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Blade: King of Graffiti
BLADE has already told his life story through graffiti. Now, over forty years into his career and armed with an incredible memory, BLADE sits down with Chris Pape to reflect on growing up in the Bronx in the turbulent 1970s, and recounts the highs and lows of his storied career, holding nothing back. BLADE is considered The King of Graffiti because, by 1980, after painting 5,000 wildly creative trains, he stopped counting. This book parallels the New York graffiti movement almost from its inception, moving through its glory years in the mid-1970s, when BLADE earned his title, and ending in the global art scene, where he remains a major presence. BLADE helped New York graffiti become internationally famous by making it look fun, and, for reasons of quantity, quality, and, perhaps above all, for sheer spirit, BLADE may very well be the most popular graffiti artist with his peers. Chris Pape was born in 1960. He grew up on the upper west side of Manhattan where he watched the birth of the graffiti movement. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Elsa, and their kids, Cora and Dash.Read more
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020
Sunday Times best books for Autumn 2020
Guardian critics’ pick for Autumn 2020
Wall Street Journal notable book of 2020The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the ‘long peace’, as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every century of recorded history. Is war, therefore, an essential part of being human?
In War, Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the deep links between society and war and the questions they raise. We learn when war began – whether among early homo sapiens or later, as we began to organise ourselves into tribes and settle in communities. We see the ways in which war reflects changing societies and how war has brought change – for better and worse.
Economies, science, technology, medicine, culture: all are instrumental in war and have been shaped by it – without conflict it we might not have had penicillin, female emancipation, radar or rockets. Throughout history, writers, artists, film-makers, playwrights, and composers have been inspired by war – whether to condemn, exalt or simply puzzle about it. If we are never to be rid of war, how should we think about it and what does that mean for peace?
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis: 1 (No-Nonsense Guides To Digestive Diseases)
Discover Everything You Need To Know About Diverticulitis
Have you recently been diagnosed with Diverticulosis or Diverticulitis? Are you looking to learn about the most common colon disorder affecting over 50% of people aged 50 and older? Or are you looking for recent preventative measures backed up by scientific research? If you’re interested in learning more about this poorly understood problem, you’ve come to the right place. The purpose of this book is to crunch hundreds of pages worth of, sometimes conflicting, information into a jargon-free, easy-to-digest (no pun intended) 105-page manual. Every medical statement is linked to a scientific study, journal or article and are all fully referenced in the last chapter, allowing you to read the studies in full. Be warned, this book does not contain any miracle cures, just concrete information from the most up-to-date sources. The truth is, thousands of people worldwide are suffering from Diverticulitis and are unable to overcome it. Most sufferers take a doctor’s word to be law and prescribe a simple concoction of painkillers and fibre, but is this enough? This book teaches you everything you need to know about Diverticulitis so you can arm yourself with the knowledge to defeat it. It also goes into a step-by-step strategy that will ease your suffering and allow you to take control of your life once again.
Now With A Diet For Diverticulosis
This second edition contains a list of molecules that affect diverticular disease, both positively and negatively. The ingredients with the highest concentration of these molecules are explained in simple terms, so you know exactly what to add to your shopping cart and what to avoid. 50 recipes are included, allowing a bespoke diet for diverticulitis, each containing large quantities of these beneficial molecules. If there’s an ingredient not to your fancy, we’ve got you covered, feel free to look into the “Ingredients Analysis” section and swap it out for an equivalent item.
Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn:
- How The Gut Works To Maximise Your Health
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Take action right away to overcome your Diverticulitis by downloading this book, “The No-Nonsense Guide To Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis”. Become more knowledgeable today!
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Eleazar [Vampires of Ridgeway 1] (The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection)
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Werewolves, Vampires, Suspense, MM, HEA] When Andrew is offered an interview with the mysterious Eleazar Bancroft for a job as his personal assistant, he’s overjoyed. But when he gets the position, he soon realizes that there is more going on than meets the eye. He is ordered to reside at the estate but isn’t allowed to roam the premises. Despite discovering that he’s in a house filled with vampires, Andrew decides to stay because of his overwhelming attraction to Eleazar, even though the rational thing to do would be to flee from danger and never look back. After the fiasco with Felix, Eleazar isn’t sure he wants another human servant—until he meets Andrew. An inexplicable magnetism draws them together, and Eleazar can’t stop himself from giving in to his desires. But someone wants Andrew dead, and it’s up to Eleazar to eliminate all threats toward his pregnant mate, even if he has to wipe out his entire coven to keep Andrew safe. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.Read more
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Don’t Look Away: the pulse-pounding new thriller from the queen of the page turner (A Stephanie King Thriller)
From the moment I open my eyes, I know. Her bed is made, the wardrobe empty.
