Adoption Books For Parents

The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family (Paperback)

Review

Schooler’s strength lies in her relating the emotional issues of adoption: identity, grief and barriers to attachment…As a mother of four adopted sons, I found this book to be beneficial. — Katrina Schmitz, Christian Retailing, April 15, 1993
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The Adoption Mystique: A Hard-Hitting Exposé of the Powerful Negative Social Stigma That Permeates Child Adoption in the United States (Hardcover)

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A-dop-tion Mys-tique: n. Cultural framework surrounding adoption policy, law and practice; the beliefs, myths and attitudes that enhance it with meaning, value, and mystery.THE ADOPTION MYSTIQUEexposes, documents and confronts the effects of negative social (more…)

The Complete Adoption Book: Everything You Need to Know to Adopt a Child (Paperback)

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A thorough resource for couples who want to adopt a child takes readers through each step in the adoption process, from choosing an agency to bringing a child home, and discusses international adoptions, state requirements, medical issues, and other topics. (more…)

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents (Hardcover)

Amazon.com Review

Proper attachment is the most fundamental issue in a successful adoption, but what exactly does the term mean? Attaching in Adoption answers that question thoroughly, and it provides solutions to a variety of specific attachment problems. Along with technic (more…)

The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family (Kindle Edition)

Review

Schooler’s strength lies in her relating the emotional issues of adoption: identity, grief and barriers to attachment…As a mother of four adopted sons, I found this book to be beneficial. — Katrina Schmitz, Christian Retailing, April 15, 1993

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Success as a Foster Parent: Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care (Paperback)

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Change a child’s life! Reap the rewards of becoming a foster parent. Over 600,000 American children are in the foster care system each year-and the number is growing. So is the number of good-hearted people willing to become foster parents. But what does it take t (more…)

For Keeps (1988)

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Although not made as a TV movie of the week, it may as well have been. Molly Ringwald plays an industrious teen headed for college who finds herself pregnant and heading toward disaster in this trite morality play. She pouts and cries a lot; she tries to make everything be (more…)

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)

From Library Journal

As both an adoptee and president of Jewel Among Jewels Adoption Network, Eldridge brings an original approach to the topic of adoption. In an attempt to inform adoptive parents of the unique issues adoptees face, she discusses adoptee anger, mourning, and shame a (more…)

Forever Lily: An Unexpected Mother’s Journey to Adoption in China (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly

Russell was asked by a friend, Alex, to accompany her to China to help her pick up the baby she and her husband were adopting. While parents usually make the trip together, Alex’s husband had to stay home to care for another child. Russell didn’t know Alex all (more…)

Adoption: Your Step-by-Step Guide (Paperback)

Review

Adoption:Your Step-by-Step Guide contains a wealth of information for those seeking to adopt or anyone involved in the process. — Larry J. Arkfeld, Attorney at LawFinally, a book that gives my listeners a safe guide to finding the resources necessary to be successful in adop (more…)