Being Adopted
With simplicity, sensitivity, and honesty, the author documents the inner lives of these 3 children, revealing their doubts, fears, satisfactions, and triumphs – feelings and experiences brought about by adoption. […]
This Resource Library is a collection of books, tapes, and DVDs, as well as instantly downloadable items, such as newsletters and tip sheets. You will find a wide variety of topics related to foster care, kinship caregiving, adoption, and more.
Wisconsin families and professionals are welcome to check out physical materials from our library for free (electronic items are available to all for free and on demand). The requested materials will be shipped to you with a postage-paid return envelope. You can help us serve more people by sending along a check for the amount of postage, if possible. You may check out four (4) items at a time and keep them for three (3) weeks.
To help you navigate our rich library of free downloadable resources, we have created some table of contents documents that we hope you find helpful.
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With simplicity, sensitivity, and honesty, the author documents the inner lives of these 3 children, revealing their doubts, fears, satisfactions, and triumphs – feelings and experiences brought about by adoption. […]
Biographies of an adoptive parent supportive group. All contributors to the book are intimately connected with special needs adoption. Support group members are adoptive parents of kids who meet every […]
Answers questions, offers information about who can adopt, why adoption should be considered, how kids understand adoption as they grow up and more.
What relatives and friends must know. This book will answer questions for family and friends about who can adopt, why people adopt, how people adopt, how kids understand adoption and […]
As Annie and her adoptive father go through the treasured contents of an old coffee can, she establishes a connection to her past and her origins, and comes to terms […]
What child wouldn’t want two birthdays? Beth surely does! When she hears again her adoption arrival story with excitement and celebration surrounding her coming home, Beth misunderstands. She can’t wait […]
What a fun way to celebrate racial differences! Take a walk with Lena among her friends and neighbors and end up with a smorgasboard of skin tones: “”Cinnamon, chocolate, and […]
Answers questions, offers information about who can adopt, why adoption should be considered, how kids understand adoption as they grow up, and more.
The path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment. This compassionate, illuminating and ultimately uplifting book offers solutions for the normal but unspoken stress that adoptive families […]
Ann Stressman wrote this book after hearing Ruby Payne speak about the hidden rules of economic class, combining that perspective into her two decades of personal experience with foster care […]