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Adoption books

Below are the best books we could find on Adoption.

Adoption is a process that involves a guardian or guardians legally assuming parental responsibility for a child. Regardless of the method of adoption—open, closed, international, embryo, transracial, foster care, or adult—the process is usually long, expensive, and stressful. After the joy and exhilaration when the process is complete and legal, there’s a host of small and large adjustments to navigate that can last for years or an entire lifetime.

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Worlds Apart: My Personal Life Journey through Transcultural Poverty, Privilege, and Passion

Worlds Apart is a deeply personal and beautifully written narrative about being plunged into a new culture as a child – and daring to emerge as a unique presence in an adopted society.

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The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption.

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The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption

Over 150,000 people adopt children each year, and more than 2 million parents are now raising adopted children and grandchildren. While the path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment, it's not without its bumps.

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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s

Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.

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The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families

Two leading experts provide an authoritative and reassuring guide to the issues and concerns of adoptive and birth families through all stages of the open adoption relationship.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Joy of Adoption—101 Stories about Forever Families and Meant-to-Be Kids

You’ll be uplifted and inspired by this collection of 101 stories about forever families, meant-to-be kids, and the joy of adoption. This updated collection of stories about adoption includes our favorites from the original Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul plus 17 new stories.

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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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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.

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Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting Wounded Children without Losing Your Self

Parenting 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 rope. You feel guilty that sometimes you want to just quit.

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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid’s tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that.

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