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Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
Compelling and honest, this memoir recounts the diffuse effects of a governmental policy that required the author’s adoptive parents to be informed of her Afro-American ancestry. Chronicling her personal search for cultural identity, this account also delves into indigenous studies, Australian history,...
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Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families: Building Secure New Lives
Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives helpful guidance on making evidence-based assessments and planning successful adoption support. Key features include: a discussion of the main themes of adoption and pointers for practice in relation to...
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The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine: A Guide for Physicians, Parents, and Providers
Since 1989, American families have adopted more than 230,000 children from other countries. Many of these children have lived in crowded conditions, sometimes with poor standards of hygiene, inadequate nutrition, and limited numbers of caregivers. Some suffer from endemic infectious diseases. Upon arrival,...
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The Dynamics of Adoption: Social and Personal Perspectives
This text documents experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process - adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and the professionals. It reflects on the feelings detailed in the personal accounts deepening the debate on loss and feeling of abandonment....
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Waiting for You: An Heirloom Adoption Journal for My Future Child
Because you already love a child you have never met... Share family photographs. Record personal history. Document the adoption process. FORMAT: Fill-in pages and journaling springboards with inclusive language to fit diverse adopting scenarios including single parent, alternative family or older child. Adopting couples can each fill out a journal of...
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