Educate Yourself About Adoption and Foster Care

An important step in your journey should be to educate yourself... Learn all you can about parenting the children who are waiting. The following books are suggested reading from AdoptUsKids’ Parent Support Group Network:


  1. A Child’s Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg


  2. A Guide Book for Raising Foster Children by Susan McNair Blatt M.D.


  3. Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child by Anne Babb and Rita Laws


  4. Adopting the Hurt Child by Gregory Keck and Regina Kopecky


  5. Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents by Deborah Gray


  6. Becoming a Family by Lark Eshleman


  7. Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self by David Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter, Robin Marantz Henig


  8. How It Feels to be Adopted by Jill Krementz


  9. Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg, Beth Hall


  10. Our Own, Adopting and Parenting the Older Child by Trish Maskew


  11. Parenting the Hurt Child by Gregory Keck and Regina Kopecky


  12. Parenting Your Adopted Older Child by Brenda McCreight


  13. Raising Adopted Children by Lois Melina


  14. Raising Children Who Refuse To Be Raised by Dave Zielger


  15. Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child by Holly Van Gulden


  16. Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolfe


  17. Second Time Around: Help for Grandparents Who Raise Their Children’s Kids by Joan Callander


  18. The Explosive Child by Ross Greene


  19. The Face in the Mirror (Teenagers and Adoption) by Marion Crook


  20. The Things I Want Most: A family; a fishing Pole; a family by Richard Miniter


  21. Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkin


  22. Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge


  23. Underneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens by Debbie Riley, with John Meeks, MD


  24. Why Didn’t She Keep Me? Answers to the Question Every Adopted Child Asks by Barbara Burlingham-Brown


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