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  • Heartlines

    The Year I Met My Other Mother

    by Susannah McFarlane, Robin Leuba ...
    This is what happened the year I met my other mother.In 1965, Robin, unmarried and pregnant, comes to Melbourne to give birth and give her baby up for adoption, then returns to Perth to resume her life having never seen her baby. After 10 days alone, the baby, is taken home, named Susannah, and made part of a wonderful family that loves her. The adoption laws at the time guarantee that there can ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • Damaged

    The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child

    by Cathy Glass ...
    The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller.At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive and extremely challenging. Five carers in four months have been unable to cope, but there is one last hope: Cathy Glass…As Jodie begins to trust Cathy and make progress, shocking details about her past come to light. No one had noticed the glaring signs of abuse by those who were supposed to love her most.One ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time

    The Fate of Romance over Time

    by Stephen A. Mitchell ...
    "A beautiful and brilliant reexamination of love and its perils."—Barbara Fisher, Boston GlobeCommon wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships—it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk management. Mitchell shows that love can endure, if ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Wuhu Diary

    On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

    by Emily Prager ...
    In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughter–now a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • How It Feels to Be Adopted

    by Jill Krementz ...
    In these wonderfully straightforward accounts of what it means to children to be adopted, nineteen boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years old—and from every social background—confide their feelings about this crucial fact of their lives. It is deeply affecting to listen to these children as they reveal their questions, frustrations, difficulties, and joys with an honesty that is immediate, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • I Love You from the Edges

    Lessons from Raising Grandchildren

    by Karen Best Wright ...
    What Readers are SayingAn amazing captivating story.Itgivesgrandparents raising kids the comfort of knowing, youare not alone.-Bill Trammell, a single grandfather from Wisconsin, raising his adopted grandson.Karen is honest and vulnerable and takes even the worst of what happened and makes something beautiful out of it. A compelling story, from someone whos been there!-Laura Montan Bailey, LMFT, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Life Story Books for Adopted Children

    A Family Friendly Approach

    by Joy Rees ...
    Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life.   This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive family. Joy Rees' ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Families in Today's World

    A Comparative Approach

    by David Cheal ...
    An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Babies for Sale?

    Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction

    Edited by Miranda Davies ...
    Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

    Cultural Guidance for Professionals

    Edited by Rowena Fong, Ruth McRoy ...
    With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Critical Kinship Studies

    Edited by Charlotte Kroløkke, Lene Myong, Stine Willum Adrian, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen ...
    Series series Rowman and Littlefield International – Intersections
    In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called “repatriation of anthropology” and by the influence of feminist studies, queer studies, adoption studies, and science and technology studies. These interdisciplinary approaches have been further developed by increases in infertility, reproductive travel, and the emergence of critical movements among ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Call Me Ella

    by Joan E. Kaufman ...
    More than just one woman's search for information about the biological mother she believed had died in childbirth, this book explores the mind and feelings of an adopted child. Call Me Ella is a heartwarming and uplifting story about a young girl who considered her adoptive parents her "real parents," yet needed to know more. She needed to know her roots. Her heritage. With a burning desire to ... Read more

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