Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey

Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey

Author: Kelly Dibenedetto

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 9780692797877

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"Written from the perspective of a child, Adoption is a Lifelong Journey provides insight into emotions and thoughts an adoptee or foster child might encounter while also equipping caregivers with timely responses and resources" -- cover, page [4].


Journey Of The Adopted Self

Journey Of The Adopted Self

Author: Betty Jean Lifton

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-08-04

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0786723564

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Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child's lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness.


Mother Me

Mother Me

Author: Zara H Phillips

Publisher: Gemma

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1934848867

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The adopted daughter of loving parents, Zara Phillips felt out of place since childhood. Although cherished, she grew up deeply insecure and alone, consumed by a void she found impossible to fill. Isolation led to alienation, until her talent brought her to the center of the heady London rock ‘n’ roll scene of the 1980s. Zara became lost in a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and destructive relationships. An intense search for the truth of her birth led to an awakening and then to recovery. Zara’s activism for adoptee rights springs from a very personal passion. In the end, it was Zara’s experience of becoming a mother that revealed what being adopted really meant. For the first time, she gained deep understanding and compassion for both her birth mother and her adoptive mother and was able to start the healing process. Mother Me bravely illuminates the lifelong impact of adoption on every member of the adoption triad—adoptee, birth mother and adoptive mother—as well as the families of each. The tale of Zara’s search for her birth mother and her path to recovery is riveting, as are the stories of many people sharing her past.


Follow Your Detour: Let Go of Your Pain, Conquer Your Fear, and Find the Real You

Follow Your Detour: Let Go of Your Pain, Conquer Your Fear, and Find the Real You

Author: Lindsay McKenzie

Publisher: Lindsay McKenzie

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781733811347

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We've all been told to "follow our dreams", but what happens when those dreams aren't working out? Part personal memoir, part self-help, Follow Your Detour will inspire you to embrace the unexpected, let go of your pain and fears, and find the courage to create your own path.


Lost & Found

Lost & Found

Author: Betty Jean Lifton

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 047203328X

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Explores the obstacles and issues that adoptees, orphans, and foster children face when they have been separated from a parent or denied the right to know their origins


The Adoptee's Journey

The Adoptee's Journey

Author: Cameron Lee Small

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1514007053

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Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma. Narrating his own and other adoptees' complex stories, counselor Cameron Lee Small unpacks the history of adoption and the church's influence, helping adoptees regain their agency and identity on a journey of integration and healing.


Being Adopted

Being Adopted

Author: David M. Brodzinsky

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 1993-03-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0385414269

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Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.


Once They Hear My Name

Once They Hear My Name

Author: Ellen S. Lee

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780979375606

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A testament to the more than 100,000 Korean adoptees who have come to the United States since the 1950s, this collection of oral histories features the stories of nine Korean Americans who were adopted as children and the struggles they've shared as foreigners in their native lands. From their early confrontations with racism and xenophobia to their later-in-life trips back to Korea to find their roots (with mixed results), these narratives illustrate the wide variety of ways in which all adoptive parents and adoptees--not just those from Korea--must struggle with issues of identity, alienation, and family.


Journeys After Adoption

Journeys After Adoption

Author: Jayne E. Schooler

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2002-07-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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The authors offer insight into the concerns, issues, joys, and pain experienced by those who lives are framed by adoption.


Love's Complete

Love's Complete

Author: Teresa Travous Hull

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1449758215

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This lovely illustrated children s book written in rhyme paints the journey adoptive families take in order to bring their Russian children home. Follow a couple on their journey and experience the joys and challenges they go through until their child is ultimately united with them. Check it out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Teresa-Travous-Hull/172131412924422. Let s celebrate adoption together!