Ce livre important et émouvant donne la voix à trente-huit personnes adoptées de différents âges et d’origines diverses qui résident sur l’ensemble du territoire québécois.
La baisse du nombre d'enfants adoptables dans les pays développés et l'augmentation du nombre des demandes expliquent que désormais les deux tiers des adoptions soient internationales.
A moving memoir about finding and adopting a son from the foster care system with Down syndrome and realizing that life is best lived by expecting the unplanned.
The darkly compelling and unputdownable crime thriller from the UK Top 50 bestseller John Nicholl'A dark, gritty, and compulsive read' Daily ExpressNineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the hospital once again.
Instructions Not Supplied is the account of one family's experience in adopting three children, each of whom turned out to have special needs, and the challenges they have faced along the way.
This is the go-to guide for practitioners, parents and carers who want to expand their understanding and skills for therapeutic parenting - a deeply nurturing parenting style particularly effective for children who have experienced trauma or adversity.
All families of children affected by trauma are on a journey, and this book will help to guide you and your family on your journey from trauma to trust.
Marshalling her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on non-consensual, confidential adoption in Israel, Mass describes legal proceedings following the Israeli state petition that declares children eligible for adoption because of alleged parental incapability, and explores the politics of state intervention in the parent/child relationship.
Written for busy foster carers and adoptive parents, this book provides a concise introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and how to support a child with a diagnosis.
Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma.
Adult adoptee and family therapist Katie Naftzger shares her personal and professional wisdom in this guide to help adoptive parents remain a calm parental influence in the midst of stormy and erratic teen behavior.
From Gypsy to Jersey, chronicles how my parents came to adopt me from Romania and how, all these years later, I followed the trail to my birth mother and made the journey back to Romania to connect with my Roma (Gypsy) family and roots.
The book You May Not Be Who You Think You Are, is a compelling, hard-fought, masterful, real-life account of one man's journey of dogged determination to discover his once concealed bloodline.
This is the inspiring story of how one mother and her family had a positive impact on more than four hundred children over their twenty-five years of fostering.