There was something she wanted to tell me, but I didn’t listen.
Now she’s gone.‘An absolute stunner of a book by a very clever author’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW
‘Thrilling and creepy plot that keeps you turning the pages until the shocking ending’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW
‘Kept me guessing right to the end’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW
‘I was entranced. Perfectly formed characters, [a] grippingly tense storyline. OUTSTANDING’ Angela Marsons
‘A real masterclass in simmering tension that builds until the shocking end.’ KL Slater
‘One of my top reads of 2023. The tension kept me gripped until the final page.’ DS Butler
Eleven years ago my sister Lola vanished from my aunt’s cottage in Cornwall. Now I’m back, and I’m no closer to understanding why she ran away. What secrets was she keeping?
Memories come to me in snippets, but something is still missing. Then a body is discovered in a cave below the cliffs. No one knows how long it’s been there. Is it Lola?
The next night I wake, knowing someone is there, standing by my bed. I can hear them breathing. What do they want? Am I getting too close to the truth?
Did Lola ever leave?
Praise for Rachel Abbott:
‘What a storyteller Rachel Abbott is… I was hooked from the start’ Cara Hunter
‘Compulsive reading’ Harriet Tyce
‘A truly compelling, twisty, enthralling read… AMAZING!’ Angela Marsons
‘I raced through this compelling, twisty novel.’ Laura Marshall
‘A total delight’ Daily Mail
‘Takes your breath away’ Sun
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First History Encyclopedia: A First Reference Book for Children (DK First Reference)
Important historical topics from the Stone Age and Ancient Egypt to the US Civil War and World War II are clearly explained in this fun and informative illustrated history book for children studying KS1 and KS2 subjects.
First History Encyclopedia covers everything a young child needs to know. It follows the curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2 and provides a strong foundation for history learning through the rest of the school years. It is the perfect homework help book to support children as they begin to learn about history.
This history book sits in DK’s popular First Reference series. It introduces exciting periods and civilizations, such as the Romans, Vikings, and Aztecs, that will get kids hooked on learning about the past.
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Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed: The Complete Guide to Managing Kidney Disease and Avoiding Dialysis
Your new kidney-friendly diet made easy with meal plans and flavorful recipesWhen you’ve just been diagnosed with stage 1-4 chronic kidney disease, learning to follow diet restrictions can be a challenge. But your meals don’t have to be complicated or boring to support your health and slow the disease’s progression. Keep it simple and flavorful with the Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed. This practical cookbook equips you with essential info, 4 weekly meal plans, and 100 easy, kidney-healthy recipes to kick-start your renal diet.
Find out how kidney disease works, and learn how diet plays a key role in keeping you healthy and avoiding dialysis. Explore at-a-glance food charts to help you regulate nutrients like sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and protein. All of the book’s recipes include nutrition facts, and many can be made in 30 minutes or less–accommodating your busy schedule and helping keep your kidney-friendly diet stress-free.
The Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed includes:
- 100+ Satisfying recipes–Enjoy Buckwheat Pancakes, Creamy Broccoli Soup, Lemon Garlic Halibut, Meatloaf with Mushroom Gravy, Strawberry Pie, and much more.
- 4 Weekly meal plans–Get started with four weeks of daily menus, complete with shopping lists, snack suggestions, and nutrition facts for every recipe.
- 5 Steps to a renal diet–Take your new diet one step at a time in five practical stages, including specific guidance for reading food labels and controlling portions.
Your proactive plan for your kidneys’ health starts now with the Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed.
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The 44 Scotland Street Cookbook: Recipes from the Bestselling Series by Alexander McCall Smith
With a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith
‘That which is uncooked is destined to be cooked, if has been prepared with cooking in mind’ – The Enigma of Garlic
Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street novels are loved and enjoyed by readers throughout the world. In each book there are countless scenes involving conversations around the table, in the kitchen, or in a cafe – friendship and food go well together.
With this delightful cookbook readers can immerse themselves in the world of Edinburgh’s New Town and recreate some of their favourite characters’ signature dishes: enjoy Bertie’s much-loved Panforte di Sienna, Angus Lordie’s famous cheese scones or host your own Scotland Street supper.
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THE WHISTLER’S OMEN: A gripping mystery about a very strange murder (The Unsolvable Crimes Book 2)
An impossible victim, a more than impossible killer!FBI Special Agent Ilona Farris has barely recovered from her first escapade with the newly formed Unsolvable Crimes Unit when a bizarre case lands on her desk.
