Adoption
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A History of Adoption in England and Wales 1850- 1961
Adoption is one of the most emotive and complex subjects in social and family history. Gill Rossini’s social history of adoption between 1850 and 1961 uncovers the perspectives of all those concerned in adoption: children, birth relatives, adoptive families, and all the agencies and organisations involved. Rossini charts the transformation of the adoption process from a chaotic informal arrangement to a legal procedure. Set against the backdrop of the moral, cultural, and legal climate of the times, the contemporary voices of those who played a part in an adoption give real insights into this often turbulent period in their lives. Discover how shocking stories of baby farmers and unwanted orphans fuelled the campaign for change, and hear previously untold stories.For those who wish to conduct their own research into an adoption, Rossini has compiled a comprehensive guide to resources.Read more
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Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches (Updated and Expanded Edition)
The doctrine of adoption―God’s decision to adopt sinful men and women into his family―stands at the heart of Christianity. In light of this, Christians’ efforts to adopt beautifully illustrate the truth of the gospel. In this popular-level and practical manifesto, Russell Moore encourages Christians to adopt children and to help other Christian families to do the same. He shows that adoption is not just about couples who have struggled to have children. Rather, it’s about an entire culture within evangelicalism―a culture that sees adoption as part of the Great Commission mandate and as a sign of the gospel itself.
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Adopting a Child (9th Edition): A Guide for People Interested in Adoption
This is the book for anyone who has ever thought about adopting a child and wondered what it would involve. BAAF’s best-selling guide describes what adoption means and how to go about it. This edition has been thoroughly revised following the new Adoption Standards for England and contains a new section on step-parent adoption. This is a true beginner s guide, which is regularly revised and updated and includes a full agency list.Read more
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Adopting a Child: A Guide for People Interested in Adoption
A new, updated edition of this best-selling guide to adoption. This is the book for anyone who has ever thought about adopting a child and wondered what it would involve.Read more
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Adoption and Loss: The Hidden Grief 21st Century Edition
Evelyn Robinson, OAM, has written four books about adoption separation and reunion. This is her first book. What becomes of women who are separated from their children by adoption? Why do so many adopted people feel such a strong desire to seek out their families of origin? In what ways are families with adopted children different from other families? This book by Evelyn Robinson provides the answers to these questions and many others.‘Adoption and Loss – The Hidden Grief’ was first published in 2000. A revised edition was published in 2003 and the 21st Century edition was published in 2018.Read more
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Adoption Gifts for Adoptive Parents Adoption Took Time Love Arrived Instantly.: Blank Lined Journal | Foster Parent Gifts
It is a perfect gift for Adoptive Parents
Small diary/journal/notebook to write in. for creative writing. for creating lists, for Scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughtsMake an excellent gift idea for appreciation day, Christmas or any other occasion!
-Perfect sized at 6×9 inches
-110 page
-Softcover bookblinding
-Flexible Paperback
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Adoption Law: A Practical Guide
The Adoption and Children Act 2002, which sets out the statutory framework, contains 115 sections and 5 schedules. These provisions are supported by secondary legislation, international conventions, rules, guidance, practice notes and case law that has developed since the Act came into force. The paramount consideration in every decision relating to the adoption of a child is the child’s welfare throughout their life. In doing so the decision maker also has to consider and balance the competing rights protected under the European Convention on Human Rights of all parties in the adoption process and also the child’s rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Adoption Law: A Practical Guide seeks to provide a comprehensive guide to the law, practice and procedure for professionals as well as those who are concerned with or involved in the adoption process. It covers each stage of the adoption process, including the difficult issue of contact between the child and their birth parents and the alternative options available by reference to the relevant case law and regulations in relation to domestic adoptions as well as adoptions with a foreign element. Registration of adoption and the sensitive issue of disclosure of information are also considered. The book deals with the statutory obligations and responsibilities imposed on adoption agencies, support services and other professional bodies who are concerned with adoption towards all the parties, including the child who is the subject of the proceedings. It also outlines the rights of those parties to challenge decisions made by the professional bodies involved in the process.Read more
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Adoption Shower Guest Book: Cute Sign In Guest Book and Gift Log for Adoption Party with Space for Names, Advice for Parents and Wishes for the Little One, Keepsake Memory Journal
•Adoption shower guest book for boys – blue and black colors. Sign in keepsake journal for adoption parties to keep memories from the special day. Suitable for babies and small kids.
