found in adoptive families. This updated third edition of Insight Into Adoption explains why people in the adoption world think and feel the way they do. Adoptees and adoptive parents should know their feelings and thoughts, although different, are normal. Once understood, misconceptions fall away. They're in a unique situation-living and loving in a family where members are not biologically connected to one another. Thousands of readers have already benefitted from Insight Into Adoption. The author has heard, "I read your book. How could you know what I was feeling?" and "How could you get inside my head and write my story?" One adoptee who left home as a teenager returned 20 years later to tell his parents, "I read this book and finally understand that my feelings were normal. I know now that you loved me all along." This book explains why adoptive parenting is different from biological parenting. Many enlightened adoptive parents appreciate their adoption experience as a gift from life. They are grateful and cherish how adoption has touched them. All adoptive parents, with knowledge and insight, should be able to say the same.




Insight Into Adoption


Book Description

Why is there misunderstanding surrounding the adoption world? This need not be. Knowledge and insight provide enlightenment to dilemmas often found in adoptive families. This updated third edition of Insight Into Adoption explains why people in the adoption world think and feel the way they do. Adoptees and adoptive parents should know their feelings and thoughts, although different, are normal. Once understood, misconceptions fall away. They're in a unique situation-living and loving in a family where members are not biologically connected to one another. Thousands of readers have already benefitted from Insight Into Adoption. The author has heard, "I read your book. How could you know what I was feeling?" and "How could you get inside my head and write my story?" One adoptee who left home as a teenager returned twenty years later to tell his parents, "I read this book and finally understand that my feelings were normal. I know now that you loved me all along." This book explains why adoptive parenting is different from biological parenting. Many enlightened adoptive parents appreciate their adoption experience as a gift from life. They are grateful and cherish how adoption has touched them. All adoptive parents, with knowledge and insight, should be able to say the same.




A for Adoption


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The experience of adoption—both adopting and being adopted—can stir up deep emotional pain, often related to loss and early trauma. A for Adoption provides insight and support to those families and individuals facing these complex processes and challenges. Drawing on both a psychoanalytic, theoretical framework and first-hand accounts of adopters, adoptees, and professionals within the adoption process, Alison Roy responds to the need for further and consistent support for adoptive parents and children, to help inform and understand the reality of their everyday lives. This book explores both the current and historical context of adoption, as well as its depiction within literature, before addressing issues such as conflict in relationships, the impact of significant trauma and loss, attachment and the importance of early relationships, and contact with birth families. Uniquely, this book addresses the experiences of, and provides support for, both adoptive professionals and families. It focuses on understanding rather than apportioning blame, and responds to a plea from a parent who requested "a book to help me understand my child better".




Insight Into Adoption


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Discusses the emotional and adjustment issues faced by adoptive children and parents with advice on problem solving.




Open Adoption, Open Heart


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Adoption has changed dramatically over the past twenty years; biological parents no longer have to say goodbye to their child forever. Now nearly all adoption agencies promote open adoptions. Open adoption creates the opportunity for a special relationship between the biological parents, the adoptive parents, and the child. Emotionally, this is still largely uncharted territory. Open adoption requires a new approach by all involved, but it also generates invaluable rewards. The supporting relationships of open adoption provide for the better development of the child's psychological and spiritual well-being. Russell Elkins gives valuable insight for making successful open adoption.Open Adoption, Open Heart is the inspiring, true story of Russell and Jammie Elkins heartwarming journey. In this book, Russell offers stories, encouragement, and practical advice about the tensions and triumphs in open adoption. Their experiences take readers deep into the feelings and emotions of adoptive parents, sharing the joys, difficulties, and amazing victories that face adoptive couples. Both adoptive and biological parents need the valuable lessons that Open Adoption, Open Heart will provide.




The Family of Adoption


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Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, now revised in light of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness in adoption. Joyce Maguire Pavao uses her thirty years of experience as a family and adoption therapist to explain to adoptive parents, birthparents, adult adopted people, and extended family, as well as to those who work with children professionally the developmental stages and challenges one can expect in the life of the adopted person. The Family of Adoption is truly the most insightful and healing book on the adoption shelf.




Insight Into Adoption


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Parenting for Peace


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This book emphasizes a mother's role in the development of the child's brain and emotional infrastructures.




Talking with Young Children about Adoption


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Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.




Arms Wide Open


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Arms Wide Open provides a window into the lives of young pregnant women struggling with the decision of making an adoption plan or becoming a single parent. It is a vital tool for couples considering open adoption. Mrs. Waters clearly outlines the emotional turmoil of the birth mothers and offers suggestions to help make an open adoption a positive experience for the child, the adoptive parents and the birth mother.