A man has been chained to a sack of stones and pushed into the water at Seattle Marina. However, the victim supposedly died in a plane crash over twenty years ago.
Witnesses report seeing a man in a straw hat and long coat at the scene. There one moment, then disappearing without a trace.
Rumours begin that the figure is the legendary South American spirit of El Silbón, the Whistler, whose victims have an eerie tune played to them before meeting their demise.
Fearing this will not be the ghostly apparition’s last crime, Agent Farris resolves to discover the truth about Ven Air Flight 387 and catch a killer with nothing other than revenge on their mind.
But the Whistler is not the only ghost stalking in the shadows, and Farris will need all her wits to come out on top.
THE WHISTLER’S OMEN is the second standalone mystery in this mind-blowing, edge-of-your-seat series by Iain Henn. Look out for the first, THE PIPER’S CHILDREN.
Iain Henn is also author of the beguiling mystery DEAD SET ON MURDER, and the romantic thriller THE GREATEST BETRAYAL. All available in paperback and on Kindle Unlimited.
Praise for THE PIPER’S CHILDREN:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Read it in a day as couldn’t put the book down!” Kindle customer
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Very intriguing, chilling and atmospheric…” Amazon UK reviewer
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A very thought provoking thriller” Amazon UK reviewer
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Such a unique & clever story line” Netgalley reviewer
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The Story of My Open Adoption: A Storybook for Children Adopted at Birth
Two families, open to love―exploring and explaining adoption at birth for kids ages 3 to 5
Leap into a warm-hearted tale about a little squirrel who was adopted at birth! Join Sammy as Mom and Dad Rabbit bring him to meet his first family. With its whimsical illustrations and appealing rhymes, this storybook is perfect to read aloud to children age 3-5.
Open adoption can be complex as well as joyful. Sammy’s story opens the door for kids to talk honestly about their experiences and feelings. Parents can also find a list of books and online resources offering research and helpful perspectives around adoption.
In this loving adoption tale, you’ll find:
- Dear parents—A welcome letter explains key concepts, introducing the story’s scenario of adoption at birth and the meaning behind the term “first family.”
- A family picture—Full-page, full-color pictures bring the Rabbit and Squirrel families to life—and there’s space for your child to add a drawing of their family, too!
- Open conversation—Use Sammy’s tale as a jumping-off point to connect with your child and discuss how their adoption made you a family.
Discover the story of two caring families with open hearts in The Story of My Adoption.
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Chosen: Living with adoption
Chosen brings together writing and poetry by over 50 adopted adults born between 1934 and 1984. Some are established writers, others are new and emerging whilst some have never been published before. They capture a broad range of perspectives: adoption within the extended family; late-discovery adopted adults; transracial and transnational adoption; those who have searched for birth family, and those who did not search but were found by a relative. The themes of identity and belonging, roots and searching and acceptance and healing permeate these accounts.Read more
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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
The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.“It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” –The Washington Post
“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” –The New York Times Book Review
“A wrenching, riveting book.” –Chicago Tribune
In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade – and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
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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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Gus Becomes a Big Brother: An Adoption Story
‘Gus Becomes a Big Brother’ is a heartwarming adoption story, with special emphasis on how an older sibling, Gus, deals with the anticipation, preparation, and experience of becoming a big brother. As the Barker family embarks on their adoption journey, Gus navigates his way through many difficult emotions; such as anxiety, frustration and jealousy. But with the support and guidance of his parents; Gus ultimately develops patience, empathy, compassion, and a ton of brotherly love. Authored by an adoptive mother and psychologist, this book contains many valuable insights for parents involved in domestic or international adoption. It is also applicable to diverse families, such as the Barkers— who successfully worked together to overcome challenges, while celebrating each other’s differences. Overall, the story reveals a deeply connected adoptive family that is bound by love, acceptance and understanding.
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The Cloud Adoption Playbook: Proven Strategies for Transforming Your Organization with the Cloud
The essential roadmaps for enterprise cloud adoption
As cloud technologies continue to challenge the fundamental understanding of how businesses work, smart companies are moving quickly to adapt to a changing set of rules. Adopting the cloud requires a clear roadmap backed by use cases, grounded in practical real-world experience, to show the routes to successful adoption. The Cloud Adoption Playbook helps business and technology leaders in enterprise organizations sort through the options and make the best choices for accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation.
