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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In You Should Be Grateful, Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging-- Provided by publisher.
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At the age of four, because of the Easter bombings in May 1941, we were bombed out of our beautiful home and evacuated to a farm thirty miles north of Belfast, Northern Ireland. A year or so later, we returned and lived in a very deprived area in the city. My father, an old soldier, was an alcoholic who smoked in the region of a thousand cigarettes a week, so, the cupboards were bare and family life broke down. My mother had little or no money for...
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All My Children actress Jill Larson moved mountains as a single mother to adopt her daughter from China. George Fadok, a former Navy commander, grappled with "changing the rules" eighteen years after placing his daughter in a closed adoption. Angela Paxton, Texas state senator and an adoptee, never thought she would ever meet her birthmom, but when she did, it changed her life.
Embarking on an adoption journey can be daunting, but now you are not...
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A Child's Journey from Foster Care to Adoption
My life tells the parable of a child who finds the ultimate adoption through being fostered. At the tender age of five, I was taken from the custody of my natural parents and turned over as a ward of the state. After years of searching for my identity, I was able to find it through my beautiful foster mother Jimmie. She showed me the way to an adoption that supersedes natural logic. Many that travel...
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Foster parenting is both a rewarding and a challenging job, a lifestyle of continuous learning and new experiences, and The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom will be there to support you as you, in turn, support your foster children.
Filled with 365 days' worth of daily tips, inspirational quotes, and motivational short stories from a foster care expert, this book is a must-read for modern child-welfare advocates, adoptive parents, and foster parents....
8) See No Color
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English
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Being a biracial girl adopted by a white family didn't used to bother Alex. All that mattered was being her father's baseball star-until that status slips. Now she's questioning her identity. Black or white-where does she fit in?
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Pregnant and alone, I felt abortion was my only option. When I couldn't bring myself to go through with the abortion, I set out on a lifetime's journey as a Jewish birth mother. Twenty-plus years later, I not only speak to other women about being a Jewish Birthmother and my experience with adoption, but I also discuss my fight through the life in which I have lived.
I ran from telling my story because of the shame - ashamed of myself and afraid...
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Español
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El ser humano es un ser social por excelencia. Una de las formas en las que se manifiesta esta dimensión se da cuando un hombre y una mujer deciden unir sus vidas en matrimonio y uno de sus fines es la procreación de los hijos, quienes son el fruto del amor de esos padres. Esta unión es la base que constituye la primera comunidad a la que se asocian tareas, propósitos y funciones. Por diversas circunstancias de la vida actual, muchos matrimonios...
11) Broken & Alone
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Jennifer has dreams of changing the system she grew up in. The system that left her feeling alone and inadequate. Now, Jennifer is aging out of the orphanage. The only home she can remember. Jennifer craves for her family the mom and dad she dreamed she had. Armed with a bus ticket and an old worn picture Jennifer leaves the orphanage with questions and hopes of finding her family. Will Jennifer find her parents? Will it be like she always dreamed?...
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Don't you wish children really did come with instructions? Caregivers of children with attachment difficulties, who have experienced childhood trauma, often don't know that they need to parent differently to meet their child's specific needs and help them to start making sense of the world. Seeing the Unseen is a one-stop-shop for families who are besieged.
Learn the founding principles of attachment and trauma theory.
Understand why it's important...
14) Susie Sunshine
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Susie Sunshine came into this world like a lightning bolt. She is a small-town girl who had many adventures with her childhood friends. Take a trip down their memory lane with Julianna, Susie, Angelique, Shelly, and Celina. See how they evolve as young women. See how Jewels became a Christian and read her testimony. This is a fictional book but with real-life events.
15) You Are Me
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If you need hope, you need to read this book. You Are Me is a fascinating, heartening true story of one person's journey from becoming crippled with amnesia by a car accident to recovering and becoming a parent to children who each needed a second chance at life.
Our protagonist had the life he had always dreamed of-a great job, a partner, a nice home, and a great set of friends-a life many people dream of. At twenty-seven, a car accident left him...
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From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams' keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
Here you will find sorrow and joy inextricably linked in a captivating verse that is ultimately a celebration...
17) According to Me
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Step inside the world of a woman who has been on a journey before she even knew it started, from the day she was born, July 7, 1968, in Florida.
She began her life in one state, with one path defined by people she would not even know until she was an adult and some she would never know at all. That path would take her out of that state, and that period throughout childhood, some pitfalls, and the huge life-changing reveal that would collapse her...
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No No Nola Spicolla is a book about a baby goat or "kid" who must live with a foster family for a period as her mother is unable to care for her. This mirrors the need for foster care in human children due to child abuse, neglect, domestic violence, or addiction. The author wants children to know that out of home placement is never the child's fault and there are loving families that can help bridge the gap from dysfunction to the collective goal...
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Adoption Joys: They Expected a Miracle gives God's plan for unplanned pregnancies as it shares encouraging true stories of the joys adoptive couples have found in adoption. Young, unmarried, single women who have found themselves in an unplanned pregnancy are also encouraged with the truth that these couples love them unconditionally over all the years to come. The baby is welcomed, of course, but not more so than the birth mom. The adoptive couples...
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"First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes the baby in the baby carriage." It was time this old nursery rhyme got an update. Struggling with infertility opened Jaimie's eyes to another world where families were made in many ways.
First there was me. Then there was the journey-to you.
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