Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents: Recruiting, Assessing and Supporting an Untapped resource for Children and Youth. Six to ten million children of lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents [...]
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 [...]
Awakening the ordinary miracle of healing. Infancy Through Adolescence. Peter Levine’s work in trauma is grounded in medical biophysics, psychophysiology, and psychology, as well as his own [...]
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 […]
This book is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis – the disproportionate representation of Black Children in the Foster Care System and its effects on Black Communities [...]
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 […]
