Addition by Adoption: Kids, Causes & 140 Characters
ISBN: 9781451581386 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love, laughter and lunacy in 140 characters. A work-at-home dad turns to Twitter to share updates about kids, causes and life. It's a curated selection of bizarre quotes, funny stories and temper tantrums. Woven between potty-training woes and breakfast time songs is a family growing through adoption and learning how to change the world, one status update at a time. You'll find humor, parental commiseration and life-changing wonder mixed into a quick and compelling read. A portion of the proceeds from this book benefit charity: water.
Love, laughter and lunacy in 140 characters. A work-at-home dad turns to Twitter to share updates about kids, causes and life. It's a curated selectio...
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46,15 zł |
My Name is Lee: A personal reflection of an adopted Korean and his mother
ISBN: 9781450550352 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At least once in life, you will ask your parents about how you came into this world, what happened the day you were born, how the day looked like, how your parents went to the hospital, how you looked like at that moment... There are so many things you may wonder about the time you came into the world. I wanted to ask these precious questions, but no one knew. The only thing I knew was that I was abandoned at a police station in Seoul, Korea and put into adoption. For my eighteenth birthday my mother presented me with a diary she kept since the life-long decision was made to adopt a child....
At least once in life, you will ask your parents about how you came into this world, what happened the day you were born, how the day looked like, how...
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60,01 zł |
MORE ADOPTION CONVERSATIONS
ISBN: 9781905664962 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Outlining a communication model developed specifically for adoption and foster children, this book teaches parents how to recognise and deal with child adoption-related grief.
Outlining a communication model developed specifically for adoption and foster children, this book teaches parents how to recognise and deal with chil...
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66,10 zł |
Reaching Out: The Guide To Writing A Terrific Dear Birthmother Letter
ISBN: 9780971619821 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The comprehensive guide to creating a Dear Birthmother letter that genuinely expresses who you are. Writing tips, examples, and the insight of leading adoption professionals have made this book both the accepted standard reference within the adoption community and the beginning of thousands of happy families.
The comprehensive guide to creating a Dear Birthmother letter that genuinely expresses who you are. Writing tips, examples, and the insight of leading...
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82,92 zł |
Adoption For Singles Second Edition: Everything You Need to Know to Decide If Parenthood is For You
ISBN: 9781453696637 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ADOPTION FOR SINGLES Second Edition is the first of a series of Singleandsatisfied.com books. It was written to walk single men and women through the process of adoption, whether domestic - private adoption of newborns, or children in foster care - or international. Single adults are now permitted to adopt in all 50 states, and with 129,000 waiting children in the foster care system, and an estimated 5 million orphans in Ethiopia alone, single parents couldn't be more needed. Read about: * Are you emotionally ready? What does it take to be a parent? * How much does it cost? (Hint: it can be...
ADOPTION FOR SINGLES Second Edition is the first of a series of Singleandsatisfied.com books. It was written to walk single men and women through the ...
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138,36 zł |
Attachment Tales Resolved
ISBN: 9781453547274 / Angielski / Twarda / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,83 zł |
Born and Raised: An American Story of Adoption
ISBN: 9781453559888 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,65 zł |
Silent Embrace: Perspectives on Birth and Adoption
ISBN: 9780980208160 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Birth mothers are often the forgotten or ignored part of the adoption triad. This collection of literary essays seeks to correct the imbalance by publishing personal stories by birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and adoptees. The stories cover a range of topics about adoption, open adoption, birth parent connections, and unification with children after closed adoption, focusing on the relationship with birth mothers. An anthology of essays by, for, and about birth parents.
Birth mothers are often the forgotten or ignored part of the adoption triad. This collection of literary essays seeks to correct the imbalance by publ...
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70,39 zł |
Born and Raised: An American Story of Adoption
ISBN: 9781453559895 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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157,01 zł |
Waiting for the Fruit to Ripen: One Adoptive Family's Experience With Beginning to Heal the Invisible Wounds of RAD and PTSD
ISBN: 9780692534977 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two little boys are living with their grandfather. They are neglected. They are abused. Their mother and father? Incarcerated. The boys are adopted into a loving family. Everyone lives happily ever after... Not quite. Not yet, anyway. The boys' traumatic memories and attachment problems were not left behind when hey began life with their forever family. These problems, hidden at first, became overwhelming very quickly. Emotional turmoil spread to the adoptive mother too. Parenting these extremely troubled children would prove to be a nearly impossible task. The healing begins, but not before...
