Adoption og plejebørn: råd og vejledning

Five year-old Rosa suspects that something is wrong with her mama. What she discovers brings immense joy and sadness to her tiny family. Mama is pregnant, but she cannot keep the baby. Instead, she's arranging an open adoption. Join Rosa as she navigates her mother's grief, meets the family who will adopt her baby brother, and learns ways to cope with her own feelings of loss. Like so many birth siblings, Rosa embarks on a quest to accept that, even though she won't live with her brother, she will always be, Sam's Sister. "As a therapist who works with adopted children and teens, Sam's Sister is one of the best books for adopted kids available today... the children and teens who read it with me give Sam's Sister two thumbs up for any child involved in any way in an adoption." - Judy Stigger, LCSW Adoption counselor and educator, Board President of JCICS, Advisory Board of Adoptive Families Magazine "Finally, a book that acknowledges birth siblings to adopted children. Even if your child doesn't know their birth family, this story delivers a terrifically positive message about the way adopted children are valued by BOTH of their families. Great job! Four stars." - Beth Hall, Co-Executive Director, Pact: An Adoption Alliance & Co-author, Inside Transracial Adoption

They thought it was about time to have a kid. No big deal. Until it was. Then their lives went from fooling around to hormone shots, test tubes, embarrassing doctor visits, and more. But there's no sad, mopey story here. Tom LaMarr handles the journey to fatherhood like he handles the rest of life - with enough humor to make even the most stoic wanna-be-dad laugh with recognition. Follow this funny father on his quest to become the one thing that eluded him: becoming the someone she calls "Daddy."

"An adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into-- and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same." --

After discovering that her son's friend, Ryan, is on the search for his birthparents, Lynn Assimacopoulos decides to use her skills as a genealogical hobbyist to find them. Delving through phone books, sending letters, and searching everything from the local library to the National Archives, Lynn is defeated by the lack of information she has to go on. However, a random search for Ryan's birthmother's name in an internet search engine yields a photograph of a family. Could this be the correct person? If so, will she even want to revisit her past and get to know Ryan?About the AuthorLynn Assimacopoulos is a retired healthcare worker. Although she wrote for professional nursing journals in her adult life, she has been writing poetry and short stories since she was eight years old. When she is not writing or reading, she enjoys fossil hunting and archeology.

As parents to four children, there were always extra children visiting our house while our children were growing up. Our house was filled with love and compassion. As the children grew and became adults, I missed the sound of laughter and enthusiasm in the house. After reading an article in the paper about a foster care agency petitioning for help, I knew that Aaron and I could fill that need. The year was 1994. Over a twenty-five-year period, more than 100 children graced our homes. This compilation shares some of their stories; the success stories and even the challenges. We are only one of thousands of families who saw a need and decided to help. But the fight is far from over. We need to work on our foster care programs by educating the public about foster care, strengthen the families of origin, help the children to function in foster care without drugging them with medication to control them. More support is needed for case workers and managers, for they have a heavy workloads. We need to help the children to build positive connections before they age out. We are all in this together for these children will one day be adults who are the future of our country. Remember, there is always room for one more.

**Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award - Gold Medal Winner,Religion/Spirituality/Instruction** Independent PressAward - Distinguished Favorite,Christian"My God, My God, why haveyou forsaken me?"Have you ever wonderedwhere God is? How can this be happening? What did I do to deserve this? Haveyour circumstances led you to question your faith? Does God care? Does he evenexist?Thoughts flooded my head from our traumatic failedadoption. “Lord, where were you this time? Is this how our seven-year-longjourney to have children ends? Are we being punished? Are we cursed? Thisadoption seemed so right. I thought I was ready. I really thought I could helpthese kids. After all, I started life as an Orphan.”My corebeliefs had been shaken. To make sense of what just happened, I went back andexamined my own life. So many times, the odds were heavily stacked against me,life, and death situations. Yet, somehow, someway, God always showedup.From orphan to carpenter and beyond, the pages of thisbook are my life stories. But the book is not about me or my story. It’s aboutGod’s. As you read these true stories of my life like parables, may they be atestament that God is present and active in your life, that he loves you andhas a plan to give you hope and a future.

A day of skiing in the Colorado Rockies changed Kristi Wilkinson's life forever. Little did she know that her journey to Transylvania Romania would change the life of a child forever, too. In the 1990s, Kristi traveled as a medical volunteer across the globe to China, Kazakhstan, and Brazil, but she was drawn to the orphans in Romania. After a decision to live there and work as a physical therapist with the orphans, one toddler stole her heart. Miracles unfolded that allowed her to do the impossible-to bring that toddler home. Weaved throughout this story are messages from this child with wisdom and insight beyond his years that will bring anyone straight to the feet of their Creator.

