Family & Relationships - Adoption & Fostering
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20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed: Discover the Secrets to Understanding the Unique Needs of Your Adopted Child-Andbecoming the Best Parent YDo I have what it takes to be a successful adoptive parent?Does my child consider me a successful parent?Will I ever hear my rebellious teen say, "I love you"?What tools do I need to succeed?In her groundbreaking first book, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish...
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A Person My Colour"Such a cute baby, where did you get her?""This is such a good thing you are doing.""My friends were lucky, they got a white baby."Born in Germany in the 1960s to war-traumatized parents, Martina Dahlmanns grew up in middle class suburbia, surrounded by loaded...
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A Short History of Queer ParentingA funny, bullshit-free and surprising history Queer families have always existed Even Sappho, the OG lesbian, had a daughter named Cleis, in honour of vaginas everywhere! For centuries, the women of 'The Golden Orchid Society' in Qing-dynasty China were getting married and raising daughters...
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All You Can Ever Know: A MemoirA 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...
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Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories) 2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and...
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Breaking the Patterns That Break You: Healing from the Pain of Your Past and Finding Real Hope That LastsExperience lasting healing and real hope as you learn to break free of destructive patterns in your life.At some point everyone finds themselves wondering...Why do I keep falling into the same patterns that leave me feeling broken?Will I ever move past the pain and...
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Cekpa: A Memoir in Beaded EssaysFor Leah Altman, growing up as an adoptee outside of her culture meant growing up without her cekpa, the Lakota connection to family and homeland. Now an adult, Leah departs her life in Portland, Oregon, to seek out her birth family and reconnect to...
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Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself HomeA Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found. By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have come into her family and left--all of...
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Coming home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows UpComing 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...
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Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks: A Memoir"One life I've lived was liminal - I was not what I had been, but I had yet to become what I will be."In her memoir Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks, Ashley McLain moves from an adopted child in 1970s Dallas to a pioneering...
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Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your selfParenting is hard. So what do you do when you're parenting a child who has experienced trauma or has extra challenges? You often feel alone and inadequate. You want so much to help your child, but you are at the end of your own...
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated TwinsNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy and the rise of international adoption--from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy "Remarkable . . . Barbara Demick movingly...
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Essential FASD Supports: Understanding and Supporting People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum DisordersPeople with FASDs Can Be Successful-with Support!The question is, how do we support them? Despite being one of the most common developmental disabilities in the world, there is little understanding (and even fewer services) for people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) and their...
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1...
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First-Time Fostering: A Practical Guide for Supporting Kids in Foster CareThe must-read resource for foster parents, resource parents, care providers, foster carers, guardians, and social service professionals!Real Help for Real Moments in Foster CareWhen you don't know what to do, this book is here to help. Parenting a child in foster care comes with...
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Found and LostFound and Lost is the shocking true story of an abandoned child turned executive, and her journeyto reveal her biological family's true identity. In this book, we follow Leigha Janelle Curry (NeéShepard) as she unearths her genealogy and demands answers of those who left...
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I Was Your Black Child: What White Parents Raising Black Children Need to Hear Before It's Too LateI was 49 years old before I knew what it felt like to look at someone and see myself.I grew up Black in a white family in Lincoln, Nebraska, raised by parents who loved me completely and still missed almost everything I needed them...
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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A MemoirA Library Journal best memoir of 2023 - Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth...
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Love Does Not Conquer All: And Other Surprising Lessons I Learned as a Foster Dad to More Than 40 Kids"A roadmap for healing and connection that every parent and child could benefit from."--Tori Hope Petersen, bestselling author and speaker- from a former street kid turned adoptive dad and foster dad- how to parent with grace and consistency- special information about dealing with challenging...
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Love Without BordersFor more than three decades into the early 21st Century, China's effort to curb population growth through the "one-child policy" created a wave of abandoned Chinese infants, most of them girls. Around 160,000 of these Chinese children found homes abroad, with more than half...
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