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When the New York Post published Tina Traster's essay about her difficulty bonding with her daughter, Julia, whom she and her husband had adopted from a Siberian orphanage, the seasoned journalist was shocked and overwhelmed by the response, both empathetic and angry. In this frank and honest memoir, Traster tells her full foreign-adoption story, from dealing with the bleak landscape and the inscrutable and withholding adoption handlers in Siberia,...
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At the age of four, because of the Easter bombings in May 1941, we were bombed out of our beautiful home and evacuated to a farm thirty miles north of Belfast, Northern Ireland. A year or so later, we returned and lived in a very deprived area in the city. My father, an old soldier, was an alcoholic who smoked in the region of a thousand cigarettes a week, so, the cupboards were bare and family life broke down. My mother had little or no money for...
3) The Forgotten Adoption Option: A Self-Reflection and How-To Guide for Pursuing Foster Care Adoption
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120,000 U.S. children who are ready to be adopted are hoping you'll pick up this book. Have you ever thought you'd adopt a child, but finding out it costs thousands of dollars kicked that idea to the curb? Most people believe that all children in foster care return to their biological families. Many do not know that 50% of children in foster care need an adoptive family and that adopting children through foster care costs $0 - $2,500.
Countless times...
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Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind and how trauma alters children's behavioral responses. The first four chapters help parents and professionals clearly understand the neurological research behind the basic model given in this book, deemed, 'The Stress Model.' While scientifically based in research, it is written in an easy to understand and easy to grasp format for anyone working with or...
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There are over 45 topics in this book to help you with deciding and applying to go this route, getting through the training, home study, legal, and matching processes, and to equip you with practical insights for the parenting journey.
Inside you'll learn:
- what foster care adoption is and which children can be adopted
- why some families waited and how some pursued this path after facing infertility
- how some had to be persistent and how...
6) See No Color
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Being a biracial girl adopted by a white family didn't used to bother Alex. All that mattered was being her father's baseball star-until that status slips. Now she's questioning her identity. Black or white-where does she fit in?
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My Tree Had No Leaves is the true story of an adoptee's struggle to find his true self. Through a relationship with Christ, the author becomes vulnerable as he shares the story of finding his biological family. The story takes you on a journey of struggle, the softening of his heart, and his accepting the reality of adoption. As the author "changes the relationship he has with his life," acceptance, understanding, and grace lead him to a discovery...
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From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams' keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
Here you will find sorrow and joy inextricably linked in a captivating verse that is ultimately a celebration...
9) You Are Me
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If you need hope, you need to read this book. You Are Me is a fascinating, heartening true story of one person's journey from becoming crippled with amnesia by a car accident to recovering and becoming a parent to children who each needed a second chance at life.
Our protagonist had the life he had always dreamed of-a great job, a partner, a nice home, and a great set of friends-a life many people dream of. At twenty-seven, a car accident left him...
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Mikie and the Great Kitten Christmas: The Story of a Little Cat Who Brought Peace and Joy to a VillageMikie is no ordinary little cat. As he settles into village life after being rescued as a kitten, he is shocked to find that not all cats are as friendly as he had expected. When his sister, Polly, is attacked by farm cats and his feline friends decide to fight back, Mikie takes matters into his own paws to try and quietly save the day. Will he succeed...
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Adoption Joys: They Expected a Miracle gives God's plan for unplanned pregnancies as it shares encouraging true stories of the joys adoptive couples have found in adoption. Young, unmarried, single women who have found themselves in an unplanned pregnancy are also encouraged with the truth that these couples love them unconditionally over all the years to come. The baby is welcomed, of course, but not more so than the birth mom. The adoptive couples...
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No No Nola Spicolla is a book about a baby goat or "kid" who must live with a foster family for a period as her mother is unable to care for her. This mirrors the need for foster care in human children due to child abuse, neglect, domestic violence, or addiction. The author wants children to know that out of home placement is never the child's fault and there are loving families that can help bridge the gap from dysfunction to the collective goal...
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When five-year-old Ben's family decided to become a registered foster home, they knew it would be a tough but rewarding road ahead of them. What they may not have fully anticipated was the judgment coming at them from so many directions. Ben and his younger sister and parents were the picture of a biological nuclear family. Many in their circle insisted that bringing foster children into Ben and Annabelle's lives would significantly harm their...
14) Time to Come Off The Porch: Journey of Healing from the Wounds of Kinship Care in the Black Family
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Time to Come Off the Porch: Journey of Healing from the Wounds of Kinship Care in the Black Family explores the relational problems experienced by African-American women reared in the system of "kinship care." This book outlines the history of the Black family, describes attachment issues and familial struggles in kinship care, shares future hopes for the kinship care system, offers support to those from similar situations, while providing a personal...
15) According to Me
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Step inside the world of a woman who has been on a journey before she even knew it started, from the day she was born, July 7, 1968, in Florida.
She began her life in one state, with one path defined by people she would not even know until she was an adult and some she would never know at all. That path would take her out of that state, and that period throughout childhood, some pitfalls, and the huge life-changing reveal that would collapse her...
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Arrive. Endure. Age out. Three challenges in the life of a foster child.
The first few hours in foster care can last a lifetime...
Taken from their broken homes, the foster care system owned them now. From the first day, the girls faced reminders that they were discards. They saw it in the cold expressions of the housemothers, the sudden empty locker in the dorm, the look of defeat when a girl lost a
hastily made ally. The older ones felt it when...
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The problem with discovering your roots is that the more digging you do, the dirtier you can get. Adopted into middle-class urban respectability, but with origins deep in the heart of a dramatic rural landscape, BRONCLE is a personal journey of discovery intrinsically linked to the bloody past of Ireland; a true story of smuggling, heartbreak, betrayal, adultery, and lifetime of deception and secrecy.
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Business Leader Bob Danzig never forgot his childhood in foster care. In Conversations with Bobby, he reconnects with the foster child he was so many years ago. What follows is a deeply personal story, which reveals how the challenges Bob faced growing up shaped his career and ultimately, seeded his success. An inspiring reminder for both children and adults. Regardless of past hardships, we each have the potential to reach higher and excel.
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I write fiction. I make up stories.
This is not one of them.
This story is true. Some minor details have been altered and names changed, but the story itself is true. At some point, you won't believe it. Hell, I don't believe some of it and I was there. It's a story about crises. It's about resolution, about life prevailing. It's about adoption.
This is not a step-by-step guide on how to turn lemons into lemonade. I'm not an expert in crisis management...
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Pregnant and alone, I felt abortion was my only option. When I couldn't bring myself to go through with the abortion, I set out on a lifetime's journey as a Jewish birth mother. Twenty-plus years later, I not only speak to other women about being a Jewish Birthmother and my experience with adoption, but I also discuss my fight through the life in which I have lived.
I ran from telling my story because of the shame - ashamed of myself and afraid...
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