Category: Adoption

A Man and His Mother: An Adopted Son's Search

By: Green, Tim

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Harpercollins : 1997-10-01

Seller ID: 0060392177-3-25267078

ISBN-13: 9780060392178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The bestselling author of The Dark Side of the Game, former Atlanta Falcon Tim Green, delivers a heartfelt narrative of his quest to find his biological mother and understand his own roots. of photos.
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Adopting After Infertility

By: Johnston, Patricia Irwin

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Perspectives Pr : 1994-11-01

Seller ID: 0944934102-2-18893500

ISBN-13: 9780944934104

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

Adopting After Infertility

By: Johnston, Patricia Irwin

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Perspectives Pr : 1992-01-01

Seller ID: 0944934102-3-27659777

ISBN-13: 9780944934104

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Adopting On Your Own: The Complete Guide to Adoption for Single Parents

By: Varon, Lee

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : 2000-10-04

Seller ID: 0374128839-3-27593089

ISBN-13: 9780374128838

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

The first guide of its kind, covering all stages of the adoption processAdopting on Your Own addresses the questions and concerns of prospective single parents. Lee Varon, a practicing therapist specializing in adoption counseling and the single mother of two adopted children, helps readers make an evenhanded assessment of whether adoption is right for them, then leads them through the different stages of arranging and financing the adoption. She weighs the advantages of open versus closed and international versus domestic adoption for the single parent, and demystifies potentially daunting st...
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Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids

By: Gregory C. Keck; Regina M. Kupecky; L.G. Mansfield [Editor]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: NavPress : 1998-05-01

Seller ID: 1576830942-4-19091798

ISBN-13: 9781576830949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Written in a nontechnical style, this book brings to light grim truths but also real hope that children who have been hurt can be healed and brought back into life by adoptive and foster parents, therapists, teachers, social workers, and others whose lives interact with theirs.
- Includes information on foreign adoptions
- Also available: Parenting the Hurt Child
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Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids

By: Gregory C. Keck; Regina M. Kupecky; L.G. Mansfield [Editor]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: NavPress : 1998-05-01

Seller ID: 1576830942-3-22016984

ISBN-13: 9781576830949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Written in a nontechnical style, this book brings to light grim truths but also real hope that children who have been hurt can be healed and brought back into life by adoptive and foster parents, therapists, teachers, social workers, and others whose lives interact with theirs.
- Includes information on foreign adoptions
- Also available: Parenting the Hurt Child
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Adopting the Older Child

By: Jewett, Claudia L.

Price: $3.76 USD

Publisher: Harvard Common Press : 1978-01-01

Seller ID: 0916782085-4-28589660

ISBN-13: 9780916782085

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Adoption Without Fear

By: Gritter, James L. [Editor]

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Corona Pub Co : 1989-03-01

Seller ID: 0931722713-3-25331629

ISBN-13: 9780931722714

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries

By: Register, Cheri

Price: $4.89 USD

Publisher: Free Press : 1990-11-30

Seller ID: 0029257506-11-14880103

ISBN-13: 9780029257500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)

By: Brodzinsky, David M.; Schecter, Marshall D.; Henig, Robin Marantz

Price: $4.89 USD

Publisher: Anchor : 1993-03-01

Seller ID: 0385414269-11-25918952

ISBN-13: 9780385414265

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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.
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Birthbond: Reunions Between Birthparents and Adoptees ? What Happens After

By: Gediman, Judith S.; Brown, Linda P.

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: New Horizon Press : 1991-10-15

Seller ID: 0882820729-3-17485844

ISBN-13: 9780882820729

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Clears up misconceptions about mothers who give up their children for adoption and the reunions of a
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Children of Open Adoption and Their Families

By: Silber, Kathleen; Dorner, Patricia Martinez

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Corona Pub Co : 1990-02-01

Seller ID: 0931722780-3-15931270

ISBN-13: 9780931722783

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Coming home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up

By: Verrier, Nancy N

Price: $12.34 USD

Publisher: Verrier Publishing : 2003-03-17

Seller ID: 0963648012-11-28904751

ISBN-13: 9780963648013

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

Coming Home to Self is a book about becoming aware. It is written for all members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents as well as those who are in relationship with them, including professionals. It explains the influence imprinted upon the nuerological system and, thus, on future functioning. It explains how false beliefs create fear and perpetuate being ruled by the wounded child. It is a book which will help adoptees discover their authentic selves after living without seeing themselves reflected back all their lives.
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Dear Birthmother

By: Silber, Kathleen; Speedlin, Phyllis

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Corona Pub Co : 1991-05-01

Seller ID: 0931722209-4-26270755

ISBN-13: 9780931722202

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby

By: Silber, Kathleen; Speedlin, Phylis

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Corona Pub Co : 1991-01-01

Seller ID: 0931722195-3-25330384

ISBN-13: 9780931722196

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Gift Children: A Story of Race, Family, and Adoption in a Divided America

By: Bates, J. Douglas

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields : 1993-01-01

Seller ID: 0395633141-3-27038890

ISBN-13: 9780395633144

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

How to Adopt Internationally: A Guide for Agency-Directed and Independent Adoptions, Revised and Updated Edition for 2003

By: Jean Nelson Erichsen; Erichsen, Heino R.