Written by a team of IBM technical executives with a wealth of real-world client experience, this book cuts through the hype, answers your questions, and helps you tailor your cloud adoption and digital transformation journey to the needs of your organization. This book will help you:
- Discover how the cloud can fulfill major business needs
- Adopt a standardized Cloud Adoption Framework and understand the key dimensions of cloud adoption and digital transformation
- Learn how cloud adoption impacts culture, architecture, security, and more
- Understand the roles of governance, methodology, and how the cloud impacts key players in your organization.
Providing a collection of winning plays, championship advice, and real-world examples of successful adoption, this playbook is your ultimate resource for making the cloud work. There has never been a better time to adopt the cloud. Cloud solutions are more numerous and accessible than ever before, and evolving technology is making the cloud more reliable, more secure, and more necessary than ever before. Don’t let your organization be left behind! The Cloud Adoption Playbook gives you the essential guidance you need to make the smart choices that reduce your organizational risk and accelerate your cloud adoption and digital transformation.
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The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families.
Drawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, The Emotional Experience of Adoption explores issues such as:
- the emotional experience of children placed for adoption, and how this both shapes and is shaped by unconscious processes in the child’s inner world
- how psychoanalytic child psychotherapy can help as a distinctive source of understanding and as a treatment for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted
- how such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers.
The Emotional Experience of Adoption explains and accounts for the emotional and psychological complexities involved for child, parents and professionals in adoption. It will be of interest and relevance to anyone involved at a personal level in the adoption process or professionals working in the fields of adoption, social work, child mental health, foster care and family support.
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Inside Transracial Adoption: Strength-based, Culture-sensitizing Parenting Strategies for Inter-country or Domestic Adoptive Families That Don’t “Match”, Second Edition
Is transracial adoption a positive choice for kids?
How can children gain their new families without losing their birth heritage?
How can parents best support their children after placement?Inside Transracial Adoption is an authoritative guide to navigating the challenges and issues that parents face in the USA when they adopt a child of a different race and/or from a different culture. Filled with real-life examples and strategies for success, this book explores in depth the realities of raising a child transracially, whether in a multicultural or a predominantly white community. Readers will learn how to help children adopted transracially or transnationally build a strong sense of identity, so that they will feel at home both in their new family and in their racial group or culture of origin. This second edition incorporates the latest research on positive racial identity and multicultural families, and reflects recent developments and trends in adoption.
Drawing on research, decades of experience as adoption professionals, and their own personal experience of adopting transracially, Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg offer insights for all transracial adoptive parents – from prospective first-time adopters to experienced veterans – and those who support them.
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Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children (B a for Adoption Fostering)
In the UK, social workers are required by law to consider a child’s ethnicity, along with other significant factors, when planning for and placing children in permanent placements. In practice, decisions are often made difficult by the complexity of children s heritages.Little research attention has been paid to how social workers understand and respond to ethnic differences, and local authorities have only been required to record the ethnicity of children in their care since 2001. This has revealed that minority ethnic children are less likely to be placed for adoption, and questions have been raised about whether this is because they receive a different social work service to white children, or that the emphasis on same-race matched placements restricts choice, or that there is a lack of suitable adopters.
This pioneering study explores the care pathways of minority ethnic children in three authorities in England, and considers possible differences in decision making and outcomes for them, in comparison with white children, especially in relation to permanence. It raises key questions about our understanding of ethnicity and culture and how these are reflected in social work practice, especially with regard to making permanent placements for minority ethnic children.
This book will be of considerable interest to anyone involved in adoption, from practitioners and managers to policy makers.
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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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What Does It Mean To Be Adopted?
Meet an inquisitive boy who is asking questions about ‘his’ special family, he is adopted! A quirky poem with delightful illustrations teaches children that Allah has blessed every child with a special story. We love these differences and they make our lives fun and interesting.
We hope to teach our children to embrace everything that Allah has written for us in His wisdom.
This unique book will help to authentically educate your child about adoption in Islam.
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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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My Two Mums: Let’s Celebrate Adoption!: 2
My Two Mums is a sweet story-poem book with beautiful illustrations, celebrating the joy of living in a Forever Family made from love. It focuses on a female same-sex adoption and is suitable for all adopted children and any child interested in diverse family lives. The author has worked therapeutically with adopted children for 20 years including many in same sex families. This book is to celebrate the many amazing adopters and their children who have demonstrated the power of love in forming their families. The book briefly touches on the court process, training to adopt and on birth families but the main poem focuses on all the love, guidance and support the child receives within her family. Suitable for children aged 3-12. Part of the Let’s Celebrate Adoption! series that also features Daddy Wishing, 10 Big Wishes, and, out soon, Rainbow Remembering.Read more
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Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, Second Edition
Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting.