• Pages with space for guest name, advice for parents and wishes for the little one – one page per guest – space for up to 80 guests.
• Ten gift log pages at the end of the book to help with sending thank you cards and organizing the guest list.
• Matte Finish Paperback – Perfect Bound, 50 Sheets/100 Pages.
• 8.5″ x 8.5″ (21.59 x 21.59 cm) – Soft Cover
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Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptions: the adoptee, the adopters, and the birth parents.Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview more than 30 adoptees, 20 birth parents, a dozen adoptive parents, and several industry professionals―all sharing candidly about the challenges in adoption. While finding common ground in the sometimes-contentious space of adoption may seem like a lofty goal, it reveals the authors’ optimistic aim: working together with truth and transparency to move toward healing. Flipping the typical script, in which adoptive parents take the lion’s share of the narrative, this book leads with adoptee stories then moves on to stories of challenges and perspectives of birth parents―so often marginalized and silent. The third section offers narratives from adoptive parents who are working through their unique challenges. We also hear from adoption professionals, who share the challenges of operating ethically amid rampant unethical practices in the unregulated world of finding infants and children for homes. Finally, we hear from activists and adoption-competent therapists, offering their ideas to make adoption policies and practices better for all involved. Adoption is a beautiful experience but has challenges just like any other relationship or family system. The unique perspectives found here can help to smooth out the rough spots, celebrate the joys, and provide comfort and confirmation for everyone involved in the adoption journey.Read more
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An Adopter’s Guide to Adoption
A step-by-step guide to the adoption process in England written by an adoptive mum of two. The guide provides tips and information about how to prepare for the adoption process, what each stage of the assessment involves, how matching works and what happens once your child is home. The guide is packed full of information which is put into context with examples of the writer’s experience of the process.Read more
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From Gypsy to Jersey: An Adoption Journey
From Gypsy to Jersey, chronicles how my parents came to adopt me from Romania and how, all these years later, I followed the trail to my birth mother and made the journey back to Romania to connect with my Roma (Gypsy) family and roots. It also explores the conditions and history of the country around the time of my birth and what I learned about the Roma culture.
I am telling my story in the hopes of inspiring other adoptees and giving them the courage to learn more about their past.
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Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child
Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.
When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it is often hard to know how to play with a purpose. This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. All the games included are designed for specific age ranges, from infants to older children, and help to address particular needs in children that are known to affect attachment, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It provides an easy-to-understand description of attachment and reveals the crucial role that play has in forming attachments.
Written for parents and carers, as well as for use by professionals, it is full of strategies to help build healthy attachments in children who have experienced early trauma.