Price: $6.30 USD

Publisher: Mesa House Pub : 2003-01-03

Seller ID: 094035215X-3-27905095

ISBN-13: 9780940352155

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

How to Adopt Internationally is organized around 23 easy-to-follow steps that lead readers through every phase of the international adoption process from finding an agency and organizing a home study to choosing a country to adopt from, working through emigration and immigration, traveling abroad, and adjusting to a new life with a child. The book includes detailed instructions for estimating the cost of an international adoption and also provides samples of almost all forms and documents parents will be required to fill out or provide including sample guidelines used to conduct a home study. ...
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International Adoption: Sensitive Advice for Prospective Parents

By: Knoll, Jean; Murphy, Mary-Kate

Price: $5.70 USD

Publisher: Chicago Review Press : 1994-05-28

Seller ID: 1556522118-3-28941988

ISBN-13: 9781556522116

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

An insightful, practical discussion of the realities of intercountry adoption. Includes an appendix of agencies and organizations.
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Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

By: Kennedy, Randall

Price: $10.96 USD

Publisher: Pantheon : 2003-01-07

Seller ID: 0375402551-11-23994774

ISBN-13: 9780375402555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found

By: Saffian, Sarah

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group : 1999-10-12

Seller ID: 0385334516-3-26348049

ISBN-13: 9780385334518

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

The voice on the other end of the line was soft, yet forthright: "Sarah, my name is Hannah Morgan. I think I'm your birth mother." The phone call, wholly unexpected, instantly turned Sarah Saffian's world upside-down, threatening her sense of family, identity, self. Adopted as an infant twenty-three years before, living happily in New York, Sarah had been "found" by her biological parents despite her reluctance to embrace them. In this searing, lyrical memoir, Sarah chronicles her painful journey from confusion and anger to acceptance and, finally, reunion--but not until three soul-searching y...
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Losing Jessica

By: Robby DeBoer

Price: $3.93 USD

Publisher: Doubleday : 1994-07-01

Seller ID: 038547458X-3-21412159

ISBN-13: 9780385474580

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Love in the Driest Season

By: Tucker, Neely

Price: $3.50 USD

Publisher: Crown : 2004-02-17

Seller ID: 0609609769-3-26512920

ISBN-13: 9780609609767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Loved By Choice: True Stories That Celebrate Adoption

By: Horner, Susan; Martindale, Kelly Fordyce

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Revell : 2002-03-01

Seller ID: 0800717864-3-24942234

ISBN-13: 9780800717865

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Loved by Choice offers a clear and uplifting look at adoption from virtually every perspective. It is comprised of true stories that reflect the joys and the difficulties of those touched by adoption. Families working out an overseas adoption, those creating interracial families, grandparents, birth mothers, and even birth fathers are among the many who tell their stories. Two appendices define adoption terms and outline resources that will be helpful to those exploring adoption. The emphasis of Loved by Choice, though, is to demonstrate how adoption can complete a family. It's a poignant ...
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Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent's Guide

By: Lois Ruskai Melina

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : 1989-09-13

Seller ID: 0060963190-3-21208997

ISBN-13: 9780060963194

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

When to tell, What to tell, and How to tellChildren who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate and respond to those concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities parents will find answers to such questions as: -- When should I give my child the letter her birthmother wrote?-- How do I share information that might upset my child?--...
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Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent's Guide

By: Lois Ruskai Melina

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : 1989-09-13

Seller ID: 0060963190-4-25466706

ISBN-13: 9780060963194

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

When to tell, What to tell, and How to tellChildren who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate and respond to those concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities parents will find answers to such questions as: -- When should I give my child the letter her birthmother wrote?-- How do I share information that might upset my child?--...
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My New Family: A First Look at Adoption (A First Look at...Series)

By: Thomas, Pat; Harker, Lesley [Illustrator]

Price: $3.45 USD

Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing : 2003-05-01

Seller ID: 0764124617-3-28001437

ISBN-13: 9780764124617

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Children are sometimes upset to discover that they have been adopted. This book helps them understand how lucky they are to have to have loving, adoptive parents--and how lucky their parents are to have them A First Look At 1/2 is an easy-to-understand series of books for younger children. Each title explores emotional issues and discusses the questions such difficulties invariably raise among kids of preschool through early school age. Written by a psychotherapist and child counselor, each title promotes positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers. The books are written in si...
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Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for Those Touched by Adoption

By: Patricia Irwin Johnston; Patricia Irwin Johnston [Editor]; Diana L. Stanley [Illustrator];

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Perspectives Press/Koryo Company : 1983-03-01

Seller ID: 0960950400-3-20319707

ISBN-13: 9780960950409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Raising Adopted Children

By: Melina, Lois Ruskai

Price: $3.44 USD

Publisher: HarpPeren : 1986-05-21

Seller ID: 0060960396-3-26248805

ISBN-13: 9780060960391

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

When it Debuted in 1986, Raising Adopted Children was the first book to look at the issues faced by adoptive families after a child comes home. Now, in this illuminating new edition, author Lois Ruskai Melina, mother of two children by adoption -- and frequently referred to as the "Dr. Spock for adoptive parents" -- addresses the changes that have affected adoption over the past 10 years and also offers her own ever-evolving wealth of knowledge.Drawing on research in child development, psychology, sociology, and medicine, readers will discover the facts about open adoption, prenatal drug expos...
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Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent

By: Melina, Lois Ruskai

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : 1998-07-10

Seller ID: 0060957174-3-24365870

ISBN-13: 9780060957179

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In this completely revised and updated edition of Raising Adopted Children, Lois Melina, editor of Adopted Child newsletter and the mother of two children by adoption, draws on the latest research in psychology, sociology, and medicine to guide parents through all stages of their child's development. Melina addresses the pressing adoption issues of today, such as open adoption, international adoption, and transracial adoption, and answers parents' most frequently asked questions, such as: How will my child bond or form attachments to me?When and how should I tell my child that he was adopted?W...
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Searching for a Past: The Adopted Adult's Unique Process of Finding Identity

By: Schooler, Jayne

Price: $17.06 USD

Publisher: Pinon Pr : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: 0891098682-11-28713189

ISBN-13: 9780891098683

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

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Category: Adoption