Adopción y acogimiento

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  • Adopting a Daughter from China
    Denise Harris Hoppenhauer
    From the Author of Adopting A Toddler, Denise Hoppenhauer brings you Adopting a Daughter from China. Written for first time parents, the practical advice offered here combines the challenging aspects of parenthood, with personal experience and the unique needs of adoptive families.This easy to read, book covers every aspect of adopting from China: preparing the nursery, changin...
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    15,10 €

  • The Adoption Mystique
    Joanne Wolf Small / Joanne Wolf Small M.S.W.
    The framework that surrounds adoption laws, policies and practicees, the beliefs, myths and attitudes that endow it with enhanced and profound meaning, value, and mystery are what author Joanne Wolf Small, M.S.W. calls the adoption mystique. Its power is evident in the dispsaraging attitudes about adoption and adoptees held by millions of people.Important issues remain buried,...
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    21,06 €

  • The Adoption Mystique
    Joanne Wolf Small / Joanne Wolf Small M.S.W.
    The framework that surrounds adoption laws, policies and practicees, the beliefs, myths and attitudes that endow it with enhanced and profound meaning, value, and mystery are what author Joanne Wolf Small, M.S.W. calls the adoption mystique. Its power is evident in the dispsaraging attitudes about adoption and adoptees held by millions of people.Important issues remain buried,...
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    31,69 €

  • Hungarian Rhapsody
    James Derk
    'Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story' is a heart-warming account of an Indiana couple who set out to adopt a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe but wouldn’t stop until they had brought home six children.Fighting red-tape all the way, Jim and Kim Derk were determined to reunite a split-up family and then keep them together at all costs.A must-read for anyone consideri...
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    21,62 €

  • Hungarian Rhapsody
    James Derk
    'Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story' is a heart-warming account of an Indiana couple who set out to adopt a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe but wouldn’t stop until they had brought home six children.Fighting red-tape all the way, Jim and Kim Derk were determined to reunite a split-up family and then keep them together at all costs.A must-read for anyone consideri...
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    32,25 €

  • The Basics of Adoption
    James Dickerson / Mardi Allen
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    69,12 €

  • Understanding Adoption
    Kathleen Hushion
    Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds. ...
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    152,37 €

  • Understanding Adoption
    Kathleen Hushion
    Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds. ...
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    65,19 €

  • Weaving a Family
    Barbara Katz Rothman
    A pathbreaking study of the continuing impact of race and adoption on our society by a sociologist who is also the white mother of an African American childRead the first chapter (.pdf)Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, an...
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    21,86 €

  • The Other Choice
    Tamra Clum Barton
    This is a personal and touching story of one women's journey to find a child. Tamra spent 8 years pursuing a child through fertility clinics without success. Her body would not cooperate and give her the child she wanted. The need for a child was so overwhelming they turned to adoption. Their adoption journey from start to finish took three years, while reading the story y...
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    17,34 €

  • Journeying Through State Adoption
    Daphine L Reeves
    Journeying Through State Adoption is a practical guide for anyone who desires to adopt a child and who needs information to begin. It gives you a complete roadmap for navigating the state foster care system. You will walk through the touching story of a family who pursued their desire to share love with a child in need.Additionally, Journeying Through State Adoption is for thos...
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    12,81 €

  • A Very Special Child
    Debra Shiveley Welch
    A book written from the heart of a ’mother’ one who adopted a child and found her true calling. ...
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    15,95 €

  • At First A Dream
    Vic Goguen
    A solitary figure stands stoop-shouldered at the entrance to a closed China Air terminal at JFK, and he feels a creeping vulnerability that is foreign to him at age fifty-three. Peering through the rain and fog at the ghostly glow of streetlights on deserted airport roads, he wonders what in heaven’s name he is doing there.alone.in the middle of the night.six thousand dollars s...
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    14,39 €

  • Arms Wide Open
    Jane Waters
    Arms Wide Open provides a window into the lives of young pregnant women struggling with the decision of making an adoption plan or becoming a single parent. It is a vital tool for couples considering open adoption. Mrs. Waters clearly outlines the emotional turmoil of the birth mothers and offers suggestions to help make an open adoption a positive experience for the child, t...
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    14,73 €

  • Becoming a Family
    Lark Eshleman
    Becoming a Family helps adoptive parents recognize and respond to the signs of broken attachment. This practical guide offers clear and effective strategies for parents to help their children overcome their uncertain past and embrace the love of their new parents. ...
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    12,99 €