The authors outline how the experience of adopting and fostering has changed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people over the years, major changes in policy, and what the research can tell us about LGBT parenting. They interview families involved at different stages of the fostering and adoption process, from those undergoing assessments through to the experienced foster carers and adopters who were interviewed for the first edition of this book 20 years previously. While the number of LGBT people adopting or fostering has increased since then, some of the very real challenges still endure – including social stigma, homophobia and discriminatory policies – and families share some of the strategies they have used to help to address them.
This is an essential source of information and advice for same-sex couples and LGBT single parents, as well as social workers, social work educators, sociologists of personal life, fostering and adoption panel members.
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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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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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Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond – whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond – straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child’s feet or cheeks – and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up – the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions. Offering fascinating insights into how children who struggle to attach can be helped, this book is full of easy-to-use ideas which will help you to enjoy the many pleasures of bonding and attaching with your child.Read more
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The Sad Dragon: A Dragon Book About Grief and Loss. A Cute Children Story To Help Kids Understand The Loss Of A Loved One, and How To Get Through Difficult Time.: 28 (My Dragon…
Having a pet dragon is very fun!
He can sit, roll over, and play… He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or so many other fun things that will make you laugh…
But sometimes, not every story is a happy one…
What if your dragon is suffering from a loss of a loved one?
What if he’s sad, angry, and heartbroken because his loved one passed away, and he cries and cries and cries?
What should you do?
You teach him about Grief and Loss. You explain death to him, and help him get through this difficult time!
But how???
Get his book now and learn how!
Cute dragon book with beautiful illustrations, this is a must have for children, parents and teachers to open up conversations about loss, and to help kids who suffered from the loss of a loved one.
GET THIS BOOK NOW!
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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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So You’ve Adopted a Sibling: A big sister’s survival guide for big brothers and sisters through adoption of a younger child or baby | Adoption shower … Kinship Care and…
From the author of award-winning foster care and adoption books Delly Duck, Room in the Nest and other adoption, fostering and kinship care children’s stories, comes an adorably-illustrated story to help elder siblings to adjust to a new sibling joining their family by adoption.So You’ve Adopted a Sibling features charming illustrations from Marlow’s daughter, a real 5 year old big sister. The engaging story is told in the voice of a young child who is enjoying being a big sister through adoption, and shares her top tips for other children who have a younger brother or sister who has joined their family through adoption. The story touches upon some of the emotions and changes to routine that children may experience in the early months as a big brother or sister.
Marlow is a biological and adoptive mother, and understands the challenges faced by parents who adopt after having a biological child. Most children have an established routine by the time they move to their adoptive family, and one of the primary goals of the adoptive family is to try to minimise the changes to this routine during transitions, to help the adopted child to settle in. Marlow found that this meant that there were quite a lot of changes to her biological daughter’s routines, so they worked together to write this story to help other parents to support their children through this.
This story is suitable for birth/biological children, as well as elder siblings who were adopted/placed in an adoptive family themselves prior to their younger sibling joining the family.
Praise for Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother
“One of the best Adoption books of all time” – BookAuthority
“…a beautifully illustrated children’s story book, explaining big issues like adoption and fostering, in an age appropriate way.” – We Made A Wish adoption magazine
“…Delly Duck is a great choice for adopted and fostered children to explain adoption or support therapeutic life story work. The book can be used to help answer difficult and emotive questions…” – Maggie and Rose Book Adventurers
“A fantastic book for Parents, Foster Parents, Adoptive Parents, Legal Guardians, Kinship Carers, Social Workers, Play Therapists or Teachers… I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is adopting, fostering, or is a child’s Legal Guardian… I love the way the book shows the love, and loss of the birth parent, and highlights the fact that sometimes a birth parent is simply not equipped with the necessary skills to keep their child safe consistently.
This beautiful, sensitively written story explains why a child may need to be removed from their birth parent, and explores in a gentle way the emotions felt by parent and child, and the roles other people play in protecting the child, and offering the child a loving, safe environment…” – Icing on the BakePlease click on the author’s name to see more titles by Holly Marlow.
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Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma. This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains how to recognise these effects and attachment issues in children. It also provides ways to help children settle into new families and home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish. The book also includes practical resources such as checklists, questionnaires, assessments and tools for professionals including social workers, child welfare workers and mental health workers. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.Read more
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Our Granted Dream
A Personal adoption story
A long awaited dream
Granted by Allah’s mercy
Where two became three!Read more
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The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook: Proven business analysis techniques and processes for a superior user experience and adoption
Become a proficient Salesforce business analyst with the help of expert recommendations, techniques, best practices, and practical advice
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.
