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Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers “”age out”” of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for [...]

The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze. You the new groupie, huh?”” “”Yeah,”” I said. “”So?”” [...]

This book is meant to provide basic information for the practitioner caring for internationally adopted children and to give information to adoptive parents. Author: Miller, LaurieAdditional [...]

This book tells the story of Jennings Michael Burch who at the age of eight painfully concluded love only meant loss. His lonely odyssey began one rainy day in Brooklyn […]

Stories of America’s Children in Foster Care. In this tale of five children caught in a system incrisis, Toth chronicles the complexities of a culture that both liberates and hobbles […]

This book and its research overturns stereotypes and challenges the conventional wisdom on abandonment and adoption in China. Author: Johnson, Kay AnnAdditional Author: Yeong & Yeong Book [...]

Being a teenager in today’s complex world is a difficult enough task, but adopted teens have an additional struggle: to discover their identity and a sense of belonging and place […]

Memoirs of an adopted daughter. The classic memoir of Betty Jean Lifton’s search for her secret past that helped open the way for so many others. Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed […]

Biographies of an adoptive parent supportive group. All contributors to the book are intimately connected with special needs adoption. Support group members are adoptive parents of kids who meet [...]

Answers questions, offers information about who can adopt, why adoption should be considered, how kids understand adoption as they grow up and more. Author: Patricia Irwin JohnsonAdditional [...]