Adoption Books

If you're the sort of person for whom fantasy is sometimes just as "real" as fantasy, you'll love this book. It reads like and old fashioned classic with modern-day insight. I loved the ending.

Professionally I work with adoptive couples. This booklet is required reading for them and I also suggest that they share it with family members as well. This booklet provides the back-ground reasons for why we have openness today. It shares how it works, why it works, how it is beneficial to all involve. It doesn't sugar-coat that adoption is still built on loss and grief for all. But in understanding those losses from all points of view, healing can occur and secrecy and shame can be put to rest. This benefits the birth parents and the adoptive parents, but the child most of all. It's 21 pages of dynamite! (I would also share that I'm a birth grandmother with an open placement. We may still be in the "honeymoon" period, but so far it's been wonderful! Like any relationship, I'm sure there will be some ups and downs. Learning to deal openly with the issues will make the relationship all the stronger and more valued.)

Fifteen years ago, fifteen-year-old Gail gave her newborn baby up for adoption. And now, she realizes that her daughter is as old as she was then. Gail's husband tries to help Gail by locating the girl, but this only leads to more and more problems. Can her faith in Christ see her through this crisis? And, can she help a daughter she has never known?

This is a wonderfully touching Christian story. It is the story of people who have done things in their past that they are ashamed of, things for which God has forgiven them, but for which they cannot forgive themselves. It is a story of coming to grips with sin no matter how big, and moving beyond them no matter how hard. I greatly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to you.

A Must read book for People who have a heart.It May Be A short Book but it has a huge heart.If You are a teenager struggling to cope with life, a young Mum,a parent, grandparent anyone really this book will give you hope on relationships.If you are feeling down lost in your place on this earth,The life struggles of Candice Williams will hit home with some issues i'm sure we all face and that there is a light for everyone at the end of the tunnel."Life is What You Make it" Thanks Candice for showing me that i'm not alone and there is hope and to 2 special friends Jacqui & Rachel that you are always loved no matter what.World needs more people like you Candice Williams.

Although I haven't used the CD, I do have the book (which came out a couple of years ago). It is a great resource for missions committees, prayer groups, youth groups and missions-minded Christians. It brings together in a concise format how to specifically pray for the spiritual needs of countries in the 10/40 Window. The addition of the CD can only make this an even more resourceful tool.

Anyone who is thinking about adopting a child or already has done so really should read this clearly written, engaging study of the history of adoption in the United States. Berebitsky's book is history that is relevant to our lives today and to the problems so many of us have confronted as we have explored how adoption relates to the so-called "real" biological family. To put it simply, the author shows that the issues and problems that adoptive parents face today are hardly new, but have a long and rich history. The best example of how the past illuminates the present is what Berebitsky discovers about the many unmarried women living before 1920 and who adopted children even though they either had no husband or were living with a female partner. Such women were not only accepted as mothers, they were encouraged to adopt such children. At a time when people believed that women's natures suited them to rear children, even women without a man in the house were sufficient as mothers. Beginning in the 1920s, though, single women fell out of favor as adoptive parents. That was when child "experts" and social critics began worrying that women without the tempering hand of a husband might "smother" their children with excessive affection or that mature unmarried women were really lesbians who would pass their deviance on to their children. What Berebitsky's work shows, then, is that there really is no such thing as a "real" or "natural" family that the rest of us must measure ourselves or our domestic arrangements against. In the recent past there were real alternatives to the "natural" family of married mother and father. Any adoptive parents today, as well as single women and gay or lesbian couples who are creating their own families through adoption will find plenty of evidence here to show that the unnatural or deviant ones are those who say there is only one kind of real family.

Parents have the help of their family doctor, caring neighbors, and an understanding policeman to take a young child who had been badly abused and literally trashed and through their love, help the boy to fully recover and to know family love. A must read for all ages!!

Bought this Locator for a friend. She was looking for her Birthmom. She used the book and it really helped her. She found her Birthmom and is now using it to find her Birthdad. This Locator saved her alot of money and she was able to use it over and over again. She wrote me a a nice Thank You card. I still have it.

Patty was an eight years old orphan, and she was adopted by Mr and Mrs Baker, who had eleven adopted-kids already! When Patty came, her new sister, Hilary, was totally rude to her. And Hilary would do anything that would drive Patty away. Would Patty able to stay in the Bakers, or she would have to go? Read for yourself!

I'm purchasing a copy for my children's school library. This story contains many important aspects of how God builds families transracially and transculturally. Significantly, God is presented as the Creator who has a special plan for all of His creation. Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ allows the believer to be adopted into God's family, which is "even more important" than a first adoption. Trust in God's plan for the adopted child leads to peace, acceptance, and joy for birthparents, adoptive parents, and importantly for adopted children. Every Christian adoptive family should have this book!