Family & Relationships - Adoption & Fostering
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The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American OrphanhoodThe orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashion. Step two: Orphan acquires caretakers who amplify the world's cruelty. Step three: Orphan escapes and goes...
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There: We Found Our Family In A New York City Subway StationCertain events in life are so rare they can be freely dismissed as impossibilities. Getting struck by lightning, surviving a plane crash, or winning the lottery. When something shocking happens and doesn't end in tragedy, we say it must be fate, destiny, a miracle,...
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There: We Found Our Family In A New York City Subway StationCertain events in life are so rare they can be freely dismissed as impossibilities. Getting struck by lightning, surviving a plane crash, or winning the lottery. When something shocking happens and doesn't end in tragedy, we say it must be fate, destiny, a miracle,...
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They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional SurvivalThe heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy's horrific journey through the American foster care system One misty evening, Jennings Michael Burch's mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, "I'll be right...
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This Little Fire of Mine: How Flickers of Doubt Can Spark a Bolder, Brighter FaithFind the fearless faith you've been longing for when you learn to let go of expectations and embrace your deepest convictions.Join adoptive mom, Army wife, and influencer Kendall Mariah as she shows you how embracing the uncomfortable friction that comes with leaning into the...
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Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial AdopteeAs a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned "whether my skin was too dark" and...
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Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in GuatemalaFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionThe poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth...
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What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry AdoptionIn 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Congress, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program, which would facilitate the migration...
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You Can't Get Rid Of Me: An adopted son's search for familyDo you know your roots? DNA results and a search for his birth family take author Jesse Scott on a wild and rocky pursuit of his past as he uncovers the truth one piece at a time, a journey that redefines his identity and...
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You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial AdoptionAn adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures "Your parents are so amazing for adopting you! You should be grateful that you were adopted." Angela Tucker is a Black woman, adopted...
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