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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
by Ann Fessler  Publisher Comments A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade. In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of...
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Lost Boy : a Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family (97 Edition)
by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother...
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Hope's Boy
by Andrew Bridge Publisher Comments In his memoir, Andrew Bridge reflects with acute perception and openness on a devestating young life. At 7-years-old, Andrew was forced into foster care after authorities declared his mother Hope unfit to raise him.& nbsp; Barely an adult herself and...
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Kid : What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided To Go Get Pregnant (00 Edition)
by Dan Savage Publisher Comments From Dan Savage, the writer whose sex-advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites four million people every week, comes the compelling and unexpected story of this journey into parenthood. Dan and his boyfriend, Terry, want a baby. So they do...
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Whole Life Adoption Book
by Jayne E Schooler Synopsis This adoption resource contains a large amount of practical yet thoughtful advice and brings to the attention of adoptive or potential adoptive parent considerations that may not have been obvious before reading the book. (Relationships)...
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The Lucky Ones: Our Stories of Adopting Children from China
by Ann Rauhala Publisher Comments What a lucky girl Everybody who has adopted a daughter from China has heard that one. And every parent has said, or thought, in reply: No, we're the lucky ones. This anthology sets out to explain why people who have adopted children from China feel as...
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The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption: Everything You Need to Know about Domestic and International Adoption
by Elizabeth Sw Falker Publisher Comments A comprehensive overview of the entire adoption process guides prospective parents through the ins and outs of international and domestic adoption, offering helpful checklists, sidebars, and tips as it offers advice on how to avoid exploitative agencies,...
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Another Place at the Table
by Kathy Harrison Publisher Comments The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent. For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons...
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Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (99 Edition)
by Eldridge Synopsis Written by a woman who was an adopted child, this work highlights the 20 most important issues adopted children face, and is filled with powerful, poignant insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case...
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China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
by Jeff Gammage Publisher Comments After eighteen years together, Christine and I are down to our last hour as a couple. By dinner we will be a threesome. It seems strange to stand so firmly atop a generational fault line, to know that in an hour you'll be a parent, to understand that...
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"Are Those Kids Yours?"
by Cherie Register Synopsis Cherie Register drawns on her experience as the mother of two Korean-born daughters and interviews with adoptive families to illustated the special challenges multicultural families face....
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Connecting with Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children
by Denise B Lacher Synopsis Children whose early development has been damaged by abuse or neglect are notoriously difficult to reach. Through many years? therapeutic work with adopted children and their families, the Family Attachment Center of Minnesota has developed an exciting...
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Inside Transracial Adoption
by Gail Steinberg Synopsis At last! The co-directors of Pact: An Adoption Alliance offer their dynamic organization's cutting edge tools for fostering honesty and authenticity in matters of adoption and race. Acknowledging white identity issues for transracial adopters and...
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Real Parents Real Children
by Holly Van Gulden Publisher Comments Required reading for adoptive families, those considering adoption, or professionals in the field. This practical, informative book covers topics of vital importance to adoptive parents with sensitivity and insight. The authors bring years of experience...
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Three Little Words: A Memoir
by Ashl Rhodes Courter Publisher Comments "Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals...
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The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption
by Barbara Bisantz Raymond Publisher Comments For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee, selling her charges--often neglected, abused, and stolen from their birth parents--to wealthy clients nationwide, Joan Crawford among them. Drawing...
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The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System: Youth Communication
by Youth Communication Synopsis How well can a bureaucracy replace the family? For the more than 450,000 children living in foster care, this question is crucial. Yet, when the public tries to peer into this largely hidden world, administrators frequently invoke the need for...
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The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
by Karyn Purvis Publisher Comments "...an extremely useful parenting handbook... truly outstanding ... strongly recommended." --Library Journal (starred review) "A tremendous resource for parents and professionals alike." --Thomas Atwood, president and CEO, National Council for Adoption...
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Adoption Is for Always
by Linda Walvoord Girard Synopsis A five-year-old girl, Celia, knows she is adopted. But she is confused and angry, and her parents must deal with her many questions in an honest and loving way. Information about adoption a young child can understand is integrated into the text....
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Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent's Guide
by Lois Ruskai Melina Publisher Comments When to tell, What to tell, and How to tellChildren who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted...
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