Adoption Unfiltered

Adoption Unfiltered
Author: Sara Easterly
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2023-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1538174707

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Adoption is a multi-sided experience that can feel like it takes place in a vacuum. Here, three participants in the adoption triad reveal the challenges, the triumphs, and everything in between from their perspectives of adopted, adopter, and birth parent, and those of others who have experienced adoption from a variety of perspectives and roles.

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
Author: Lori Holden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Adopted children
ISBN: 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.

Searching for Mom

Searching for Mom
Author: Sara Easterly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 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.

Labor of the Heart

Labor of the Heart
Author: Kathleen Whitten
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2008
Genre: Adoption
ISBN: 1590771338

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This guide provides adoptive parents advice in getting through the difficult emotions and decisions about adoption, from dealing with the emotional upheaval of dealing with the issue of infertility, to the ups and downs of the adoption process, the bureaucracy of adoption, and more.

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Author: Sherrie Eldridge
Publisher: Delta
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-10-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 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.

Inconceivable

Inconceivable
Author: Carolyn Savage
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-02-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0062041894

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A medical mistake during an IVF procedure. An unthinkable situation . . . you’re pregnant with the wrong baby. You can terminate, but you can’t keep him. What choice would you make? Carolyn and Sean Savage had been trying to expand their family for years. When they underwent an IVF transfer in February 2009, they knew it would be their last chance. If they became pregnant, they would celebrate the baby as an answer to their prayers. If not, they would be grateful for the family they had and leave their fertility struggles behind forever. They never imagined a third option. The pregnancy test was positive, but the clinic had transferred the wrong embryos. Carolyn was pregnant with someone else’s baby. The Savages faced a series of heartbreaking decisions: terminate the pregnancy, sue for custody, or hand over the infant to his genetic parents upon delivery. Knowing that Carolyn was carrying another couple’s hope for a baby, the Savages wanted to do what they prayed the other family would do for them if the situation was reversed. Sean and Carolyn Savage decided to give the ultimate gift, the gift of life, to a family they didn’t know, no strings attached. Inconceivable provides an inside look at how modern medicine, which creates miracles daily, could allow such a tragic mistake, and the many legal ramifications that ensued with both the genetic family and the clinic. Chronicling their tumultuous pregnancy and its aftermath, which tested the Savage’s faith, their relationship to their church, and their marriage, Inconceivable is ultimately a testament to love. Carolyn and Sean loved this baby, making it impossible for them to imagine how they could give him life and then give him away. In the end, Inconceivable is a story of what it is to be a parent, someone who nurtures a life, protects a soul, only to release that child into the world long before you’re ready to let him go.

Adopted Parents

Adopted Parents
Author: Candy Halliday
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426869282

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Hallie Weston has always known she's not mommy material. She's a career girl through and through. And that's never been a problem… until now. Because suddenly she's guardian for her infant niece, in charge of finding new adopted parents. Worse, she's sharing that responsibility with the baby's uncle, Nathan Brock. The help should be welcome—especially with Hallie out of her depth. Too bad the history she shares with Nate makes it impossible to be in the same house and ignore those old sparks. So they act on them and she's amazed about how good they are together. But when he suggests they stop the parent search and become a real family Hallie is torn between the role she never wanted and the man she always has.

Thicker Than Blood

Thicker Than Blood
Author: Salman Akhtar
Publisher: Margaret S. Mahler
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

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Thicker Than Blood addresses in depth the impact of adoption on biological parents, adoptive parents, adopted children, and siblings.

Chosen for Greatness

Chosen for Greatness
Author: Paul Batura
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621576019

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A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Synchronicity and Reunion

Synchronicity and Reunion
Author: LaVonne Harper Stiffler
Publisher: Fea Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1992
Genre: Adoption
ISBN:

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