Key Features
- Learn the intricacies and nuances of every stage of a project’s implementation
- Discover real-world examples, tips, and tricks that you can apply to any Salesforce project
- Overcome the challenges inherent in user interaction and improve your customer experience
Book Description
Salesforce business analysis skills are in high demand, and there are scant resources to satisfy this demand. This practical guide for business analysts contains all the tools, techniques, and processes needed to create business value and improve user adoption.
The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook begins with the most crucial element of any business analysis activity: identifying business requirements. You’ll learn how to use tacit business analysis and Salesforce system analysis skills to rank and stack all requirements as well as get buy-in from stakeholders. Once you understand the requirements, you’ll work on transforming them into working software via prototyping, mockups, and wireframing. But what good is a product if the customer cannot use it? To help you achieve that, this book will discuss various testing strategies and show you how to tailor testing scenarios that align with business requirements documents. Toward the end, you’ll find out how to create easy-to-use training material for your customers and focus on post-production support – one of the most critical phases. Your customers will stay with you if you support them when they need it!
By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be able to successfully navigate every phase of a project and confidently apply your new knowledge in your own Salesforce implementations.
What you will learn
- Create a roadmap to deliver a set of high-level requirements
- Prioritize requirements according to their business value
- Identify opportunities for improvement in process flows
- Communicate your solution design via conference room pilots
- Construct a requirements traceability matrix
- Conduct user acceptance tests and system integration tests
- Develop training artifacts so your customers can easily use your system
- Implement a post-production support model to retain your customers
Who this book is for
This book is for intermediate- to senior-level business analysts with a basic understanding of Salesforce CRM software or any CRM technology who want to learn proven business analysis techniques to set their business up for success.
Table of Contents
- Identifying Requirements
- Elicitation and Document Requirements
- Prioritizing Requirements
- Process Flows – “As-is” versus “To-be”
- Business Requirements Document
- Solution Design and Functional Document
- Demonstrate Functionality Using Prototypes
- Exploring Conference Room Pilots
- Technical and Quality Testing
- Requirements Traceability Matrix
- User Acceptance Testing
- Communication and Knowledge Management
- End User Training
- Post Go-Live Support / User Forums
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The Kite’s Tale: A Story of Adoption
The Kite’s Tale follows the story of Archie, who longs for a brother or sister, and Posy, who needs a forever home. It is a simple tale of adoption with a thread of hope running throughout.Read more
£7.20£9.50The Kite’s Tale: A Story of Adoption
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How to Adopt a Child: Your step-by-step guide to adopting and parenting
From understanding what adoption is, through to step by step guidance on the entire process and the challenges that come up along the way, this is the only book you will need to read on adoption.
Written by an author who was adopted herself, who has looked after over twenty children and who works with a fostering and adoption agency that deals specifically with breakdowns, this book will teach you how to confidently navigate the system and build a strong and lasting relationship with your child.
Whilst very much being the unvarnished truth, this is an empowering guide that will ensure you feel in control and know where to turn to for help no matter what:
With a positive attitude and the right tools, adopting a child can be very rewarding – don’t try to overthink it, don’t try to love, just do right by them and as you learn about each other the love, kindness and acceptance will grow.
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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction
Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.
The Seven Core Issues are Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Mastery/Control. The book expands the model to be inclusive of adoption and all forms of permanency: adoption, foster care, kinship care, donor insemination and surrogacy. Attachment and trauma are integrated with the Seven Core Issues model to address and normalize the additional tasks individuals and families will encounter.
The book views the Seven Core Issues from a range of perspectives including: multi-racial, LGBTQ, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, African-American, International, openness, search and reunion, and others. This essential guide introduces each Core Issue, its impact on individuals, offering techniques for growth and healing.
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Adopting A Little Brother or Sister: A big sister’s guide to adoption for a child becoming a big sibling through adoption of a younger child or baby … Kinship Care and Special…
From the author of award-winning foster care and adoption books, Delly Duck and Room in the Nest,and her talented daughter, Zoe.Adopting A Little Brother or Sister features charming illustrations from a 5 year old big sister. The engaging story is told in the voice of a young child who is excited to be a big sister through adoption and shares her top tips for other future brothers and sisters going through the process of adoption from foster care. The story touches upon social worker visits and the introductions process with the foster family, as well as highlighting some of the frustrations a child may have with the process, (such as how slow it feels) and the things a young child may find fun about adopting (such as the child being already old enough to play, unlike a newborn).
This story is suitable for birth/biological children, as well as elder siblings who were adopted themselves.
