Adoption BooksWhen Love is Not Enough by Nancy Thomas - A guide to parenting children with RAD. Attaching in Adoption by Deborah D. Gray - Practical tools for today's parents. Fields of the Fatherless by C. Thomas Davis - With compassion and insight, Davis shows you how to reach out to a special group of people who are most in need - and who the Bible reveals are most on God's heart. Starting now, you can know the kind of purpose and joy that comes when you work side by side with God in His favorite fieldsGod's heart for the orphan and the fatherless. Adopting the Hurting Child by Keck and Kupecky - Fewer and fewer families adopting today are bringing home a healthy newborn infant. Many adoptions now invlolve children who have suffered the effects of abuse or neglect in their birth families and carry complex issues with them into their adoptive families. Adopting the Hurt Child addresses the frustrations, heartache, and hope surrounding the adoptions of these special-needs kids. Loving the Unadoptable by Patricia Harris - Meet Cory, a young boy who was in foster care several years before he was adopted. He went from home to home, to the hospital and residential treatment, before going to the home of the author. This is a story of how love transcends all difficulties, how adoptive parents handled the behavior of their son, and how they never gave up. They realized how challenging, yet rewarding, adopting an older child can be. Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child by Patty Cogan Books for Younger Children: The Day We Met You by Phoebe Koehler We Wanted You by Liz Rosenberg A Blessing from Above by Patti Henderson Shaoey & Dot by MaryBeth & Steven Curtis Chapman (China) Mishka, An Adoption Tale by Adrienne Ehlert Bashista (Russia)
Books for Older Children: An American Face by Jan Czech My New Family by Pat Thomas Three Names of Me by Mary Cummings (China) We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo by Linda Walvoord Girard (Korea) When You Were Born in Korea by Brian Boyd When You Were Born in Vietnam When You Were Born in China Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent
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