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Insight Into Adoption
Why is there misunderstanding surrounding the adoption world? This need not be. Knowledge and insight provide enlightenment to dilemmas often found in adoptive families. This updated third edition of Insight Into Adoption explains why people in the adoption world think and feel the way they do. Adoptees and adoptive parents should know their feelings and thoughts, although different, are normal. Once understood, misconceptions fall away. They're in a unique situation-living and loving in a family where members are not biologically connected to one another. Thousands of readers have already benefitted from Insight Into Adoption. The author has heard, "I read your book. How could you know what...
Randy's Ride
Randy never felt like he fit in. Adopted when he was young, he never found his place within his family. Because of this disconnected feeling, Randy decided to set out on his own. Author Barbara Blomquist invites readers to come along on Randy's Ride, a touching story of one young man's journey to self-discovery. During his travels, Randy meets interesting people who teach him many life lessons. There's Ellie, a hard woman struggling with the death of her mother; Bill, the teacher who encourages Randy to make something of himself; and Mindy, a young girl who touches Randy's heart. Through his encounters with these individuals and others, Randy learns a very important lesson: your life is what you make it.
Kinship by Design
What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption’s history. Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred between households by a variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen Herman details efforts by the U.S. Children’s Bureau and the Child Welfare League of America to establish adoption standards in law and practice. She goes on to trace Americans’ shifting ideas about matching children with physically or intellectually similar parents, revealing how research in developmental science and technology shaped adoption...
Searching for Abby
Searching for Abby is a tale of one woman's quest for self-knowledge, for an identity. In Abby Lang's case, this quest is complicated by the fact that she was adopted at four months of age and has no knowledge of her birth family. Abby leads a life that, by most accounts, would appear to be very fulfilling. She earns a college degree, marries her college sweetheart, and lives with Matt and their three children in the house of her dreams. Yet all along the way, uncertainties about her own identity and the nature of her birth family prevent her from feeling truly happy and satisfied. Abby's discovery that their new neighbor, Kathryn, had worked for the adoption agency that placed Abby propels Abby on a search for the truth about her birth family. This search carries her on a whirlwind of emotions and in due course, the discovery of her birth family's history. All, however, is not as it first appears. What new insights will be revealed? How will they change Abby? Will Searching for Abby finally lead to the peace and fulfillment that she seeks?
Insight Into Adoption
Discusses the emotional and adjustment issues faced by adoptive children and parents with advice on problem solving.
Insight Into Adoption
Why is there misunderstanding surrounding the adoption world? This need not be. Knowledge and insight provide enlightenment to dilemmas often found in adoptive families. This updated third edition of Insight Into Adoption explains why people in the adoption world think and feel the way they do. Adoptees and adoptive parents should know their feelings and thoughts, although different, are normal. Once understood, misconceptions fall away. They're in a unique situation-living and loving in a family where members are not biologically connected to one another. Thousands of readers have already benefitted from Insight Into Adoption. The author has heard, "I read your book. How could you know what...
Embracing the Adoption Effect
Terry never felt like he fit in, Nick identified himself as an outsider, and, at fifteen, Meg ran away from home. Terry's, Nick's, and Meg's stories are part of the twenty-nine profiles in Embracing the Adoption Effect. Some remarkable people shared their riveting, thought-provoking experiences in personal interviews for this project. This intimate collection, featuring accounts of adoption occurring from the 1940s to the 1990s, highlights the adoption emotional enigma that is a part of America's story. Whether adoptive parents, birth parents, or adult adoptees, these remarkable individuals, now aged twenty-five to eighty, have lived with secrets, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. Yet a...
Embracing the Adoption Effect
Terry never felt like he fit in, Nick identified himself as an outsider, and, at fifteen, Meg ran away from home. Terry's, Nick's, and Meg's stories are part of the twenty-nine profiles in Embracing the Adoption Effect. Some remarkable people shared their riveting, thought-provoking experiences in personal interviews for this project. This intimate collection, featuring accounts of adoption occurring from the 1940s to the 1990s, highlights the adoption emotional enigma that is a part of America's story.Whether adoptive parents, birth parents, or adult adoptees, these remarkable individuals, now aged twenty-five to eighty, have lived with secrets, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. Yet al...
