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Refuel Your Wait

Author : Laci Richter

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 46,66 MB

Release : 2020-09-16

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1725275260

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Book Description

In a world full of waiting, we could all use a little faith. This book speaks directly to the heart of waiting adoptive parents, but could also encourage anyone who finds themselves waiting for that next season of life. The text was originally written by the author as a journal while she and her husband struggled to start a family. This journal is now a book filled with Scripture and devotions of hope. Refuel Your Wait includes heartbreaking and joyful personal stories of infertility, the adoption process, relationships with birthparents, and a medical miracle. This book will encourage the reader to turn their wait from a passage of time into intentional time of prayer, relationship building, and unexpected joy.



Adopting the Hurt Child

Author : Gregory Keck

Publisher : Tyndale House

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 43,9 MB

Release : 2014-02-27

Category : Religion

ISBN : 161521447X

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Book Description

Without avoiding the grim statistics, this book reveals the real hope that hurting children can be healed through adoptive and foster parents, social workers, and others who care. Includes information on foreign adoptions.



The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

Author : Lori Holden

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 36,46 MB

Release : 2015-05-15

Category : Adopted children

ISBN : 9781442217393

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Book Description

This book covers common open adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.



Searching for Mom

Author : Sara Easterly

Publisher :

Page : 318 pages

File Size : 49,66 MB

Release : 2019-11-19

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780578601953

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Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother and struggled with perfectionism, suicidal ideations, and fantasy mothers. When she became a mom, her search to find and become "the perfect mother" intensified ... until her mother's death launched a spiritual epiphany.



Come Rain Or Come Shine

Author : Rachel Garlinghouse

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 39,54 MB

Release : 2013-03-05

Category : Interracial adoption

ISBN : 9781478310860

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Book Description

Are you prepared to adopt and parent transracially? Transracial adoption can be a daunting and exhilarating journey. At times you feel incredibly isolated and lost. However, with this conversational and practical guide in hand, you will be able to adopt with confidence and parent with education, empathy, and enthusiasm. Whether you are new to adoption, a seasoned adoptive parent, or you are an adoptee, birth parent, or adoption professional, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE will enhance your understanding and appreciation for transracial adoption. The book contains extensive resource lists, discussion/reflection questions for adoptive parents, and advice and research from experts in the adoption field. Recommended by MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: "We had an amazing guest on the MHP show about a year ago who is white and raising black adopted children, Rachel Garlinghouse. I love her book Come Rain or Come Shine: A White Parent's Guide to Adopting and Parenting Black Children." (from Jezebel, Melissa Harris-Perry Answers Your Questions, 4/6/14)



The Hopeful Mom's Guide to Adoption

Author : Rachel Garlinghouse

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 49,88 MB

Release : 2017-09-09

Category : Adoption

ISBN : 9781546929918

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Book Description

Guide to becoming a parent through adoption.



In on it

Author : Elisabeth O'Toole

Publisher : Fig Press, LLC

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,25 MB

Release : 2010-10

Category : Adoption

ISBN : 9780982876503

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One adoption social worker called In On It "the adoption book for everyone else": the grandparents and friends, neighbors and colleagues, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of adoptive families. In On It contains helpful advice and instructive anecdotes from adoptive parents, adult adoptees, adoption professionals, and the friends and relatives of already established adoptive families. The author, an adoptive parent herself, has written an informative, friendly and very useful adoption guide that informs and enlightens readers even as it offers them a warm welcome into adoption.



We Chose You

Author : Tony Dungy

Publisher : Harvest House Publishers

Page : 39 pages

File Size : 27,90 MB

Release : 2019-04-02

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0736973257

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Book Description

Every Family is Created by God God forms families in many different ways and sizes, but all are equally important and special. When adopted son Calvin needs to tell about his family for a class assignment, he discovers his parents were praying for him long before they chose him. Not only that, but God chose them for Calvin. It wasn't by chance and it wasn't an accident. It was according to His plan. We Chose You was written to communicate to all children, whether birthed or adopted, that they are chosen. That they are secure. That they are loved. This is a message every child needs to hear. Let this book give you the words to tell your child about your family's unique story.



Finding Hope: A Birthmother's Journey Into the Light

Author : Hope O. Baker

Publisher :

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 22,55 MB

Release : 2019-10-29

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 9781544504865

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At twenty-one years old, Hope O Baker made one of the hardest decisions a person can make: she placed her son for adoption. She lived with her son's adoptive mother while she was pregnant and pursued an open adoption. After her son was born, Hope tried to resume her life. But the difficulty of letting her child go gnawed at Hope. Even though she had it together on the outside--graduating college and excelling in her career--on the inside she was battling a destructive cycle of depression and addiction. When life was at its darkest, Hope managed to find her way back to the light. It's a journey she continues to this day. Now, in this love letter to her son, Hope shows how messy and chaotically beautiful adoption can be, by sharing the authentic details of her remarkable story. From her struggles, you'll see how community can help you rebuild and be reminded of how important it is to find your voice and speak up for what you need when life hands you unexpected difficulties.



Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother

Author : Jana Wolff

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 28,34 MB

Release : 2010-01-10

Category : Adoption

ISBN : 9780967214313

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While books about adoption proliferate, none of them addresses the subject of open and interracial adoption like Jana Wolff's personal and frank account does in [i]Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother[/i]. Often irreverent, always insightful, surprisingly funny and stunningly honest, [i]Secret Thoughts[/i] tells it like it is: How it feels for a woman to look nothing like her child and to know the woman who does. This fiercely honest and funny book answers questions no one dares to ask: What if I don't like the child I get? Will she want the baby back? If this is the happiest day of my life, why am I so sad? Am I too white for a kid this black? Chapter titles include: The Myth of Bliss, Friendly Racism, Meeting Your Child's Mother, and Adopted Poop Doesn't Smell Any Different.