Birth Parents
- Swing The Search for my Father, Louis Prima
- Alan was adopted soon after birth and suffered the pangs of rejection through his formative years even though he was raised in a warm, loving household. That nagging rejection prompted the unrelenting search for his birth parents when he reached his late 20’s.To compensate for feelings of rejection, many adoptees are known to fantasize that their birth parents were famous people.
- Blind in One Eye
- BLIND IN ONE EYEA Story About Seeing the PossibilitiesWhere was my brother, the one born seven years before me but kept by my birth parents? Was it really possible that, after the lifetime I'd spent wondering about him, he was the guy a friend had just seen on the subway – the one who supposedly looked like my older twin?Finding my brother would soon feel like a naïve goal.
- Together Again: True Stories of Birth Parents and Adopted Children Reunited
- A woman sets out to learn the truth about her troubled birth family at the urging of her adopted father. A mother who'd been trapped in a cycle of abuse seeks her long-lost children. A woman who had dreamed for years of a stable, loving family sees new hope. These touching, true stories are from the files of International Locator, Inc.
- Openness in Adoption
- Adoption Training for Parents and Professionals. All adoptive families must answer these important questions: How open should we be with our child about his birth parents? Should our child be have any contact with her birth parents? In this course you will gain a good foundation so that you will be prepared to address these issues.
- 10 Critical Guidelines to Begin Searching for Your Birth Family
- Based on tried-and-true methods, this 51-page book includes critical guidelines for adoptees, adoptive parents, & birth parents, searching & finding each other. How to get organized, where to start, state laws, registries, how to write letters & get results, public records, search & support groups, book lists, and getting prepared for a reunion.
- Everything You Need to Know About Being Adopted
- Gr 7 Up-In this brief but well-researched overview, Kaminker gives legal facts about adoption and brings up many of the problems adolescent adoptees face: fear that their natural curiosity about their birth parents may hurt their adoptive parents' feelings, jealousy of non-adopted siblings, thoughtless remarks from friends and strangers, etc.
- Unbroken Ties Connection Continues After Adoption
- It is time to paint a broader, more detailed image of adoption. The brush strokes in this book are based on the authors fifteen-plus years of experience as an adoption social worker, working directly with hundreds of adopting families, birth families, and adoptees. In this book you will take a side-by-side walk with birth parents, families, and adoptees in their journey through the adoption process and how it impacted their lives.
- Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience
- "Important and powerful.[the author] is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents." --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
- Follow Your Heart
- When a young woman discovers she was adopted as an infant, she makes a bold decision to seek out and find her birth parents. Little does she realize how it will forever change her life. Follow Your Heart is an exercise in love and compassion, a must read for all who believe in the power of love, and the strength of family.