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In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends
In On It is the book for the grandparents and best friends, colleagues and neighbors, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of contemporary adoptive families. It offers advice, information and insights into contemporary adoption — especially for readers who are not themselves adoptive parents. In On It explains the decision-making processes that lead parents to adopt, the adoption process itself, and the important roles of loss and grief in adoption. It offers suggestions for appropriate adoption language and talking about adoption; overviews of transracial, open and older child adoption; guidance for readers who will find themselves representing and speaking on behalf of adoptive families; as well as illustrative anecdotes, suggestions from adoptive parents, and lists of “Ways You Can Help.” In On It extends an invitation into adoption–it is a friendly, welcoming and highly useful adoption resource.Read more
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My Dog Eats Plant Pots: Adoption breakdown and its impact on one absolutely normal family
The dream of a family, the inability to create one, after the IVF has failed, led to adoption for this perfectly normal pair. Their lives and that of their faithful canine companion were turned upside down and inside out, when they got astride the rollercoaster of the adoption process. Successfully leaping all the hurdles, being assessed as suitable adopters, they found two children they thought they could care for, and protect, and finally become Mummy and Daddy. The story of two little people, two big people and one slightly eccentric dog. But the fairy tale became a nightmare. When proud people who just didn’t do failure, had to admit defeat, when they finally brought themselves to ask for the help that was promised, and it was not there. How the system is broken, how the blame game begins and then never stops. How those who should be at the centre are rarely put there. A very personal and frank account of adoption failure, disruption, breakdown. It is sad, it is horrid, it hurts. It is happening now, more often than you think, and it needs to be talked about. An important read for potential or existing adopters, or anyone involved with families during or after the adoption process, this challenging account of what can go wrong raises questions over the process of adoption, and more importantly adoption support.Read more
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My Family, My Journey: A Baby Book for Adoptive Families (Susie Ghahremani)
For the growing audience of adoptive families, Chronicle Books is proud to offer a baby book thatsuits the wide array of experiences and choices that bring a family and their new child together. This lovely keepsake album contains sections to record all the joyful milestones and cherished family moments that mark a new baby’s life, pages to chart the adopted child’s unique journey, as well as a sturdy pocket in which to store important documents and memorabilia. Inside the pocket are over 60 stickers you can use to customize the family tree pages. As the pages of the journal fill with memories,My Family, My Journey will stand as a lasting testament of love for the entire family.Read more
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My Forever Family: from fostering to adoption
Follow Oliver as he goes through the ups and downs of the ‘Fostering to Adoption’ process. Simple, Easy to understand text for 2 to 6 year olds or children with limited understanding who are about to go through the fostering adoption processsimplified version for 2 to 6 year olds or children with limited understanding (Version 2 also available for 3 to 9 year olds).Being a foster carer myself, i struggled to find a simple way to explain the process to the young foster children in our care, Especially babies, toddlers and young children that were going into new ‘Forever’ Familys’. Then i came up with the idea for this book, a simple, easy to understand story of the basic process, It has helped myself and the children i care for by just giving them some idea of the adoption process and hopefully it will be of help to foster carers, adopting parent, social workers (and children) who also have to go through this traumatic time.Read more
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Navigating Foster Care and Adoption: A Comprehensive Guide to Fostering & Adopting Children: From Screening… to Placement… to Overcoming Obstacles and Building Loving Families
The requirements of the child being fostered as well as the life situation of the foster parent can both have a significant impact on the type of foster care that can be provided. Some children remain in foster care for only a few days or weeks at a time, whilst others may remain there for several months or even years at a time. Foster parents have the option of taking care of only one kid at a time, as well as taking care of numerous children at once, including siblings.Adoption may offer children who need a loving home with stability, security, and a feeling of belonging in their new family. Adopted children sometimes come from tough situations, such as households in which they were abused or neglected, and consequently, they may have suffered trauma or struggle with emotional challenges. These children may be given the love and support, as well as the secure and caring home environment that they need in order to recover and grow when they are adopted by loving families.
My desire to write an eBook about fostering and adoption is driven by a desire to share my experience and insights with others who may be considering fostering or adopting. My story can serve as a source of inspiration and guidance for others, providing practical advice and emotional support for those embarking on this challenging journey.
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Officially Adopted: Cute Teddybear Guest Book for Adoption Celebration Party to Sign in, Write Messages and Well Wishes, Gift Log, Invitation List,Photo Pages, Blue Theme
Officially Adopted Guest Book with a cute Teddybear Theme to create a memorable keepsake book to cherish forever for this special event.
Your guests can write their Wishes on these spacious lined Messages and Well Wishes Pages. If you are using Instant Photo Cameras you can add them to the many Blank Photo Pages. This book is a perfect addition to your adoption party decorations !