  • Hola
    Shaina Maidel
    Hola: An Adoption Adventure is a chronicle of one woman’s adventures as she struggles with fear while trying to adopt her infant daughter in a politically stressed third world country. Ultimately, Shaina finds that blind courage and faith are her best tools for survival. Hola is replete with information about the adoption process and its possible pitfalls. It offers a picture ...
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    14,70 €

  • Riding on Angels Wings - My Spiritual and Physical Pregnancies
    Cynthia M. Burris / Cynthia MBurris
    Brace yourself to be filled with inspiration, love and devotion after you read this tale of two beautiful 'Spiritual and Physical' pregnancies; you’ll want to start your own voyage. ...
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    18,25 €

  • The Cruelest Con
    Kelly Kiser-Mostrom
    The Cruelest Con 'is a unique book in many ways: it is deeply personal, emotionally powerful, and contains important lessons for everyone in the adoption community. We all should read it and learn from it - so that adoption can truly be the rewarding, ethical process that it should be.'--Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation and executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Ado...
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    16,08 €

  • ADOPTING ELDAR
    RANDALL BAKER
    'At its simplest, this is the story of an adoption. Simple stops there. How is this different? The 13-year old boy initiates the process himself None of the boy’s living parents has ever met each other, and they do not share a common language. He comes from one of the remotest, yet loveliest, locations in the world-the North Caucasus The 'rules' for this process are unfathomab...
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    30,30 €

  • Black Baby White Hands
    Jaiya John
    It is only months following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nation is burning. Black and White America are locked in the tense grip of massive change. Into this inferno steps an unsuspecting young White couple. Neither truly knew even a single African American person while growing up. Now, a child will change all of that forever. Over the fateful years to ...
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    29,70 €

  • ADOPTING ELDAR
    RANDALL BAKER
    'At its simplest, this is the story of an adoption. Simple stops there. How is this different? The 13-year old boy initiates the process himself None of the boy’s living parents has ever met each other, and they do not share a common language. He comes from one of the remotest, yet loveliest, locations in the world-the North Caucasus The 'rules' for this process are unfathomab...
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    15,48 €

  • The Family of Adoption
    Joyce Maguire Pavao
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    18,37 €

  • Private Adoption in Virginia
    Robert Klima
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    10,14 €

  • Butterflies in the Wind
    Jean N. Erichsen / Jean NErichsen
    The book chronicles not only the adoption of their three children abroad, but follows each of their children (including their biological son) into young adulthood. It vividly depicts their difficulties in raising teenagers in a cross-cultural, transracial home, and also exposes the frightening conditions facing today’s kids in our public schools, including gang issues, drop out...
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    27,11 €

  • Butterflies in the Wind
    Jean N. Erichsen / Jean NErichsen
    The book chronicles not only the adoption of their three children abroad, but follows each of their children (including their biological son) into young adulthood. It vividly depicts their difficulties in raising teenagers in a cross-cultural, transracial home, and also exposes the frightening conditions facing today’s kids in our public schools, including gang issues, drop out...
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    19,56 €

  • The Post-Adoption Blues
    John R. Thompson / John RThompson / Karen J. Foli / Karen JFoli
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    15,76 €

  • Katya’s Comet
    Scott Roos
    Once Scott Roos embraced his wife Nancy’s vision to adopt an older child in need, the couple embarked on a roller coaster ride of international adoption. While the process was challenging and downright discouraging at times, they persevered with strength derived from heart-sourced guidance to overcome many obstacles, doubts, and fears. The joyous outcome, Katya, provided a gift...
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    10,54 €

  • Parents by Choice
    Terese E. Deblander / Terese EDeblander
    'Parents By Choice is an excellent guide for researching adoption as a method for building a family. It is informative and enjoyable. I highly recommend this book for any prospective parent or parents wishing to pursue a domestic or international adoption.'--Chriss Barnes, Small Miracles International'Few books move me to tears and laughter any more, but Parents By Choice did. ...
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    7,52 €

  • The Chinese Adoption Handbook
    John H. MacLean / John HMacLean
    Adopting a child can be one of life’s most rewarding experiences. Unfortunately, complex policies, legal risks, and fewer available children can make a domestic adoption difficult. International adoption offers a solution to parents yearning for a child of their own.American parents are now adopting over 6,000 children a year from China and Korea. John Maclean’s The Chinese Ado...
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    15,75 €

  • Adopting a Toddler
    Denise Harris Hoppenhauer
    Finally, a childcare book written with the unique needs of adopted toddlers in mind. Written by an adoptive parent, Adopting A Toddler: What Size Shoes Does She Wear? is an indispensable guide to the wonderful world of toddler adoption. Filled with essential parenting information, Adopting a Toddler answers many questions that parents ask, including questions about changing a n...
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    15,07 €