Praise for Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother
“One of the best new Adoption books” – BookAuthority
“…a beautifully illustrated children’s story book, explaining big issues like adoption and fostering, in an age appropriate way.” – We Made A Wish adoption magazine
“…Delly Duck is a great choice for adopted and fostered children to explain adoption or support therapeutic life story work. The book can be used to help answer difficult and emotive questions…” – Maggie and Rose Book Adventurers
“A fantastic book for Parents, Foster Parents, Adoptive Parents, Legal Guardians, Kinship Carers, Social Workers, Play Therapists or Teachers… I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is adopting, fostering, or is a child’s Legal Guardian… I love the way the book shows the love, and loss of the birth parent, and highlights the fact that sometimes a birth parent is simply not equipped with the necessary skills to keep their child safe consistently.
This beautiful, sensitively written story explains why a child may need to be removed from their birth parent, and explores in a gentle way the emotions felt by parent and child, and the roles other people play in protecting the child, and offering the child a loving, safe environment…” – Icing on the BakePlease click on the author’s name to see more titles about adoption, foster care and kinship care by Holly Marlow.
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I’ve Loved You Since Forever Board Book: A Valentine’s Day Book for Kids
New York Times #1 Bestseller!
I’ve Loved You Since Forever is a celebratory and poetic testament to the timeless love felt between parent and child. This beautiful picture book is inspired by Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb’s heartwarming adoption of her baby girl, Haley Joy.
With Kotb’s lyrical text and stunning pictures by Suzie Mason, young ones and parents will want to snuggle up and read the pages of this book together, over and over again. This board book is perfect for sharing with the littlest ones.
In the universe,
there was you and
there was me,
waiting for the day our
stars would meet. . .
Makes a lovely gift for baby showers, Mother’s Day, and more. Plus don’t miss Hoda Kotb and Suzie Mason’s beautiful follow-up picture book, You Are My Happy.
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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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Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues
A much-needed anthology addressing a variety of potential psychological and physiological concerns, Adoption Therapy, Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues is a must-read for adoptees, adoptive parents, first families, and vitally, mental health professionals.
With writing by adoptees, adoptive parents, and clinicians, Adoption Therapy is a first-of-its-kind and wholly unique reference book, providing insight, advice, and personal stories which highlight the specific nature of the adoptee experience.
Topics Include:
•The psychological dangers in leaving trauma and grief buried and unaddressed
•The importance of community in healing the wounds of separation
•Understanding the physical and psychological effects of transracial adoption
•Attachment—including the inability to attach, inappropriate attachment, and the myth of Reactive Attachment Disorder
•Conception by rape: an adoptee speaks out
•Co-dependency, intimacy, and creating closeness
•The life-long effects of pre- and perinatal trauma
•Processing complex trauma, complex grief, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
•Specific concerns for Late Discovery Adoptees
•The relationship among trauma, anger and rage, and substance abuse
•For adoptive parents and adoptees: red flags when working with a therapistRead more
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Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School: A Whole-School Resource for Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma or Loss – With Complementary Downloadable Material
Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have special educational needs. This useful resource provides a complete plan for creating adoption-friendly environments in primary, secondary and specialist schools.
The book is grounded on new research which gathered together testimonies from over 400 school staff members, adoptive parents and adoption specialists. With realistic consideration of pressures and limitations currently faced by schools, it gives advice on eight key areas for school development, including communicating with parents, training staff, using resources wisely and recognising children’s individual needs. Completing the toolkit is a broad selection of photocopiable and downloadable plans for establishing adoption-friendly frameworks, and for demonstrating good practice to staff, pupils, families and school inspectors.
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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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Alien Adoption Agency: Collection 1 (Alien Adoption Agency – Collections)
If you like strong women, dragon-shifting warriors, adorable baby aliens, wild adventures, steamy sensual scenes, and happily-ever-afters, then you’ll love exploring exotic frontier worlds with the Alien Adoption Agency!This exclusive collection includes all three dragon-shifting warrior romances that take place on the frontier moon of Clothos:
Noxx:
The Alien Adoption Agency is going to make all of Luna’s dreams come true.
At least, that’s what Luna believes when she boards a rickety space craft headed for a frontier moon to meet the child she will raise in exchange for a hundred acres of land and a modest stipend. But she doesn’t count on the dangerous animals, the short but lonely nights, or the big blue warrior who informs her he is on permanent security duty for the baby.Kade:
She’s the target of an intergalactic bounty hunt. If he wants to protect her, first he’ll have to capture her heart.