Leave on your arrival table or place copies around the room for your guests to write and help make a fun memento of the party.
Features of this Cute Officially Adopted Guest book are:
- Teddy Bear Theme
- Personalize the Introduction Page with your special event details.
- Guests to write their personal message and well wishes.
- Photo pages to place your instant photos of your friends or photos from your past!
- Gift Log Tracker Pages – help you organise your ‘Thank You Notes’
- Guest List / Invitation Pages A lovely reminder who came and celebrated your milestone birthday
- 109 Pages Size 8.5 Square
- If you have it available on your PC/Tablet you can see the decorated interior pages with the ‘Look Inside’ feature.
Have a wonderful celebratory party!
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Our Adoption Journey
This is the true story of Jayne, Dan, their son Charlie and their adoption of Jessie, a baby girl. Told by Jayne herself, this deeply personal memoir follows the joyful highs and heart-breaking lows of the journey that led them to their new adopted daughter. This book provides a fascinating insight into the adoption process, how it feels for those who are adopting, and how families are able to grow together.Read more
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Our adoption journey A keepsake journal: A large, beautiful and unique journal with 120 detailed pages to log your adoption experience
Ideal for those who plan to adopt or have adopted a childDetailed interior prompts to write notes, outline family trees, memories, letters from parents, milestones, and much more
Detailed interior prompts with itineraries, checklists, amenties, meal planners, memories tracker, and much more
Large 8.5″ x 11 size, 120 detailed pages to document special memories easily
Can also be the perfect gift for a loved one or friend who is adopting a child
Use this premium adoption journal to provide a beautiful keepsake for your adopted child
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Our Adoption Journey: A journal keepsake for adoption families
Chronicle every progressive happening from start to finalization of your adoption journey!You can choose to use 120 pages as you see fit:
– the decision to adopt
– journal entries of the adoption process
– drawn/written entries
– etc.!The sky is the limit to make this journal reflect your beautiful journey!
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Our Story by Mommy & Daddy: ~ Adoption Gift Baby Journal For New Adoptive Parents (Present for Adopting a Child, Celebrate New Member of The Family)
“Adoption is not the call to have the perfect rosy family. It is the call to give love, mercy, and patience.”
This adoption baby journal notebook is created to capture and record every moment of your beloved adopted children. It is packed with all features from the page to write the family tree, the page to write in the history of a child, space for family photos, behaviour, growing up photo checklist, physical records from the child was born, year in review and many more!
If you are looking for fully featured adoption book for your new baby or if you happen to know any new parents, this adoption books for adoptive parents is the best gift idea as a unique and meaningful present during their first day of having a new adopted baby or toddler.
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Book features:
- Family Tee Layout
- Birthday Layouts
- Baby Milestones
- Our Journey
- Love Letters from Mommy & Daddy
- Forever Family Page
- Photo layouts
- 8.5 x 11 size ~ handy size for daily commute
- 100 pages packed with interesting and fun ready-made layout for you to fill in
- Paperback with Glossy Stunning Cover
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Pineapple Promise: A Thailand Adoption Memoir
Love can oftentimes be the biggest motivator, and Holly and Vince’s amazing story featured in Pineapple Promise is no exception. Have you ever wondered what would prompt someone to take on such a huge commitment as adopting a child? With these two, it was love all the way. Despite having busy jobs, two children of their own, and living in an expensive region of the USA, they wanted to grow their family even more by adopting a daughter from Thailand – and seeing it through to success!If you’re looking for something witty yet meaningful, then look no further than Pineapple Promise. Written by Holly herself, this memoir takes you through her journey towards becoming adoptive parents – without her or Vince perceiving themselves as ‘saving’ anyone. Sweet, sometimes funny, and oh-so inspiring! Get a copy of Pineapple Promise today and enjoy an amazing story driven by nothing but love.