Two little boys are living with their grandfather. They are neglected. They are abused. Their mother and father? Incarcerated. The boys are adopted in...
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60,01 zł |
Attachment Tales Resolved
ISBN: 9781453547267 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,72 zł |
The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System
ISBN: 9780892553778 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are more than 450,000 children living in foster care. The Heart Knows Something Different collects over three dozen personal narratives by young writers, ages 15 to 20, and provides an insider's account of growing up in "the system." It takes us into a world largely hidden from public view, and attests to the mix of pain and fear, and sometimes hope, and sometimes even happiness that the foster care experience involves.
There are more than 450,000 children living in foster care. The Heart Knows Something Different collects over three dozen personal narratives by young...
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153,98 zł |
Somewhere Out There: My Experience of Adoption and Search for Understanding
ISBN: 9780981490359 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Licensed Professional Counselor provides insight into the psychological impact of growing up adopted and eventually searching for her birth parents.
A Licensed Professional Counselor provides insight into the psychological impact of growing up adopted and eventually searching for her birth parents.
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74,57 zł |
Not Remembered Never Forgotten
ISBN: 9781419692581 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I am Robert, but once I had another name. As an infant I was held and loved by two women, one who would give me up, and another who raised me and loved me more than life itself. I suppose I should consider myself blessed to have been loved by two mothers when most of us get only one, and some none." Who am I, where did I come from? Why do I feel lost, incomplete, and isolated? These questions haunted my for my entire life growing stronger as time passed by. I finally chose to find my answers and this is my story. It's about my methodology, how it changed me, and who I became at its final...
"I am Robert, but once I had another name. As an infant I was held and loved by two women, one who would give me up, and another who raised me and lov...
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69,25 zł |
The Journey of Adoption
ISBN: 9781453806524 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Journey Of Adoption is our family's journey from a small community in northwestern Minnesota to the mountains of Guatemala. This story unfolds the uniqueness of beginning with one child, giving birth to twins, and culminating in the addition of a sibling group of three older children from an orphanage in Guatemala. The book presents both our perspectives as parents and our children's. The children's contributions of original chapters, artwork, and poetry make this a one-of-a-kind inspirational story for all ages. The cover design is an original acrylic painting by Jenna, entitled, A...
The Journey Of Adoption is our family's journey from a small community in northwestern Minnesota to the mountains of Guatemala. This story unfolds the...
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45,97 zł |
Making Families Through Adoption
ISBN: 9781412998000 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. Adoption allows a window onto discussions of what constitute family or kin, the role of biological connectedness, oversight of parenting practices by the state, and the role of race, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic class in the building of families. The book focuses primarily on adoption practices in the United States but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context. While...
This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. Adoption allows a window onto...
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181,15 zł |
The Moratorium of Anya
ISBN: 9780983320326 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,22 zł |
What you need to know BEFORE you adopt from a foreign country
ISBN: 9781456592134 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guide for the prospective parent considering adoption of a child from a foreign country. Discussion of Reactive Attachment Disorder with treatment options.
Guide for the prospective parent considering adoption of a child from a foreign country. Discussion of Reactive Attachment Disorder with treatment opt...
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69,25 zł |
The Adoption Constellation: New Ways of Thinking About and Practicing Adoption
ISBN: 9781452886909 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clinical psychologist, Michael Grand, brings a compassionate understanding to all members of the adoption constellation. Drawing upon a lifetime of personal experience, research and clinical practice, he challenges conventional ways of thinking about adoption. The limitations of attachment theory as an explanation of adoption outcome are presented. In its place, he suggests a narrative understanding of adoption. Core themes of identity, grief, mattering and trust, permeate these narratives and shape the experience of members of the constellation. As a passionate advocate for openness, Grand...
Clinical psychologist, Michael Grand, brings a compassionate understanding to all members of the adoption constellation. Drawing upon a lifetime of pe...
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82,92 zł |
In White America: Interracial Children and Adoption
ISBN: 9781450241410 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jessica Keebler, director of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions in 1955, faces an almost insurmountable crisis. There's a logjam of unadoptable babies and a severe lack of adequate foster homes for these children. The crux of this issues rests with a statute in California's adoption law stating ..". an interracial child is a non-white and may be given only to a Negro family." Since Negro family applications to adopt are as rare as rain in the Mojave desert, the backlog of interracial babies threatens the structure of Keebler's department and her mental health. When Paul and Anne...
Jessica Keebler, director of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions in 1955, faces an almost insurmountable crisis. There's a logjam of unadoptabl...
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118,57 zł |