Adoption

Who Is the Hurt Child?
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
by Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D., Regina M. Kupecky, LSW
Many adoptive children did not experience early childhood trauma, neglect, or abuse. In these cases, the issues they face are common to all children and are supplemented by issues related directly to adoption.

Helping Your Hurt Child Heal, Grow, and Develop
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
by Regina M. Kupecky, LSW, Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D.
In the six years since Adopting the Hurt Child was published, we have been asked repeatedly about writing another book. Of course, we were flattered, but the mere thought of the undertaking was daunting. Now we feel the time has come.

The Changing Face of Adoption
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
by Regina M. Kupecky, LSW, Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D.
The face of adoption continues to change. Gone are the days when the policies of social-service agencies forbade foster parents to get close to their foster children, and when nurturing was to be reserved for the yet unidentified adoptive family.

A Prayer Each Day
A Treasury of Adoption Miracles : True Stories of God's Presence Today
by Karen Kingsbury
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury continues her Miracles series with this collection of twelve true stories illustrating the presence of God in adoption. Brought Together by a Miracle. A Manhattan social worker receives a new case-a three-year-old girl

Hidden Losses
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
by Sherrie Eldridge
Row upon row of tombstones lined the lush lawns as I drove through the tall black iron gates toward my adoptive parents' graves. An elderly man filled a plastic pitcher at a spigot and the smell of freshly mowed grass filled the air.

A family, a fishing pole, a family
The Things I Want Most : The Extraordinary Story of a Boy's Journey to a Family of His Own
by Richard Miniter
This is the true story of a remarkable and profoundly emotionally disturbed boy who descended upon our woefully unprepared family in late summer of 1993. It is the story of his first year, of his progress, the changes he forced in the family

Chapter One
The Exact Same Moon : Fifty Acres and a Family
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Okay, you go in first, I say to Alex, the husband. He looks at me. I'm too shy, I say. He lowers his head, glares at me through eyes that say, As if. Ahem. I remind him that I wet my pants nearly every day in kindergarten, so terrified was I of joining

People Like Us
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
by Neely Tucker
The bureaucrat was not a happy man, and it didn't take long to understand that I was the source of his irritation. Richard Tambadini was a senior officer in Zimbabwe's Department of Immigration Control. In May 1997, in a drab office in a dreary government

Stories of Adoption
Born in Our Hearts
by Filis Casey
A heartwarming collection of true stories that weave a rich tapestry of the adoption experience from many different perspectives: birthmothers, adoptive parents and grandparents, and adopted children and adults.