Adoption Experience Families Who Give Children a Second Chance

Name: Adoption Experience Families Who Give Children a Second Chance
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ISBN: 9781853027833

ISBN-10: 1853027839

ISBN-13: 9781853027833

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ann Morris

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This text offers a look at some real life stories of adopters which takes the reader through every stage of the adoption process starting with the moment when they decide that adoption is right to the stories of children who have been adopted.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

ANN MORRIS is Associate Director of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. HENRIETTA AMBROSE grew up in North Webster, served as President of the Webster Groves Historical Society, and is the first black person elected to the Webster Groves City Council. JOHN NAGEL teaches photography at St. Louis Community College at Meramec.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



You Want to Adopt



First Meetings, First Months, Falling in Love



Adopting Babies and Toddlers



Adopting Schoolchildren



Taking on an Adolescent



Adopting a Child with a Physical or Learning Disability



Adopting an Emotionally, Physically or Sexually Abused Child



Unusual Adopters for Unusual Children: Single Parents, Unmarried and Gay Couples, and Adoption over Birth by Choice



Adoption and Race



Openness in Adoption



Adopted but Unattached



The Nightmare: When an Adoption Breaks Down



Telling, Talking and the Need to Know More



Tracing



The Birth Mother's Story



The Adoptee's Story



Well-Known Adopters and Adoptees, Past and Present



Adoption: A Legal Outline, by Richard White



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