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Author: Marcy Bursac Publisher: ISBN: 9781098335373 Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
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120,000 U.S. children who are ready to be adopted are hoping you'll pick up this book. Have you ever thought you'd adopt a child(ren), but finding out it costs thousands of dollars kicked that idea to the curb? Most people believe that all children in foster care return to their biological families. Many do not know that 50% of children in foster care need an adoptive family and that adopting children through foster care costs $0 - $2,500. Countless times friends and friends of friends have reached out asking about foster care adoption and how we adopted our children through foster care. My intent is to help you evaluate your own heart and simplify the process of foster care adoption so you can help a child who is hoping you will find them. While I cannot promise you that the process will be easy, I can tell you that going down this path has been completely worth it for my family.
Author: Marcy Bursac Publisher: ISBN: 9781098335373 Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
120,000 U.S. children who are ready to be adopted are hoping you'll pick up this book. Have you ever thought you'd adopt a child(ren), but finding out it costs thousands of dollars kicked that idea to the curb? Most people believe that all children in foster care return to their biological families. Many do not know that 50% of children in foster care need an adoptive family and that adopting children through foster care costs $0 - $2,500. Countless times friends and friends of friends have reached out asking about foster care adoption and how we adopted our children through foster care. My intent is to help you evaluate your own heart and simplify the process of foster care adoption so you can help a child who is hoping you will find them. While I cannot promise you that the process will be easy, I can tell you that going down this path has been completely worth it for my family.
Author: Marcy Bursac Publisher: ISBN: 9781667840727 Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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Some children need a forever family. Some forever families adopt one child. Some forever families adopt a group of children. "Are You a Forever Family?" is written by adoptive mom and podcast host Marcy Bursac. Dive into the pages of this inspiring tale and enjoy cheerful pictures that celebrate what it means to be an adoptive family. You'll find this book is not only a celebration, but an invitation for readers to consider becoming a forever family for the thousands of children waiting in the US foster care system. This heartwarming book delivers the hope-filled message that forever families are all around us, and any type of family can become one. So, it's worth asking yourself: Could you be a forever family? In the United States, populating our neighborhoods, communities, and schools are 115,000 children waiting for a forever family. With a financial cost of just $0 - $2,500 per child, adopting a child or sibling group through the foster care system is more affordable than most would think. Within the pages of this book are the facts and statistics those who are thinking about adopting will need to make their final decision. The visual nature of the book also aids those who are curious about the process of parenthood, and topics such as fertility, raising multiple children at once, and dealing with the US foster care system are addressed. Marcy Bursac continues to write meaningful and passionate companion books for those who need them, so what are you waiting for? Now is your chance to not only change your life, but the life of a child or sibling group. To learn more about becoming a forever family for children in the United States visit forgottenadoptionoption.com.
Author: Rosanne LeBaige Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing ISBN: 9781637697887 Category : Languages : en Pages : 182
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Adoption is an act of love to be celebrated, not one to be hidden in shame. "When we share how adoption has touched our lives, we shine light on the need for more forever families. I'm hopeful Rosanne's book will help readers take the next step in pursuing adoption." - Marcy Bursac Adoptive mom, podcast host, and author of The Forgotten Adoption Option Laugh, cry, reflect, and rejoice through these raw and moving stories of adoption as told by adopted children, adoptive parents, birth parents, and birth families. Each story offers enlightening perspectives from those touched by adoption, evoking a myriad of emotions from shame and grief to relief and gratitude. Their journeys are heartbreaking yet inspiring, ultimately leaving us with hope and assurance in God's perfect timing.
Author: Cheri Register Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451602456 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 396
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The question “Are those kids yours?” has a familiar ring to parents who have adopted children from South Korea, India, Colombia, the Philippines, and other countries. As natural and normal as it feels to them to be together, such families are often asked to explain their obvious difference. In rich personal stories drawn from her own experience as the mother of two Korean-born daughters and from interviews with other parents and with adopted children from six to thirty, Cheri Register both affirms the normality of internationally adoptive families and highlights the special challenges they do indeed face. The book addresses many central questions about international adoption: why children are in need of adoption outside the country of their birth, why parents choose to adopt from other countries, and how parents and children of very different origins become a “real” family. International adoption is a controversial matter in countries from which children are coming to the United States, but adoptive families have had little voice as yet in the debate. With honest, thoughtful analysis honed by personal experience, Register addresses the ethical issues inevitably raised by adoption across lines of culture, race, and social class: Are parents in the wealthier nations entitled to raise children left homeless in other parts of the world by poverty or social stigma? Is placement in another country an appropriate solution for children whose parents cannot raise them? Insightful, comprehensive, and eloquent, Are Those Kids Yours? is a unique resource for parents raising internationally adopted children and for those who are contemplating intercountry adoption as well as for the children as they grow up, their extended families and friends, and adoption and mental health professionals.
Author: Gabrielle Glaser Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735224692 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 354
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A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. “[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these single women are gonna raise more children.” No, their hope is that those children will be placed for adoption. But is that the reality? I doubt it.’”[says Glaser]” -Mother Jones During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, where social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children. The identities of many who were adopted or who surrendered a child in the postwar decades are still locked in sealed files. Gabrielle Glaser dramatically illustrates in Margaret and David’s tale--one they share with millions of Americans—a story of loss, love, and the search for identity.
Author: Anne Moody Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538108038 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 267
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The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators in the U.S., ethical concerns related to international adoption, and the role money inevitably plays in the foster care and adoption systems. Special attention is given to the practice of “baby brokering” and the accompanying exorbitant finder’s fees and financial incentives encouraging birth mothers to relinquish (or pretend that they are planning to relinquish) their babies that permeate much of U.S. infant adoption today. The Children Money Can Buy illuminates the worlds of foster care and adoption through the personal stories Moody witnessed and experienced in her many years working in the foster care and adoption systems. These compelling stories about real people and situations illustrate larger life lessons about the way our society values—and fails to value—parents and children. They explore the root of ethical problems which are not only financially driven but reflect society’s basic belief that some children are more valuable than others. Finally, Moody makes a plea for change and gives suggestions about how the foster care and adoption systems could work together for the benefit of children and families.
Author: Nychol Lyna Publisher: ISBN: 9781648015076 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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"Forgotten Baby" is a children's book for readers aged 8 and up, following the journey of a young 16-year-old girl named Mytaé dealing with the hardships of losing her mother at a young age and entering foster care. This modern-day book series provides true-to-life insight into the struggles that children and teenagers face while growing up without their biological parents.
Author: Cathy Glass Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007486782 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 245
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A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please Don’t Take My Baby, coming out on April 25th.
Author: Marcy Bursac
Author: Marcy Bursac
Author: Marcy Bursac
Author: Marcy Bursac
Author: Rosanne LeBaige
Author: Cheri Register
Author: Gabrielle Glaser
Author: Anne Moody
Author: Sarah Bolm
Author: Nychol Lyna
Author: Cathy Glass