Author : Evelyn Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780987193117
Robinson describes--from a new and exciting perspective--why those who have been separated by family members through adoption often feel a desire to seek them out and also why certain issues arise when such reunions do occur. The text is full of practical suggestions based on her personal experience of adoption separation and reunion and also her extensive counselling career in post-adoption work with adults.
Author : Shanta Everington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000888703
Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners – the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors – who make motherhood possible for them. Exploring experiences of motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child, Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women who become mothers through surrogacy. Offering a fresh approach to life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview, re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in motherhood studies, gender and women’s studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history and ethnography studies.
Author : Mirah Riben
Publisher : THE STORK MARKET
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781427608956
An in-depth examination of the corruption in the adoption industry; the fine line between black and gray market adoption; scams, coercion and exploitation; international adoption; foster care. Foreword by Evelyn Robinson, author, MA, Dip Ed, BSW. Myths that prevail in adoption primarily to replicate motherhood are examined. Myriad of adoption experts are interviewed and quoted throughout who agree that adoption has changed from being child-centered and altruistic social arrangement to one of finding solutions for the medical problem of infertility, putting the needs of adults, and those who profit from their desperation, before the needs of children who need homes. The conclusion asks if adoption can be fixed - the money aspect removed and government controls and regulations put in place - or abolished in favor of permanent guardianship, or informal adoption that does not involve the issuance of a falsified birth certificate present in current adoption to fortify myths of replicating creation. 284 pages 300 footnotes and indexed.
Author : Evelyn Robinson Oam
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781729855379
Evelyn Robinson, OAM has written four books about adoption separation and reunion. 'Adoption and Recovery - Solving the mystery of reunion' is her second book. After publishing 'Adoption and Loss - The Hidden Grief', Evelyn was contacted by many who had read and been deeply affected by it. Evelyn subsequently travelled within Australia and in New Zealand, the United States, Canada, England, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Romania and South Korea presenting seminars and conference papers and meeting those who had a personal experience of adoption, as well as therapists working in post-adoption counselling. Evelyn became aware, from all of those interactions, that many were struggling to understand what drove those who had been separated from family members by adoption to seek them out later in life and by the issues which arose when reunions occurred. Evelyn has written this book in the hope of supporting and enlightening those people. 'Adoption and Recovery - Solving the mystery of reunion' is the first book to explain the dynamics of the reunion experience within a grief framework. The book was published in 2004 and updated in 2018.
Author : Evelyn Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,73 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 : Gary Coles
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 9780646431932
A pioneering work, this text on one level is a father's personal story of the parallel searches for himself and his son. It is also a comprehensive account of the repercussions of an adoption for all members of the separated family, but in particular the father.
Author : Sherrie Eldridge
Publisher : Delta
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0307570819
"Birthdays may be difficult for me." "I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family." "When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me." "I am afraid you will abandon me." The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents. Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child--and within the adoptive home.
Author : Evelyn Robinson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781729816882
Evelyn Robinson, OAM, has written four books about adoption separation and reunion. This is her first book. What becomes of women who are separated from their children by adoption? Why do so many adopted people feel such a strong desire to seek out their families of origin? In what ways are families with adopted children different from other families? This book by Evelyn Robinson provides the answers to these questions and many others.'Adoption and Loss - The Hidden Grief' was first published in 2000. A revised edition was published in 2003 and the 21st Century edition was published in 2018.
Author : Nicky Campbell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 033054117X
From the presenter of ITV1's Long Lost Family and the bestselling author of One of the Family, comes a moving and honest book about Nicky Campbell's own search for his birth parents. 'Blue-Eyed Son is a personal history, but its themes - family, self-identity and filial love – are universal' – Daily Mail Raised in a comfortable middle-class home, Nicky Campbell's Scottish Protestant family cared for and nurtured him as their own, while remaining open about the fact that he'd been adopted. His father – an ex-army man – and his mother helped him to a good school and a good university. Nicky rarely thought of his birth parents, until a combination of an imploding marriage and a chance meeting with a private detective led him to track down his birth mother. Nicky Campbell brilliantly recalls their reunion and tentative steps towards a relationship, evoking all the complex and deep-seated emotions that being reunited elicited in each of them. But it soon became clear that there was more to Nicky's background than he expected. In this emotionally gripping and refreshingly honest memoir, Nicky Campbell describes the many sides of a family's dark history, and how it feels to find out where you come from. 'A deeply personal book. A fascinating story and a wonderful read' – Michael Parkinson 'An extraordinary story' – Independent
Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0698176936
A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