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Reuben’s Story: From birth to adoption: The story of an older child’s experiences in foster care, leading to adoption | Adoption gift | Adoptee story
Reuben is adopted when he is old enough to remember his time with his birth family, various foster care placements, and the transition to his adoptive family, after meeting his adoptive parent, Taylor, at an activity day. Reuben’s account is written in his own voice, which makes the story engaging and accessible to young readers.This book is based on a true story of a boy’s journey from birth, through foster care, to adoption, as an older child. It can be used to help older adopted children with life story work, where the events can be related to and compared to their personal experiences. It is also a useful teaching tool for inclusive classrooms, and can be used to normalise adoption and foster care.
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Sparkle’s Story: Thrown Away Children
Louise gets a frantic call to take in a damaged and destructive young girl. Separated from her siblings, Sparkle is hostile and angry.
A short while after settling in, Sparkle begins to identify as pansexual. A revolution is underway in the Allen household, with Sparkle’s transition motivating all of the young people to explore what becoming an adult means for them.
But it’s Sparkle’s escalating behaviour that causes concern.
Discovering a dark fact about Sparkle’s birth and the shocking events that the children in her house were part of, Louise is desperate for more help – and not just for the child in her care. As Sparkle’s erratic and violent behaviour increases, Louise finds herself and her homelife under serious threat.
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Supporting direct contact after adoption
A number of adopted children have direct contact with members of their birth family after adoption. But contact can be difficult to arrange and challenging for all those involved. This important research study outlines the first investigation of the government and council services established to support direct post-adoption contact. The study draws on the experiences of 51 adoptive parents, four long-term foster carers and 39 birth relatives, all of whom were involved in agency supported direct contact. Individual experiences of the challenges and benefits of direct contact are described, different models of contact are explored, and their costs, benefits and suitability described. Finally, the study sets out the implications for social work practice and what agencies can do to improve the contact experience. This study will be of particular interest to social workers and support workers in child and family teams, adoption and post-adoption support teams, legal professionals, child mental health professionals, adoption researchers and students.Read more
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That Picture of You: A dramatic real-life story of adoption and reunion
Few adoption memoirs can be as moving as this! That Picture Of You tells the story of Susan finding herself pregnant at the age of fifteen, and sent two hundred miles away to give birth in secret. When her baby is forcibly taken for adoption after just eight days, Susan grows to womanhood with no idea if her daughter is even. When she goes on tragically to suffer a miscarriage, a hospital counsellor encourages the playwright to set her grief out on the page. Half A Million Women is the result. But when the play is by pure coincidence performed on her long-lost daughter’s twenty-first birthday, no-one could possibly have imagined the real-life drama about to unfold off-stage. The remarkable real-life story made national headlines. That will come as no surprise when you read the dramatic events of the heart-wrenching reunion of mother and daughter. A truly dramatic story capturing spirit of time and place, this deeply moving and warmly funny book is ultimately, above all, joyful.Read more
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The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions (Therapeutic Parenting Books)
Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma. This book provides everything you need to know in order to be able to effectively therapeutically parent.
Providing a model of intervention, The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting gives parents or caregivers an easy to follow process to use when responding to issues with their children. The following A-Z covers 60 common problems parents face, from acting aggressively to difficulties with sleep, with advice on what might trigger these issues, and how to respond.
Easy to navigate and written in a straightforward style, this book is a ‘must have’ for all therapeutic parents.
