Older Child Adoption

Older Child Adoption

Author: Grace Robinson

Publisher: Crossroad

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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This book is a very helpful tool for those who are planning to adopt an older child. The interviews and stories present a realistic picture of the challenges and opportunities that adoptive parents of older children must face,


The Primal Wound

The Primal Wound

Author: Nancy Newton Verrier

Publisher: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (Ba

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781905664764

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Originally published in 1993, this classic piece of literature on adoption has revolutionised the way people think about adopted children. Nancy Verrier examines the life-long consequences of the 'primal wound' - the wound that is caused when a child is separated from its mother - for adopted people. Her argument is supported by thorough research in pre- and perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding and the effects of loss.


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.


Parenting Your Adopted Older Child

Parenting Your Adopted Older Child

Author: Brenda McCreight

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781572242845

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This comprehensive guide provides specific parenting strategies for the growing number of people who adopt children over two years old. Parents learn to identify their child's needs, meet such challenges as aggressive behavior and attention deficit disorder, and create a sense of belonging.


Searching for Mom

Searching for Mom

Author: Sara Easterly

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780578601953

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Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother and struggled with perfectionism, suicidal ideations, and fantasy mothers. When she became a mom, her search to find and become "the perfect mother" intensified ... until her mother's death launched a spiritual epiphany.


Parenting in the Eye of the Storm

Parenting in the Eye of the Storm

Author: Katie Naftzger

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781785927010

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Parenting a teenager is not easy and parenting an adopted teen has its own unique set of challenges. Full of practical and reassuring advice, this book will help you to steer and support your teen as they set out on the voyage of emerging adulthood, including issues surrounding relationships and identity.


The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

Author: Lori Holden

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442217393

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This book covers common open adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.


Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Author: Sherrie Eldridge

Publisher: Delta

Published: 2009-10-07

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0307570819

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"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.


All You Can Ever Know

All You Can Ever Know

Author: Nicole Chung

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1936787989

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR) What does it means to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.