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Title: Children of Open Adoption and Their Families by Kathleen Silber, Patricia Martinez Dorner ISBN: 0-931722-78-0 Publisher: Corona Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Openness in adoption -- of course!
Comment: We were given this book while we were learning about the process of openness in adoption and nine months later, our child was born to us by his birthparents -- our shared miracle. Back when we were still waiting, reading about open adoption in this book helped my husband and I better understand how this approach to adoption might work in different people's lives. The authors helped us embrace the idea that birthparents could be known in a child's life and be part of a functional extended family. For us, this became true. "Children of Open Adoption" was for us a primer that described the common issues surrounding the concept of openness. This book provided for us the chance to hear from other parents and see how things might play out later in our child's life if we opted for openness. Page by page, we read parts aloud to one another and became more and more convicted that our intuition was right. Openness allowed natural adoption, so that our family would include our child's birthparents. We understood that the amount of openness might be different for each family, but this book helped us also understand the beautiful potential for a normal life that included birthparents and honored both them as life-givers and us as family. For anyone who wants to disagree, I no longer argue. I know that what this book describes, we have. We allowed our trust to grow and we gradually experienced open adoption as a family -- a family that includes our child's birthparents and birthgrandparents, with openness for all of our child's life -- if we are lucky.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truth is what our children need
Comment: We were given this book while we were learning about the process of openness in adoption and nine months later, our child was born to us by his birthparents -- our shared miracle. When we were still waiting, reading about open adoption here helped my husband and I better understand how this approach to adoption might work in different people's lives. The authors helped us embrace the idea that birthparents could be known in a child's life and be part of a functional extended family. For us, this became true. "Children of Open Adoption" was for us a primer that described the common issues surrounding the concept of openness. This book provided for us the chance to "hear" from other parents and see how things might play out later in our child's life if we opted for openness. Page by page, we read parts aloud to one another and became more and more convicted that our intuition was right. Openness was "natural adoption," so that our family would include our child's birthparents. We understood that the amount of openness might be different for each family, but this book helped us also understand the beautiful potential for a normal life that included birthparents and honored both them as life-givers and us as parents. For anyone who wants to disagree, I no longer argue. I know that what this book describes, we have. We allowed our trust to grow and we gradually experienced open adoption as a family -- a family that includes our child's birthparents and birthgrandparents, with openness for all of our child's life -- if we are lucky.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully Helpful for Both Birth and Adoptive Parents
Comment: I am currently pregnant with twin boys that I will be giving up for adoption. I was looking for books to help me and the adoptive parents truly understand open adoption. I LOVE this book! I read through it in only a few days time and now the a-mom is reading it. I recommend this for both sets of parents, it is a GREAT resource!
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Title: The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families--From Making the Decision Through the Child's Growing Years by Lois Ruskai Melina ISBN: 0060969571 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber ISBN: 0931722209 Publisher: Corona Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Adoption Without Fear by James L. Gritter ISBN: 0931722713 Publisher: Corona Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Open Adoption Book : A Guide to Adoption without Tears by Bruce M. Rappaport ISBN: 0028621700 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 29 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Spirit of Open Adoption by James L. Gritter ISBN: 0878686371 Publisher: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America) Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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