Judy Fambrough-Billingsley bares her soul and describes the transformation experienced in her quest to find both birth parents after being abandoned to live in a kinderheim until adopted. From a childhood in Germany shortly after the war to adulthood in America, Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Love, Forgiveness, and Healing recount the author's inspirational odyssey, as she uncovers family secrets, a public rejection, and the discovery of her Ashkenazi Jewish grandmother who died in the Nazi Concentration camp during World War II. She gives a captivating, true account of the emotional and psychological effects of being biracial, abandoned, and overcoming grief and loss writing a thought-provoking chapter on forgiveness and healing. This easy-to-read book concludes with a guide to researching your own ancestry or finding and reconnecting with a person who has been missing from your life.

Motherhood is hard enough, but add in ADHD, a pandemic, and a truckload of uncertainty, and you're gonna need a serious sense of humor! Grab a coffee and take a break with this uplifting book about stuck-at-home mothering.This humorous autobiography follows a mom from the day the first schools in the U.S. shut down for COVID-19 until the kids finally hopped back on the bus over a year later. You will laugh along with sourdough failures, middle-of-the-night mayhem, and wearing fuzzy slippers to inappropriate places.This book is for you if you'reparenting teens who think they're adults orparenting elementary kids who think they're teens.dealing with one of the "D's" like ADHD, ASD, ODD or RAD ordealing with rambunctious or plentiful kids!putting your routines back together after Covid disruptions orputting your house back together after having all the people home, all the time.building your family through adoption orbuilding your family through childbirth.Along for the rollercoaster ride of the Covid-19 Pandemic were Krista's now-working-at-home husband, her teen son, her precocious 3rd grade daughter, and their aging Labradoodle. Friends and family make guest appearances in this witty, at times poignant, account of the slowest emergency in history.You'll delight in this relatable mom's story that reads like an entertaining journal, as if Bridget Jones' baby was in grade school and had an older brother. She knows what it's like to parent kids with big emotions and extra needs, and to get the side-eye at playgrounds.Fans of Kristina Kuzmi¿ and #IMOMSOHARD will love this good-humored, cheeky memoir. Buy this book for yourself, or as a gift for another mom, to laugh your way through the new year.

In 1997 foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe. After witnessing the devastating consequences of AIDS and economic disaster on the country's children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage where a critically ill infant, abandoned in a field on the day she was born, was trusted to their care. Within weeks, Chipo, the baby girl whose name means "gift,” would come to mean everything to them. Their decision to adopt her, however, would challenge an unspoken social norm: that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo's true story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love—and dogged determination—can sometimes achieve.

Janis Cooke Newman first saw the baby who would become her son on a videotape. He was 10 months old and naked, lying on a metal changing table while a woman in a white lab coat and a babushka tried to make him smile for the camera.Four months later, the Newmans traveled to Moscow to get their son. Russia was facing its first democratic election, and the front-runner was an anti-American Communist who they feared would block adoptions.For nearly a month, the Newmans spent every day at the orphanage with the child they'd named Alex, waiting for his adoption to be approved. As Russia struggled with internal conflict, the metro line they used was bombed, and another night, the man who was to sign their papers was injured in a car-bombing.Finally, when the Newmans had begun to consider kidnapping, their adoption coordinator, through the fog of a hangover, made the call: Alex was theirs.Written with a keen sense of humor, The Russian Word for Snow is a clear-eyed look at the experience of making a family through adoption.

The first guide of its kind, covering all stages of the adoption processAdopting on Your Own addresses the questions and concerns of prospective single parents. Lee Varon, a practicing therapist specializing in adoption counseling and the single mother of two adopted children, helps readers make an evenhanded assessment of whether adoption is right for them, then leads them through the different stages of arranging and financing the adoption. She weighs the advantages of open versus closed and international versus domestic adoption for the single parent, and demystifies potentially daunting steps such as choosing an agency and preparing for the home study.Adopting on Your Own also offers up-to-date information on the latest developments in interracial adoption policy, the legal rights of gays and lesbians to adopt, and the evolving attitudes of agencies and social workers toward single-parent adoptions. Throughout the book, Varon draws on personal anecdotes and the experiences of her clients to offer honest, insightful advice on every step of the adoption process.

Now in its third edition, this widely acclaimed resource provides an honest and detailed guide for adoptees and their birthparents. It offers a wealth of ideas, advice, resources, and encouragement to anyone considering embarking on his or her own journey of discovery. Drawing from personal experience as well as from extensive research, author Jayne Askin presents creative ways to overcome obstacles and attack problems that occur during the search process.

Foreign adoption is an often tricky, sometimes treacherous venture that is steadily gaining in popularity. Myra Alperson realizes that families pursuing this avenue of adoption need all the help they can get-and she fits it all into this handy guide.