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This book covers common open adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.
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A guide for adoptive parents that covers such topics as bonding, effects on the family, explaining to the adopted child, medical history, contact with biological relatives, ethnic identity, international adoption, and behavioral problems. Also includes practical resources on child-rearing leave, health insurance, naturalization, and other related topics.
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When to tell, What to tell, and How to tell?
Children who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate and respond to those concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities parents will find answers...
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"The story began like a dream... A child is born with all the possibilities of a bright future. Nearby, a loving family waits for the son they have always dreamed of. When they become a family, little league, playdates, birthday parties and college scholarships all seem within the grasp of this all-American family. But when the fairy tale ended... The family realizes their precious child is struggling with the most basic developmental milestones,...
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"Hoping to help lift the veil of secrecy and shame that too often surrounds parents struggling with attachment issues, Traster describes how with work, commitment, and acceptance, she and her husband have been able to close the gulf between them and their daughter to form a loving bond, and concludes by providing practical advice, strategies, and resources for parents and caregivers."--p. [2] cover.
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If you are an adult adoptee or someone with unknown parentage, you may be aware that genetic genealogy and DNA testing are changing many aspects of the genealogy search. Berger guides you step-by-step through a strategy she has used to solve hundreds of cases of unknown parentage and other family tree mysteries. In addition, she offers advice on what to say when you reach out to long-lost family members. -- adapted from back cover
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The inspiring true story of a four-year-old Chinese orphan who convinces her adoptive American family to return to China to rescue the little boy she couldn't forget.
Adopted by an American family at age four, Jaclyn traveled to her new home with a great burden. Her new family had to leave behind a little boy who had been under her charge at the Chinese orphanage where Jaclyn fought the odds against abandonment, institutionalization, and hunger,...
8) Lucky girl
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In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan arrived in America, the newly adopted child of a loving couple in Michigan. Mei-Ling Hopgood had an all-American upbringing, never really identifying with her Asian roots or...
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