Book Description
Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.
Author : Mary Watkins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780300063172
Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.
Author : Marianne Richmond
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 1402269455
"Mama," said Barley. "Tell me again how I'm your wish come true."Thus begins this beautiful story for adoptive families. I Wished for You: An Adoption Story follows a conversation between a little bear named Barley and his Mama as they curl up in their favorite cuddle spot and talk about how they became a family. Barley asks Mama the kinds of questions many adopted children have, and Mama lovingly answers them all. With endearing prose and charming watercolor illustrations, I Wished for You is a cozy read that affirms how love is what truly makes a family.
Author : Delilah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1948122154
“You’re listening to Delilah.” Delilah, the most listened-to woman on American radio, has distinguished herself as the “Queen of Sappy Love Songs” and America’s ultimate romance guru. But Delilah’s life off-air is all the more extraordinary—a life full of trials, forgiveness, faith, and adventure. In One Heart at a Time, Delilah’s heartfelt account of her own story reveals what shaped the voice that 9 million listeners know and love. Today, Delilah is the founder of an NGO called Point Hope, the owner of a 55-acre working farm, and an inductee of the National Radio Hall of Fame. But to achieve this, she often had to pave her own way. Disowned by her father, divorced, and fired from a dozen jobs over the years, Delilah pushed forward through family addiction and devastating loss, through glass ceilings and red tape. Her consistent goal to help those in need took her everywhere from the streets of Philadelphia to refugee camps in Ghana. Along the way, Delilah was blessed by thirteen children—ten of them adopted. Though many of them contend with special needs and the forever effects of a broken foster care system, her children have been able to transform their own remarkable lessons into guiding lights for other kids in need. Just as Delilah has done. One Heart at a Time exposes the real woman behind the microphone. In her easy-going style and characteristic, beloved voice, Delilah tells her deeply moving life story as the series of miracles it is.
Author : Julie Nelson
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575427419
“Kids are important… They need safe places to live, and safe places to play.” For some kids, this means living with foster parents. In simple words and full-color illustrations, this book explains why some kids move to foster homes, what foster parents do, and ways kids might feel during foster care. Children often believe that they are in foster care because they are “bad.” This book makes it clear that the troubles in their lives are not their fault; the message throughout is one of hope and support. Includes resources and information for parents, foster parents, social workers, counselors, and teachers.
Author : Arleta James
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0857006436
What about the kids already there? How do they do when a child with a challenging past joins a family by adoption? When experienced parents decide to adopt an older child or a sibling group, they jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops â?? background checks, interviews, group meetings, reading assignments, classes, etc. But most often the typically developing children these adults are already parenting (whether through birth or adoption) are left out of the process, informed that a new kid is coming, and simply expected to â??adjustâ?? to the addition of another sibling. The addition of a child with a history of neglect or trauma cannot be a seamless transition. The expectations of everyone involved â?? parents, new siblings, and, yes, professionals facilitating the adoption â?? must be realistic, taking into account that the new child will need special attention that may take away time and attention from the already resident kids, that family life is likely to be turned topsy turvy until appropriate counseling and support are in place, that relationships will change. Therapist Arleta James is certainly not the first person to recognize this, but she is the first to do something about it. Brothers and Sisters in Adoption offers insights and examples and sturdy, practical, proven tools for helping newly configured families prepare, accept, react, and mobilize to become a new and different family meeting the practical, physical and emotional needs of all its members. These well prepared and supported families are the ones who thrive!
Author : Gail Kinn
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781579651527
First-person accounts by birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children examines how adoption, including open and multiracial adoption, impacts individuals and families, and reveals the frustration, joy, and expectations.
Author : Elinor B. Rosenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1451602480
Adoption remains a subject of intense controversy. Some groups call for the abolition of adoption altogether as an outmoded social institution that fails to meet the needs of any of the members involved, while others propose major changes in our social and legal systems. Yet few reformers have been able to reach a consensus, or to provide concrete solutions to the problems they describe. In this first book to take into account all the core issues surrounding the adoption debate, Elisor Rosenberg throws light on what adoption means for all three members of the triad—adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents—at every stage of life. Drawing on extensive case examples, she examines the ways in which the triad members’ lives interact with and affect each other in the course of their lifetimes, and offers direct, practical advice on handling the issues and conflicts that often arise. The continued mourning of birth parents, the difficult behavior of a child who tests the bounds of an adoptive parent’s love and acceptance, and the numerous developmental hurdles of adoptive parents are just some of the issues which Rosenberg addresses.
Author : Lori Askeland
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
"Divided into three sections, this collection of original essays reviews the practice of adoption, orphanage placement and foster care from the colonial period to the present day. Featuring a strong focus on developments in the 20th century, the book also covers representations of orphans that have populated children's literature, from the folk tales of many different cultures, to films that constitute part of the cultural inheritance of American children. Selected primary documents, including materials by children, as well as an in-depth bibliographic section, provide crucial information and insight for high school and college students, social workers, journalists, and the general reader."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 9781581103229
In Adoption Medicine: A Manual for Those Caring for Children and Families, leading experts provide data and guidance for health professionals on a wide variety of adoption medicine topics. The first part of the book covers the process of adoption, including historical perspectives and legal issues. Then, individual chapters focus in on common health concerns for adopted children, such as behavior, speech, and maltreatment issues. Additional chapters tackle long-term support for adopted children and their families, including school issues and search for identity.
Author : Scott Simon
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1400068495
The NPR Weekend Edition host explores the cultural impact of adoption while sharing the story of how his wife and he adopted two daughters, in an account that also relates the experiences of other prominent figures who were adopted or became adoptive parents.