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  • Big Steps for Little People

    Parenting Your Adopted Child

    by Celia Foster ...
    This book is full of the techniques that we have used successfully over the years. Many we have adapted to suit their needs and many we have made up ourselves. What we have become particularly good at is not giving up!'A mother of two adopted children, Celia Foster wrote Big Steps for Little People as a personal `insider's guide' to parenting adopted children.Drawing on the hard-won wisdom gained ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

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  • Heartlines

    The Year I Met My Other Mother

    by Susannah McFarlane, Robin Leuba ...
    This is what happened the year I met my other mother.In 1965, Robin, unmarried and pregnant, comes to Melbourne to give birth and give her baby up for adoption, then returns to Perth to resume her life having never seen her baby. After 10 days alone, the baby, is taken home, named Susannah, and made part of a wonderful family that loves her. The adoption laws at the time guarantee that there can ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Mamalita

    An Adoption Memoir

    by Jessica O'Dwyer ...
    This gripping memoir details an ordinary American woman's quest to adopt a baby girl from Guatemala in the face of overwhelming adversity. At only 32 years old, Jessica O'Dwyer experiences early menopause, seemingly ending her chances of becoming a mother. Years later, married but childless, she comes across a photo of a two-month-old girl on a Guatemalan adoption website, and feels an instant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Wuhu Diary

    On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

    by Emily Prager ...
    In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughter–now a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • How It Feels to Be Adopted

    by Jill Krementz ...
    In these wonderfully straightforward accounts of what it means to children to be adopted, nineteen boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years old—and from every social background—confide their feelings about this crucial fact of their lives. It is deeply affecting to listen to these children as they reveal their questions, frustrations, difficulties, and joys with an honesty that is immediate, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Crossing Swords

    Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage

    by Cindy Peyser Safronoff ...
    A woman is running for US President! Socialism is gaining ground in America, and a campaign is underway to redefine marriage, causing a culture war between Christian leaders and feminists. The year is 1872, and Victoria Woodhull is leading the radical faction of the women's rights movement along with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. On the other end of the women's rights spectrum, more ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Sons and Mothers

    Stories from Mennonite Men

    Edited by Mary Ann Loewen ...
    The reflections in Sons and Mothers delve deep into the often close, but sometimes troubled, relationships that exist between mothers and sons. With remarkable honesty and grace, the contributors tell of the complicated, vulnerable, and inspirational women who formed them, and reveal struggles over faith, unfulfilled dreams, and aging.Patrick Friesen, Howard Dyck, Josiah Neufeld, and others share ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Life Story Books for Adopted Children

    A Family Friendly Approach

    by Joy Rees ...
    Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life.   This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive family. Joy Rees' ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Why There Are No Good Men Left

    The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman

    by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead ...
    A hard-hitting, groundbreaking exploration of the new mating conditions that are changing the face of love, commitment, and marriage as we know it.A double revolution is at work in modern American love: A revolution in higher education has created the most professionally accomplished and independent generation of young women in history, and a revolution in mating has created a prolonged and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Invisible Men of Adoption

    by Gary Coles ...
    This book is about the fathers of children who were raised in other adoptive families. Frequently in writings about the separation of parent and child the emphasis is on the mother and her son or daughter. The father is an absent or at best a peripheral figure. The Invisible Men of Adoption brings the father into the open and accords him his proper place within the family of origin. Through this ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Babies for Sale?

    Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction

    Edited by Miranda Davies ...
    Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

    Cultural Guidance for Professionals

    Edited by Rowena Fong, Ruth McRoy ...
    With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD