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Title: Adopting in China: A Practical Guide/an Emotional Journey by Kathleen, Ph.D. Wheeler, Doug Werner, Kathleeen Wheeler ISBN: 1-884654-00-2 Publisher: Tracks Pub Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Man's View of Adopting in China
Comment: I found "Adopting in China" to be a wonderful book on two levels. The first level was practical: the specific costs, logistics and preparation for adopting a Chinese child. (Don't miss the resource list at the back.) The second, and more important, level was personal: an open and honest story of the internal journey a man goes through as he moves from "going along with" his wife's adoption wishes to discovering a new world of love with the child. Although the first author listed is Kathleen Wheeler Werner, 95% of the book was written by Doug Werner. This is a male story, told by a man with his thoughts and feelings. We see the adoption process, the child and even China through his "Everyman" eyes. As a woman and as a professional accustomed to traveling internationally, I didn't always agree with him or feel comfortable with what he was expressing -- and that's what made this book so powerful. It forced me to think. Every husband who is still feeling ambivalent about adopting from abroad and every wife with such a husband should read and discuss this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Why?
Comment: Why would anyone travel half way around the world just to place their child in daycare for 10 hours a day and think this is wonderful? Had I not known better, I would never consider adopting from China after this bad read.
Rating: 1
Summary: No appreciation for China
Comment: My wife and I are in the process of adopting from China. I got this book thinking it not only be informative about the logistics of the process, but would be a great story of a couple's process in adopting. How wrong I was.
The logistics mentioned are either out-of-date, too vague, or only specific to this couple's situation. I learned more about the logistics of Chinese adoptions from simply visiting web sites of various agencies that do Chinese adoptions.
As to their personal story, I found it to be much more about the couple's personal wants and needs, their distaste for China, their frustrations with the process, and their difficulties with their new baby girl than about the joy of parenthood and the blessing of adoption. My wife and I have lived in China, and while some of the customs took time to get used to, these authors made no attempt to even understand the culture of their adopted daughter's homeland.
I suspect that they will never return to China, nor will they teach their daughter about her heritage, except to tell her what a terrible place they "rescued" her from. Actually, I'm not sure why they adopted, since their first act when they returned was to find an all-day day-care facility for their new daughter, so they could go back to work.
Thankfully, we didn't base our decision to adopt from China on this book.
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Title: Daughter from Afar : A Family’s International Adoption Story by Sarah L Woodard ISBN: 0595245439 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 18 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:Adopting From China - A Video Survival Guide ASIN: B00006JIUP Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $18.99 |
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Title: The Chinese Adoption Handbook : How to Adopt from China and Korea by John H. Maclean ISBN: 0595275230 Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans, Anchee Min ISBN: 1585421170 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 27 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China by Amy Klatzkin ISBN: 0963847228 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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