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The Adoption Constellation: New Ways of Thinking About and Practicing Adoption
Clinical psychologist, Michael Grand, brings a compassionate understanding to all members of the adoption constellation. Drawing upon a lifetime of personal experience, research and clinical practice, he challenges conventional ways of thinking about adoption. The limitations of attachment theory as an explanation of adoption outcome are presented. In its place, he suggests a narrative understanding of adoption. Core themes of identity, grief, mattering and trust, permeate these narratives and shape the experience of members of the constellation. As a passionate advocate for openness, Grand explores the psychological costs of denying identifying information to adopted individuals and their birth kin. Parallels are also drawn to an impending crisis as offspring of assisted reproduction seek answers to their identity questions. The book concludes with a consideration of alternative permanency arrangements and a primer for opening closed adoption records. This book will change how we approach adoption in all of its manifestations. Adoptees, birth and adoptive kin, social workers, clergy, teachers, therapists, and legislators alike will find meaning within these pages.Read more
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The Adoption Reunion Handbook
The book describes the experiences that people have had when tracing their birth parents, as well as offering practical advice on how to go about searching and what to expect emotionally. Each section has an advice box which summarizes key points, notes issues to pay particular attention to, or offers draft letters that readers can adapt for their own needs. The appendix contains useful addresses and weblinks, and includes checklists for searching and for the reunion. Chapters include reunion with birth fathers and birth siblings, as well as with birth mothers, the relationship with the adoptive family and dealing with reunions that break down.Read more
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Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee (Stolen Lives)
“I was two when the woman I called Mummy told me, ‘You came out of another mummy’s tummy.’ I grew up thinking that my birth mother didn’t want me. I assumed there must’ve been something inherently wrong with me – why else would a mother give up her baby?”
In 1974, Liz Harvie – born Claire Elaine Watts – was given up for adoption by her birth mother Yvonne. Claire spent the first ten days of her life with Yvonne before being placed in a foster home. Almost eight weeks later, Claire’s adoptive parents collected her from the foster home – and renamed her Elizabeth.
Although brought up in a ‘perfect’ household, the emotional – and physical – trauma of being taken from her biological mother would never leave Liz. She constantly wondered: what does my real mum look like? Will she come back for me? Why did she abandon me?
Years later, aged 28, Liz reconnected with her birth mother – and finally learned the shocking truth surrounding her adoption. Yvonne had not abandoned her daughter. As a young unmarried mum, Yvonne had been deemed unfit as a parent and been made to give up her child against her will.
Liz was one of at least 185,000 victims of forced adoption between 1949 and 1976 in England and Wales. Although reunited, Liz and Yvonne are still struggling to cope with the agony resulting from their devastating separation.
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Wanted Chosen Adopted Loved: An Adoption Journal and Baby Book Gift For New Adoptive Parents And Child (Guided Journal with Prompts To Celebrate An Adoption|Couples and Single…
An Adoption Journal and Baby Book Gift For New Adoptive Parents And Child (Guided Journal with Prompts To Celebrate An Adoption|Couples and Single Mothers or Fathers). Record your memories, milestones and family story in this keepsake soft cover journal.Document your child’s growth with space to record: – Family tree – Birthday Layouts – Baby Milestones – Our Journey – Love Letters from Mommy & Daddy – Forever Family – Photos to remember – Your first year plus layouts for up to 5 years old!Monthly growth tracking, memory keeper and blank journal pages for recording your thoughts and memories!Read more
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Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted: Adoption Journal/Notebook for New Adoptive Parents (Gift/Present for Couples/Single Parents/Mothers/Gay/Lesbians) Adopt a Newborn Baby, Older…
A large blank lined journal (with a blank date space on the corner of every page), with a beautiful quote on the cover to celebrate the new child in your life. Makes a lovely gift for a loved one, sure to put a smile on their face.
SIZE: 8.5×11 inches (approximate a4)
PAPER: Lined Journal Paper With a Date Space
PAGES: 100
COVER: Soft Glossy Cover.
LoveFamily Publishing make beautiful and modern journals and notebooks to celebrate family life!
Titles Include:
- Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted
- Look At You Adopting a Child and Sh*t!
