Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child†for a skin condition that […]
The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees’ visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical [...]
The number of anxious, depressed, hyperactive and withdrawn children is staggering–and still growing! Millions have experienced bullying, violence (real or in the media), abuse or sexual [...]
For a birthmom, adoption is such a unique loss. When she chooses adoption for her child, she sometimes finds herself unable to deal with the overwhelming sense of loss and […]
This book chronicles the life of a young girl as she is thrust from the only home she knows. Molested by her step-father, abandoned by her mother she is thrown […]
Growing up in foster care from five to twenty-one years old, due to her mother’s addictions, healing after years of sexual abuse, This book draws from her own experiences as […]
When Georgette aged out of the foster care system, she wasn’t prepared to live independently. She had very little money to her name and no real safety nets to catch […]
In Done With The Crying: Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children, Sheri McGregor, M.A., helps parents break free from emotional pain—and move forward in their own lives. […]
Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just [...]