Adoption Resources
Our adoption resources are filled with invaluable insights and guidance
Anne, the owner, personally curates book recommendations. Her meticulous selection guarantees that every page turned brings our hopeful parents closer to their dream of parenthood.
The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child
Nancy Newton Vierrers Author and Clinical Psychologist writes about the effects of early childhood trauma that is caused by separation from the mother at birth.
This book validates the feelings of adoptees and foster children and helps the adoptive family and birthmother to better understand and encourage those who have felt abandoned. It will help to bridge the gap between the adoptive family and the adoptees as they navigate through this journey of adoption.
Twenty things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Author Sherrie Eldridge and the voices of many adopted children reveal twenty complex emotional issues that adoptive parents must understand to help free their adopted child from feelings of fear, abandonment and shame.
She points out that the child must be able to grieve the loss of their birthmother to understand and receive the love that they are being given from them. She also points out that it is important that the adoptive parents, though hard as it may be need to be willing to be honest and open with their child about their parents and the adoption.
What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption An Adoptee's Perspective On Its History, Nuances and Practices
An adoption attorney guides adoption families and birth parents through the adoption process. Because of this, it is very important to to hire an attorney towards the beginning of your adoption journey. Adoption laws vary from state to state. Everything to open adoption to birth fathers’ rights can be different in each state. It is important along with an adoption agency to have a lawyer help guide you through the adoption process. A list of attorneys is being collected for you to choose from.
The Connected Child
The Connected Child by Karyn B. Purvis: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family is a book recommended for anyone who parents kids with troubled backgrounds, and should be required reading for all foster and adoptive parents. This book can be used as a continual parenting resource because it discusses just about any issue that a foster or adoptive parent may encounter.
The Connected Parent
Parenting under the best of circumstances can be difficult. And raising children who have come to your home from “hard places,” who have their own set of unique needs, brings even more challenges. You may have discovered that the techniques that worked with your birth children are not working with your adopted or foster child.
Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers.
You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.
The Connected Parent will help you lovingly guide your children and bring renewed hope and restoration to your family.
Adopted For Life
Anne Says: “A great book for Pastors and leaders in churches to read and help them to know what Adoption is and how they can better obey the command God gives in His word of taking care of the orphans in their distresses.”
The gospel of Jesus Christ—the good news that through Jesus we have been adopted as sons and daughters into God’s family—means that Christians ought to be at the forefront of the adoption of orphans in North America and around the world.
Russell D. Moore does not shy away from this call in Adopted for Life, a popular-level, practical manifesto for Christians to adopt children and to help equip other Christian families to do the same. He shows that adoption is not just about couples who want children—or who want more children. It is about an entire culture within the church, a culture that sees adoption as part of the Great Commission mandate and as a sign of the gospel itself.
