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Twenty Things Adoptive Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Sherrie Eldridge
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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.
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The Whole Life Adoption Book, Revised and Updated
Jayne E. Schooler, Thomas Atwood
Retail Price: $17.99
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Considered required reading for prospective parents, Schooler and Atwood's revised guide presents updated information on the step-by-step adoption process, both domestically and internationally. Learn what to consider before you adopt; understand effects of trauma; examine the impact on birth children; create a nurturing family environment; and more. A trusted source of compassionate and practical advice.
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Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families
Natalie Nichols Gillespie
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Have you felt there's an empty place in your family, but the process of adoption seemed too daunting? Find answers to demystify adoption and discover if it's right for your family, how to pay for it, where to find the right agency and how to make sense of the paperwork. It's just a few of the issues covered at length in this essential guidebook for bringing a little one to your doorstep.
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My Adopted Child, There's No One Like You
Dr. Kevin Leman, Kevin Leman II
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This delightful story, filled with colorful illustrations, is designed to be read by parents and their adopted children with one goal in mind: to show them just how special and loved they are. Your child will realize that while your family is "different," it is a family built on love both from the birth mother who gave them up for adoption and the adoptive family who chose them. Perfect for children ages 3 and up.
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Small Town, Big Miracle: How Love Came to the Least of These
W.C. Martin
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This gut-wrenching, heart-affirming book tells the tale of the families of Bennett Chapel who adopted 72 of the toughest kids in the foster care system and changed their lives forever. One church, 72 children. This is their story-a story of the power of redemption and love that will move and inspire you. Eight pages of photos from the families of Possum Trot.
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The Adoption Decision: 15 Things You Want to Know Before Adopting
Laura Christianson
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Before you make the decision to adopt it's wise to know how adopting will affect your daily life. How will it affect your other children and your marriage? What will be the roll of the birth parents? Here are 15 important questions - and answers - to help you make the right choice in adopting. Includes questions for discussion and reflection - ideal for personal or group study - and additional recommended resources.
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Questions Adoptees Are Asking
Sherrie Eldridge
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Blending practical advice with personal experience, Questions Adoptees Are Asking is a helpful resource that will assist adoptees and their families with identity issues and the truth about God's love for them regardless of their situation. Author Sherrie Eldridge shares her interviews with more than seventy adoptees where questions such as Does my birth mother ever think about me? and Why is it so uncomfortable to talk with my parents about my birth family?. This recently revised and updated version provides assistance for adoptees searching for answers. Paperback.
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Adopting the Hurt Child, Revised and Updated
Gregory C. Keck Ph.D., Regina M. Kupecky LSW
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Help heal the pain of an adopted child's trauma or a foster child's hurt so he can learn to love again in a healthy way. In this revised and updated guide of Adopting the Hurt Child, authors Gregory C. Keck, PhD and Regina M. Kupecky, LSW provide you with advice, tips, and real life stories to inspire and encourage you on your parenting journey. Paperback.
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The Whole Life Adoption Book
Jayne E. Schooler
Retail Price: $14.99
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Adoptive families deal with a special dynamic that affects parents, adopted children, and birth children. And they face unique issues of attachment, adjustment, and identity. This book discusses: Critical questions to consider before you adopt; how to develop the crucial parent-child bond; handling the special challenges of transcultural adoption; ten essential success factors for healthy adoptive families; how to help your child deal with memories of the past; responding to your adopted adolescent's unique struggles; how to cope with feelings of inadequacy or frustration; why adopted children seek their roots and how to respond. This book will give hope and direction to those considering adoption and to those desiring to improve and develop the adoptive family relationship at any stage.
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Loved By Choice: True Stories that Celebrate Adoption
Susan Horner, Kelly Fordyce Martindale
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Loved by Choice offers a clear and uplifting look at adoption from virtually every perspective. It is comprised of true stories that reflect the joys and the difficulties of those touched by adoption. Families working out an overseas adoption, those creating interracial families, grandparents, birth mothers, and even birth fathers are among the many who tell their stories. Two appendices define adoption terms and outline resources that will be helpful to those exploring adoption. The emphasis of Loved by Choice, though, is to demonstrate how adoption can conplete a family. It's a poignant celebration of adoption, led by those who understand it best. This book's pro-life, positive, and upbeat message will be a welcomed source for women facing pregnancy choices, anyone working with unwed mothers, adoptees, adoption advocates, couples considering adoption, and anyone else interested in stories that celebrate adoption. It is an ideal book for bookstores and libraries to display in November, which is Adoption Awareness Month. Loved by Choice will also be popular at many adoption-related conferences, book readings, and fairs that take place around the world.
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Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
Gregory C. Keck Ph.D., Regina Kupecky
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Adoption of a child is a wonderful event. But some adoptees arrive with hurts from the past that can affect an entire family. With time, patience, and informed parenting, your adopted child can heal, grow, and develop beyond what seems possible now. Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky explain how to manage a hurting child with loving wisdom, resolve, and success, and how to preserve your stability while untangling a thorny heart.
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The Adoption Network: Your Guide to Starting a Support System
Laura Christianson
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In The Adoption Network, Laura Christianson, founder and director of Seattle-based Heartbeat Ministries, walks you through the basics of planning and launching a support system for adoptive families, foster families, birth parents, or adoptees. Packed with practical pointers and worksheets, this handbook will equip you with the tools you need to create a vibrant adoption support network.
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Meditations for Adoptive Parents
Vernell Klassen Miller
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Using her family experiences, the author, weaves many threads into the fabric of these meditations on adoption. She includes theories about bonding to infants and older children, the stages in relinquishment and adoption, how "entitlement" happens, and the advantages of the adoption.
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Parenting Adopted Adolescents
Gregory C. Keck Ph.D.
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Understand your role in your adopted adolescent's journey and you will become a better parent. In Parenting Adopted Adolescents by Gr. Gregory C. Keck - adoptive parent, adoptive expert, and psychologist - he offers parents of adoptive teens encouragement and support in the form of insight, suggestions, and tips for managing difficult scenarios that arise. He also includes chapters addressing the special needs of transracial and transcultural adoptions. Paperback.
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