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Launching a Baby's Adoption : Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals
Launching A Baby's Adoption incorporates anecdotal material solicited from adoptive parents and professionals throughout North America. Launching a Baby's Adoption fills the need of single and coupled parents seeking to adopt for information that can assist them in practical ways to bring a baby into their families and into their lives. Launching A Baby's Adoption is a valuable addition to the parenting collections of community libraries and is "must" reading for anyone seeking adoption as a means to enhancing their family life. author:  Midwest Book Review

The Primal Wound, Understanding the Adopted Child

A very interesting book. The author is very knowledgeable and insightful in exploring the process of being adopted. Although somewhat technical at times it addresses nearly every aspect of an adoptee’s world. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963648004/childrenshopeint

The Broken Cord

A celebrated author gives his account of how he and his family search for answers in dealing with his adopted son with FAS. It is a heat-rending book giving you much to think and feel about. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060916826/childrenshopeint

Toddler Adoption, The Weaver’s Craft

Written by an adoptive mother, Hopkins-Best draws a magnificent job of exploring many issues never discussed before in adopting toddler children. It will prepare you for every aspect of adopting toddlers! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944934218/childrenshopeint author:  Mary Hopkins-Best

Attachment
Bowlby's magisterial trilogy analyzes the impact of attachment, separation, and loss, and this first volume focuses on the critical role of the bond between mother and infant in emotional development. Allan Schore, whose pioneering synthesis of neurobiology with attachment research has shown how the brain gets into the act, contributes a foreword that catapults Bowlby's legacy into the new millennium.

Separation: Anxiety and Anger
The experience of separation and the ensuing susceptibility to anxiety, anger, and fear constitute the flip side of the attachment phenomenon. In an authoritative new foreword to Bowlby's classic study, Stephen Mitchell (who gives resonant voice to the relational perspective in psychoanalysis) bridges the distance between attachment theory and the psychoanalytic tradition.

Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children
This book spells out some of the trials foster and adoptive parents may find themselves up against with some concrete ideas to use to remedy negative situations. The book has ideas and strategies to help children with attachment disorders so that they can have the ability to function in a normal life. author:  Denise A. Hughes

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Need Kids: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Assists families in understanding children with special needs. Provides insight and support along with helpful ideas and suggestions. Very informative authors! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576830942/childrenshopeint

Handbook For Single Adoptive Parents
Information, encouragement and practical advice on the processes of adoption for singles, as well as financial aspects, life style changes, day care, and health care. author:  Hope Marindin

Adoption Resource Book

An informed and practical guide to agency and independent adoption, both domestic and international and how they work. Includes state-by-state guide to adoption agencies. Also information about preparing for and raising the adopted child. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062730436%20/childrenshopeint

Raising Adopted Children: A Manual for Adoptive Parents

This book covers current adoption research in child development, psychology, sociology, and medicine, while focusing on the experiences of adoptive families. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060960396/childrenshopeint

Voices from Another Place: A Collection of Works from a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries
This book is written by adult adoptees from Korea and captures their thoughts and feelings as adults. author:  Susan Soon-Keum Cox

Talking With Young Children About Adoption
Current wisdom holds that adoptive parents should talk with their child about adoption as early as possible. But no guidelines exist to prepare parents for the various ways their children might respond when these conversations take place. In this wise and sympathetic book, a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist, both adoptive mothers, discuss how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted, how it might appear in their play, and what worries they and their parents may have. Accounts by twenty adoptive parents of conversations about adoption with their children, from ages two to ten, graphically convey what the process of sharing about adoption is like. --Amazon.com

A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China
The author, Amy Klatzkin; amyk@alumni.stanford.org, February 20, 1999 Writings from Families with Children from China "A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China" began as an e-mail conversation among FCC newsletter editors. Within a few months that conversation had turned into a book of more than 100 articles from 24 adoptive family support groups in the U.S., Canada, and Britain. The quality, range, and depth of the writing far exceeded my expectations. There's something in here for everyone whose life has been touched by adoption from China: adoptive parents, waiting parents, family, and friends. author:  Amy Klatzkin

I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birthmothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children
I consider it an honor to be associated with this important book, unique because it invites the reader to hear and understand the voices of Korean women who have made the difficult decision to place their children for adoption. These letters are both heart-wrenching and hopeful. In editing this collection, I wanted to be mindful of the similarities of birth mother experiences across time and place, but also respectful of the unique context of Korea and of individual birth mothers. But most of all, I wanted the letters to speak for themselves--for adoptive parents and mature adoptees to be able to interact openly and thoughtfully with them. I hope that in the end this collection is both challenging and helpful. author:  Sara Dorow