Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited
THE STORY BEHIND THE FILM TWINSTERSOne of the Top Ten Facebook Stories of the decade When twenty-five-year-old South Korean adoptee and actress Samantha Futerman opened a Facebook message from a stranger named Anaïs Bordier, she had no idea that it would change her life forever… Adopted from South Korea as an infant, Sam grew up in New Jersey …
Isak and the Oranges: The Half-Orphans of HOA (Hebrew Orphan Asylum, NY)
Young and old readers alike are fascinated by stories of life in an orphanage. In a carefully researched book about orphans and half-orphans at the turn of the last century, Nancy Price Freedman weaves an eye-opening tale of institutional life, based on the experiences of her father’s siblings, who were “inmates” in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New …
Dear Adoptive Parents: Things You Need to Know Right Now – from an Adoptee
Adoption is how you came to be a family- not a parenting style. Be the parent you are meant to be- the parent your child needs you to be, today. Adoptee, author, speaker, blogger and mommy, Madeleine Melcher is a breath of fresh air in a climate of negativity. Melcher’s piece, What an Adoptee Wants You …
It was December 2006 when Yanna left St. Petersburg, Russia to spend a month with our family in the United States. It would be a great experience for us all but it would be over in just 32 days. For all we knew, the journey would end after that; Yanna would return to her orphanage and …
Adoption Is a Family Affair!: What Relatives and Friends Must Know, Revised Edition
A child is coming – whether you approve or not it’s time to get with the program! If someone you care about – a family member, co-worker, or close friend – has recently announced that their family will be growing through adoption, you may have questions. After all, unless you have personally experienced adoption, you may know …
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
A New York Times Notable Book “Casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system.” — NPR’s On Point Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking …
Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children’s happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children’s emotional development, and how …
We are living in one of the most stressful times in human history. This abundance of stress is impacting families and in many cases, manifesting itself in children with difficult and severe behaviors. Homes often turn into intense fighting grounds of power struggles and control battles parents find themselves in us against them scenarios with their children. Tension …
Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children. Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the …
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children
Building the Bonds of Attachment is the second edition of a critically and professionally acclaimed book for social workers, therapists, and parents who strive to assist children with reactive attachment disorder. This work is a composite case study of the developmental course of one child following years of abuse and neglect. Building the Bonds of Attachment focuses on …