Aurora Day is running from a crime she didn’t commit – or at least, she didn’t mean to commit. But the intergalactic soldiers on the hunt for the woman known as the Fox don’t care about the details. Hiding out on the remote frontier moon of Clotho is her only hope for survival. But to gain access, she has to adopt an alien baby. Aurora is shocked when she learns that a dragon warrior of the Invicta is part of the package.Tyro:
Phoebe has nothing but her secrets. Her grumpy alien protector is determined to lay them bare.
Phoebe arrives on the moon of Clotho with a trunk full of secrets and an imagination filled with preconceived notions about life on the frontier. She’s more than ready to scrap and fight for her own piece of farmland, and a future for the little one she is adopting. When her new land turns out to be underwater, and the baby shows up in the strapping arms of an Invicta dragon-guard, Phoebe doubles down on her promise to herself to live free, or die trying.Indulge in all five Alien Adoption Agency collections:
Collection 1: Clothos
Collection 2: Lachesis
Collection 3: Atropos
Collection 4: Han-2
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Music Therapy in Adoption and Trauma: Therapy That Makes a Difference After Placement
Music therapy is a valuable method of support and treatment for those dealing with trauma within the adoption community. Music Therapy in Adoption and Trauma offers a timely and much-needed perspective for music and creative arts therapists, as well as families themselves.
Addressing topics such as contemporary adoption processes, potential resulting trauma, attachment and adoption breakdown, the book looks at why music therapy specifically can help. Throughout, it centres the value of lived experience in increasing understanding of trauma and effective support.
Following a decade of dramatic change within the adoption practice, this book is an invaluable resource for those looking to support individuals and families impacted by adoption.
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Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children, Second Edition: A Family Friendly Approach
Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other ‘little treasures’, a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child’s early history and a chronology of their life.
Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book which promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within new families. Joy Rees’ influential model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child’s sense of belonging and security before addressing the child’s past and early trauma. The book contains simple explanations of complex concepts, practical examples, helpful suggestions and includes some simple checklists. This new edition has been expanded to include fostered children and those living in kinship care or with a special guardian.
Perfect for social workers, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.
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The pink guide to adoption for lesbians and gay men 3rd edition
How easy is it for lesbian and gay couples to adopt? Can we adopt jointly? Is the adoption process any different from heterosexual adoption? Is it true that only hard-to-place children get placed with lesbians and gay men?The Pink Guide to Adoption is definitely the right read for anyone asking themselves these questions. It is an essential step-by-step guide for lesbians and gay men who are considering adoption in the UK, whether as single parents or jointly.
Illustrated throughout with quotations from those who have already experienced, or are currently involved in, the adoption process, this fully updated third edition also has useful points to consider for those wishing to embark on the adoption journey. Informative and inspiring, these stories bring to life the reality of what adoption means. They describe the highs and lows, the welcome they have received and also the prejudices encountered, the difficulties and the rewards. Many reveal how their lives have changed immeasurably since their adopted children moved in.
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Inside Adoption: A parent’s story
Adoption has changed hugely in the past few decades. These days, most children placed with adoptive families are not babies; by the time they meet their new parents they may have been exposed to a range of traumatic experience – in utero, within their birth families and within the state care system. Exposure to drugs or alcohol in the womb and abuse in early childhood are increasingly known to have significant effects on a child’s psychological and relational development. The effects can endure throughout the whole of their life, regardless of the loving care and stability they receive in their adoptive home. This poses very real challenges for people stepping forward into the role of adoptive parent. Unlike most books on adoption, Inside Adoption is written by someone who has both worked within the adoption `industry’ and is an adoptive parent himself. Philip Teasdale describes here his own experience, along with his wife Anne, of adopting Jemma as a baby. This is the story of the difficult and traumatising years that followed, as they struggled to provide a loving home around their emotionally volatile and often violent adoptive daughter. It also describes the failure of the statutory services to provide support for the family and psychological help for Jemma to enable her to manage her personal demons and impulses. Teasdale brings to this first-person account an insightful analysis and critique of the adoption process as it has developed over the past two decades, highlighting its abject failure to acknowledge significant social trends in any meaningful way. There is, he argues, still too little funding going into the post-adoption period; adoptive parents are still left to sink or swim as best they can, while the statutory agencies tick the box for another child `placed’ and wash their hands of further responsibility.Read more
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The Family Fairies
This magical rhyming storybook follows a special couple on their journey for a forever family through adoption.
The phrase “Family Fairies” imaginatively refers to social workers and foster carers and the book helps adopted children to understand the role these people play in making dreams come true by bringing families together in this way.
It covers the how, not the why, and gently references key stages of the adoption process in a positive and child focused way.
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£8.50The Family Fairies
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