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Author: Michael Reagan
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0805431446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Reagan presents the story of his troubled adolescence, his search for his birth mother, his religious conversion, and his relationship with Ronald Reagan, his adoptive father.
Author: Julie Ryan McGue
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1647420512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers—which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues. To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for the adoption paperwork and investigate search options, and the sisters will split the costs involved in locating their birth relatives. But their adoptive parents aren’t happy that their daughters want to locate their birth parents—and that is only the first of many obstacles Julie will come up against as she digs into her background. Julie’s search for her birth relatives spans eight years and involves a search agency, a PI, a confidential intermediary, a judge, an adoption agency, a social worker, and a genealogist. By journey’s end, what began as a simple desire for a family medical history has evolved into a complicated quest—one that unearths secrets, lies, and family members that are literally right next door.
Author: Betty Jean Lifton
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998-04-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312187668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic memior of Betty Jean Lifton's search for her secret past that helped open the way for so many others. Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adtoped that have helped open the field, tells her own story of growing up adtoped in the closed adoption system. Calling Twice Born both an autobiography and a psychological journey into the past, Lifton takes the reader with her as she describes the loneliness and islolation of an adopted child cut off from the knowledge of her heritage. She explores the ambivalence and guilt that she feels toward her adoptive parents when she awakens as an adult to her need to ask: Who am I? With the mounting suspense of a detective novel, Twice Born explores not only the difficulty of searching for one's past when one's records are sealed, but also the complexity of trying to reunite with the birth mother from whom one has been separated by social taboos--and by time. More than a vivid and poinant memior, Lifton has given hs a story of mothering and mother-loss attachment and bonding, secrets and lies, and the human need for origins. Important reading for anyone touched by these issues and by the experience of adoption--which is everyone.
Author: Sherrie Eldridge
Publisher: Delta
Published: 2009-10-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0307570819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Birthdays may be difficult for me." "I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family." "When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me." "I am afraid you will abandon me." The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents. Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child--and within the adoptive home.
Author: Trevor J. Burke
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2006-10-24
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0830826238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Trevor Burke argues that the scripture phrase "adopted as sons," while a key theological metaphor, has been misunderstood, misrepresented or neglected. He redresses the balance in this comprehensive study of the phrase. "This volume not only probes a neglected theme; it also edifies," says D. A. Carson.
Author: Russell Moore
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433549212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this practical book, Moore highlights the importance of adoption for all Christians, encouraging readers to lead the way in adoption and orphan advocacy out of our identity as adopted children of God.
Author: Patricia L. Woodard
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2024-05-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 169871646X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwice Colombia is the story of a young woman from a small southern town who follows a dream and finds herself living and working on a plateau high in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, SA. Part memoir, part travelogue, it’s a tale of adventure, friendship, and adoption set against the capital city of Bogotá and the lively city of Cali during the seventies and eighties. A dream to see the world and a curiosity about foreign cultures, and plain old good fortune, along with seized opportunities, all played a part in helping her discover a country that hasn’t always had the best press releases. A tribute, above all, to the culture of an often-misunderstood country, Twice Colombia tells a personal story of discovering and acknowledging the remarkable value of each other’s life experiences.
Author: Tina Traster
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1613746814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2015 IPPY Award Silver Medalist in the Parenting Category In moving and refreshingly candid prose, Rescuing Julia Twice tells Traster's foreign-ado!--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--ption story, from dealing with the bleak landscape and inscrutable adoption handlers in Siberia, to her feelings of inexperience and ambivalence at being a new mother in her early forties, to her growing realization over months then years that something was "not quite right" with her daughter, Julia, who remained cold and emotionally detached. Why wouldn't she look her parents in the eye or accept their embraces? Why didn't she cry when she got hurt? Why didn't she make friends at school? Traster describes how uncertainty turned to despair as she blamed herself and her mothering skills for her daughter's troublesome behavioral issues, until she came to understand that Julia suffered from reactive attachment disorder, a serious condition associated with infants and young children who have been neglected, abused, or orphaned in infancy. !--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /-- Hoping to help lift the veil of secrecy and shame that too often surrounds parents struggling with attachment issues, Traster describes how with work, commitment, and acceptance, she and her husband have been able to close the gulf between them and their daughter to form a loving bond, and concludes by providing practical advice, strategies, and resources for parents and caregivers.
Author: Jeanette Meade
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2015-02-28
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1503535312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn incredible journey of love, faith, tragedy, profound determination, survival, and deliverance, "Twice Delivered" is an astonishingly true story of a sibling's enduring life-long search for her half brother.
Author: Lyndy Stokes
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2019-09-23
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1973674610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs an adoptee, Lyndy Stokes looked for God’s hand in her adoption. While reading the Bible, she realized there were many stories of adoption throughout both the Old and New Testements. Through the stories of Moses, Esther, Ruth, and Jesus, Lyndy relates their Biblical lives to adoptees lives today. God was at work then, and He continues to be at work today!
