| International Adoption Travel Journal |
Mary Ebejer Peterty |
ISBN: 0965575306, Hardcover - 16.32 BUY
This book provides a record of your travel to get your child. It provides free space for writing information by using open-ended questions such as: Today was a ______day! and This morning we __________. There are many blank pages for journaling, a place for addresses, souvenirs and itineraries.
This has proved invaluable to me to remember things from both of my journeys...Joselle Merritt-Dennis
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| Attaching in Adoption |
Gray |
ISBN: 0944934293, Hardcover - BUY
Gray, a clinical social worker specializing in attachment, grief and trauma, has penned a comprehensive guidebook for adoptive parents, taking an in-depth look at how children and families adjust. The author notes that many of today's adoptions involve older children who may have been abused or neglected, or who may have spent years in institutions or various foster situations; due to their past experiences these children may have difficulty attaching to their adoptive parents.
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| Raising Adopted Children |
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ISBN: 0060957174, Hardcover - BUY
Drawing on the findings and practices of pediatricians, social workers, scientists, and adoptive parents, Raising Adopted Children is carefully and thoroughly researched. Chapters on open adoption, international adoption, and transracial adoption are combined with advice on bonding and attachment, breast-feeding an adoptive infant (possible but complicated), dealing with schools, privacy issues, adopting a child with disabilities, adopting as a single parent, and the challenges of adolescence.
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| Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew |
Sherrie Eldridge |
ISBN: 044050838X, Hardcover - BUY
From Library Journal
As both an adoptee and president of Jewel Among Jewels Adoption Network, Eldridge brings an original approach to the topic of adoption. In an attempt to inform adoptive parents of the unique issues adoptees face, she discusses adoptee anger, mourning, and shame and adoption acknowledgment while using case studies to illustrate how parents can better relate to their adopted child. This book is solidly written but not without its flaws; most importantly, it lacks information concerning child development, e.g., whether parents should use the same approach to questions with a three-year-old as with a 14-year-old. Still, this book will go well in any collection dealing with adoption, complementing David M. Brodzinsky's Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor, 1993) and Joyce Maguire Pavao's The Family of Adoption (Beacon, 1998).AMee-Len Hom, Hunter Coll. Lib., New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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| Borya and the Burps: An Eastern European Adoption Story |
Joan McNamara |
ISBN: 0944934315, Hardcover - BUY
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| When I Met You: A Story of Russian Adoption |
Adrienne Ehlert Bashista |
ISBN: 1933084006, Hardcover - BUY
A child's life doesn't begin at adoption, and neither should his adoption story. This charming, delightful narrative of a Russian adoption contrasts a child's life before and after adoption in ways that are respectful and insightful, explanatory and celebratory. From the first page: When I first met you, you lived in Russia, a country far across the ocean. Now, you live here, close to my heart, to the last: You will always be Russia's child. But now, you are also mine, When I Met You carefully balances memories of Russia with new experiences in America, celebrating both. --Adoptive Families Magazine
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