- My Adopting Experience
- Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted: Me and My Forever Family! (Young Kids Journal)
- Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted: My Adoption Experience: (Older Kids/Teen Journal)
- For This Child I Prayed, Samuel 1:27
- For With God Nothing Shall Be Impossible, Luke:1:37
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We Wished For You An Adoption Journal: A large, beautiful and unique journal with 120 detailed pages to log your adoption experience
Ideal for those who plan to adopt or have adopted a childDetailed interior prompts to write notes, outline family trees, memories, letters from parents, milestones, and much more
Detailed interior prompts with itineraries, checklists, amenties, meal planners, memories tracker, and much more
Large 8.5″ x 11 size, 120 detailed pages to document special memories easily
Can also be the perfect gift for a loved one or friend who is adopting a child
Use this premium adoption journal to provide a beautiful keepsake for your adopted child
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Welcoming a New Brother or Sister Through Adoption
Adoption is a big step which can change the whole dynamics of the family. It is crucial that parents understand the impact it has when new sibling relationships are forged and an adoptee becomes a part of the family.
Welcoming a New Brother or Sister through Adoption is a comprehensive yet accessible guide that describes the adoption process and the impact of adoption on every member of the family, including the adopted child. It prepares families to have realistic expectations and equips them with knowledge to deal with a host of situations that may arise, addressing difficult questions head-on: ‘Did we make the right choice by adopting?’, ‘How is this affecting our ‘typical’ children?’, ‘Will our adopted son or daughter heal?’ are explored and solutions discussed in detail. All this is accompanied with real life stories and direct quotes from children, which make it a realistic and insightful resource.
This book is vital reading for adoptive families and professionals who work with them including social workers, counselors and psychologists.
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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption–The Workbook: Practical Tools, Skills, and Prompts for Affirming Your Adopted Child’s Cultural Identity
A companion to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption, this practical workbook guides readers to better understand transracial adoption and do the work of anti-racist, trauma-informed parenting.A must-read for white parents who have transracially adopted or prospective parents considering transracial adoption, this follow-up to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption offers a wealth of activities, templates, and questions for self-reflection. Melissa Guida-Richards, who learned at the age of 19 that she was adopted from Colombia as an infant, addresses the complexities of transracial adoption with insight, compassion, and the wisdom of lived experience. Through thought-provoking questions and activities, Guida-Richards guides you to:
- Consider the role of infant-mother bonding and understand developmental trauma in adoptees
- Understand the complex history of adoption; recognize illegal and unethical practices, such as trafficking operations and baby factories; and ask the important questions when working with adoption agencies
- Look more deeply at implicit bias, white saviorism, and white fragility
- Locate and utilize adoption-competent mental health care
- Offer culturally aligned education, community, and resources to your child
- Acknowledge the effects of racism and celebrate your child’s race and culture
Throughout the workbook, Guida-Richards guides you to break free from toxic positivity, understand and drop defenses, engage in difficult conversations, and learn to listen to your child’s experience. Whether you are a potential parent considering a transracial adoption, a parent of an adopted child, or a therapist or advocate working with adoptive families, this practical and engaging workbook will help you “do the work” of furthering anti-racist, child-centered, and trauma-informed parenting.
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Yes, I’m Adopted!
“Yes, adoption makes me special, it means that I am loved…” This brightly colored children’s book illustrates how adoption is brought about by love. Written from a child’s point of view, the rhyming verse takes you through an adoption journey from start to finish. It is perfect for anyone, young or old, whose life has been blessed by adoption.Read more
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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.In You’ll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the turbulent 1960s to explore the oppression of young women who have committed the socially unacceptable crime of becoming pregnant without a ring on their finger. After being forced to give up her newborn son for adoption, Engel lives inside a fortress of silent shame for fifty years—but when her secret son finds her and her safe world is cracked open, those walls crumble.
Are you still a mother even if you have not raised your child? Can the mother/child bond survive years of separation? How deep is the damage caused by buried family secrets and shame? Engel asks herself these and many other questions as she becomes acquainted with the son she never knew, and seeks the acceptance and forgiveness she has long denied herself. Full of both aching sadness and soaring joy, You’ll Forget This Ever Happened is a shocking exposé of a shameful part of our country’s recent past—and a poignant tale of a mother’s enduring love.
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