Love Like No Other Stories from Adoptive Parents

Name: Love Like No Other Stories from Adoptive Parents
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ISBN: 9781594482151

ISBN-10: 1594482152

ISBN-13: 9781594482151

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Authors: Pamela Kruger, Jill Smolowe

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Drawn from personal experience, these stories offer vivid and beautifully rendered snapshots of the adoptive parenting experience. Featuring: Marcelle Clements, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Christina Frank, Jesse Green, Melissa Fay Greene, Doug Hood, Pamela Kruger, Jenifer Levin, Antoinette Martin, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Adam Pertman, Emily Prager, Amy Rackear, Bonnie Miller Rubin, Dan Savage, Bob Shacocchis, Jill Smolowe, Sheila Steinbeck, Joe Treen, and Jana Wolf.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 9/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction




Reflections on Birth Parents


She Is Among Us



To Search or Not to Search



Living with a Very Open Adoption



Two Daughters, Two Destinies




Encounters with the Unexpected


Post-Adoption Panic



Baby on Board-but Not Everyone Else



The Second Time Around



Color Her Becky: Grappling with Race



The First Thirteen



The Fallout from a Less-Than-Perfect Beginning




Variations on Family


Which Ones Are Yours?



The Day That Hallmark Forgot



Standing Out and Standing Up in the Crowd



Divorce, Adoption-Style



Keeping It All in the Family




Personal Transformations


Reluctant No More (Not That I Ever Was)



And Then Everything Changed



Across Two Cultures



The Orphan Myth



Special Needs



Acknowledgments


About the Contributors