| Recommended Reading about Adoption
General Reading These books provide an orientation
to adoption, its meaning, the process, organizational procedures,
and information about children available for adoption. You
will find important information about adoption subsidy, legal
risk placement, adoptive parenting, and other issues.
| Adoption |
Jeanne Du Prau |
| Adoption and After |
Louise Raymond |
| The Adoption Advisor |
Joan McNamara |
| The Adoption Life Cycle |
Rosenberg |
| Adoption: Parenthood without Pregnancy |
Charlene Canape |
| Adoption Strategies |
Dr. Kenneth Kenney |
| The Adoption Resource Book |
Lois Gilman |
| Adoption Triangle |
Arthur Sorosky, Annette Garan and Ruben
Pannor |
| Adoption Without Fear |
Jim Grittter |
| And With the Gift Came Laughter |
Ann Kiemel Anderson |
| The Art of Adoption |
Linda Burgess |
| Being Adopted: Life Long Search for Self |
Brodzenski, Schechter, and Henig |
| Being Birthmother |
Kathleen Silber & Phyllis Speedlin |
| Different and Wonderful |
Dr. Darlene Powell Hopsen & Dr. Derek
S. Hopsen |
| How to Raise Adopted Children |
Schaffer and Lindstrom |
| Journey through Placement |
Vera Fahlberg |
| Open Adoption: A Caring Adoption |
Jeanne Warren Lindsay |
| The Open Adoption Experience |
Lois Ruskie Melina and Sharon Kaplan Rogia |
| Perspectives on a Grafted Tree |
Patricia Johnston |
| Raising Adopted Children |
Lois Melina |
| Making Sense of Adoption |
Lois Melina |
| Shared Fate |
H. David Kirk |
| Successful Adoption |
Jacqueline Plumez |
| You're Our Child: The Adoption Experience |
Smith and Miroff |
The Essential Adoption Handbook
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Alexander Petters |
| How to Adopt a Child |
C. Crain & J. Duffy |
Post-Adoption Support Reading
These books provide an orientation to adoption, its meaning,
the process, organizational procedures, and information about
children available for adoption. You will find important information
about adoption as a factor in the developmental lifecycle
of adopted children and their families.
| All Kinds of Families |
Norma Simon |
| Families are Different |
Nina Pellegrini |
| Beginnings: How Families Come to Be |
Virginia Kroll |
| A China Adoption Story: Mommy, Why Do
We Look Different? |
Frances M. Koh |
| Adoption |
Jeanne Du Prau |
| Adoption and After |
Louise Raymond |
| The Adoption Advisor |
Joan McNamara |
| The Adoption Lifecycle |
Rosenberg |
| Adoption Triangle |
Arthur Sorosky, Annette Garan and Ruben
Pannor |
| Being Adopted - Life Long Search for
Self |
Brodzenski, Schechter, and Henig |
| Brown Like Me |
Noelle Lamperti |
| Different and Wonderful |
Dr. Darlene Powell Hopsen & Dr. Derek
S. Hopsen |
| Dim Sum, Bagels and Grits: A Source Book
for Multicultural Families |
Myra Alperson |
| The Face in the Mirror:Teenagers and
Adoption |
Marion Crook |
| Filling in the Blanks: A Guided Look
at Growing Up Adopted |
Susan Gabel, M. Ed. |
| How It Feels to Be Adopted |
Jill KrementzHow to Raise Adopted Children
- Schaffer and Lindstrom |
| Journey Through Placement |
Vera Fahlberg |
| Loving Across the Color Line: A White
Adoptive Mother Learns About Race |
Sharon Rush |
| Open Adoption: A Caring Option |
Jeanne Warren Lindsay |
| The Open Adoption Experience |
Lois Ruskie Melina and Sharon Kaplan Rogia |
| Perspectives on a Grafted Tree |
Patricia Johnston |
| Raising Adopted Children |
Lois Melina |
| Real Parents, Real Children |
Holly Van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb |
| Making Sense of Adoption |
Lois Melina |
| Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother |
Jana Wolff |
| Shared Fate |
H. David Kirk |
| Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their
Adoptive Parents Knew |
Sherrie Eldridge |
| Wasn't Love Supposed to Be Enough? |
VanSlyck, Wristen, Dupre-Clare, Mague, and
Haggerty |
| Who am I? And Other Questions of Adopted
Teenagers |
Charlene Giannetti |
| Why Didn't She Keep Me? Answers to the
Question Every Adopted Child Asks |
Barbara Burlingham-Brown, MS |
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