FAW: How Fostering Affects the Whole Family
How Fostering Affects the Whole Family Parenting has often been called the most difficult job you’ll ever love. And, as all parents know, the job comes with countless surprises, joys, […]
Encouragement for the Adoption & Parenting Journey
Adoption and subsequent parenting can be an overwhelming and trying journey, one you were never meant to travel alone. trying journey, one you were never meant to travel alone. […]
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds – the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered […]
Orbiting Jupiter
When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost killed a teacher. He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain. He has […]
Battle-Weary Parents
In the midst of the storm, when it rains, it pours. Sometimes the only way to survive is to drop your umbrella and dance in the rain. From the moment […]
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby’s name is an artist is now a twelve-year-old girl who’s been in so many foster homes she […]
Where Has Mommy Gone? – A young girl and a mother who no longer knows her
The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent single mother and brought into care. When Cathy is told about […]
Far From the Tree
Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, […]
Confessions of an Adoptive Parent – Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption
Adopting or fostering a child brings its own unique set of challenges only another parent facing the same uphill climb could possibly understand. From parenting children with traumatic pasts, to […]
Take Me Home – Protecting America’s Vulnerable Children and Families
There is a profound crisis in the United States’ foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes in this expertly researched, passionately written book. No state has passed the federally mandated […]
