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The Family of Adoption
Joyce Maguire Pavao dedicates her book The Family of Adoption in part to her two mothers, who died two weeks apart. "They both died of secrecy," she writes. "One could no longer talk, silenced by her disease. One could no longer think or remember.... I love and cherish what each of my mothers endured and imparted.... I refuse to have secrets and I work to change a system that perpetrates them." As adoption becomes more discussed and less taboo, the emotional road maps become clearer for adoptive families, birth mothers, and children of adoption. The Family of Adoption is a gentle, essential addition to the literature that will help guide families of adoption along the path. --Ericka Lutz Amazon.com

Adopting the Older Child

This book discusses expectations for those who wish to open their hearts to an older waiting child. Issues explored include adoption decision-making and processes, adjustment, and behavior modification. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0916782093/childrenshopeint

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss
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A Child's Journey through Placement

This book provides the foundation and the tools to help professionals and parents support children for whom the journey through adoption is a part of the road to adulthood. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944934110/childrenshopeint

The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adoptedbook1.gif (39097 bytes) Daughters Tell Their Stories
Adoption has always been a woman's issue. With eloquence and conviction, more than 30 diverse birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adoptees tell their adoption stories and explore what is a deeply emotional, sometimes controversial, and always compelling experience that affects millions of families and individuals.

The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past

The Lost Daughters of China is that rare book that can be many things to different people. Part memoir, part travelogue, part East-West cultural commentary, and part adoption how-to, Karin Evans's book is greater than the sum of its parts. Evans weaves together her experience of adopting a Chinese infant with observations about Chinese women's history and that country's restrictive, if unevenly enforced, reproductive policies. She and her husband adopted Kelly Xiao Yu in 1997, and anyone curious about adopting from a Chinese orphanage--which houses girls and disabled boys--will learn about the mechanics and the emotional freight of the two-year process. Borrowing an image from Chinese folklore, Evans conveys herself, her husband, and their daughter as tethered by a red string that yoked them across an ocean and an equally awesome cultural divide. -- Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944934110/childrenshopeint