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What to Know Before Adopting a Child

By David Dodge — 2020

There are three main paths to adopting. The route you choose will be based on personal, legal and financial factors.

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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.

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Ann Fessler
2025
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This Is How Parents Pass Trauma Down to Children - Fear Not with Iyanla Vanzant - OWN

Educator Dr. Steve Perry explains how parents can unknowingly pass down harmful messages to their children and cause lifelong trauma in the process.

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2020
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Breaking Generational Cycles of Trauma | Brandy Wells | TEDxKingLincolnBronzeville

Brandy shares a personal story of how a 8 year old girl who felt abandonment begin her healing process because of the birth of her own daughters as an adult.

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2019
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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams
2020
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