Adoption and fostering Books
Nova Science Publishers Inc Foster Care in Indian Tribes: Challenges &
Book SynopsisTitle IV-E of the Social Security Act provides federal support for foster care and adoption assistance programs. Since 2008, 5 tribes have been approved to operate their own title IV-E foster care programs, although more than 80 tribes initially expressed an interest in doing so. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides development grants and technical assistance to tribes interested in establishing a title IV-E program. This book examines obstacles facing tribes interested in directly operating a title IV-E program; and the assistance HHS has provided. Under title IV-E, states are entitled to open-ended reimbursement for the cost of providing foster care, adoption assistance, and (in states that choose to provide it) kinship guardianship assistance. Additional mandatory funding is available, on a capped basis, for services to youth who "age out" of foster care, or are expected to, and for Tribal Title IV-E plan development and technical assistance. The conclusion of this title provides information on child welfare proposals under the Title IV-E program.
£72.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Rehoming of Adopted Children: Addressing
Book SynopsisParents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving unregulated custody transfers of adopted children. Commonly referred to as "rehoming," this practice involves parents who turn to the internet or other unregulated networks to find a new home for their child. These media reports found instances in which adopted children were placed in dangerous situations where they were harmed by the adults who received them. This book examines the reasons adoptive families consider unregulated child custody transfers, and services that exist to support these families before they take such an action; what is known about the prevalence of these transfers; and actions selected states and federal agencies have taken to address such transfers.
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc Adoption Options, Considerations & Guidance
Book SynopsisThe prospect of adopting a child can be both exciting and overwhelming. There are many different types of adoption and choices to be made in pursuing an adoption. Your options for adoption will depend on the needs and interests of an adoptable child or youth as well as what is important to your family. These factors may include your flexibility around the characteristics of the child you wish to adopt, your feelings about contact with birth family members, your resources, and how long you are willing to wait for your child. This book discusses the options available for different types of families and provides guidance for adopting a child.
£138.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc After Adoption: Postadoption Assistance,
Book SynopsisIt is common for adoptive families to need support and services after adoption. Postadoption services can help families with a wide range of issues. They are available for everything from learning how to explain adoption to a preschooler, to helping a child who experienced early childhood abuse, to supporting an adopted teens search for identity. Experience with adoptive families has shown that all family members can benefit from some type of postadoption support. Families of children who have experienced trauma, neglect, abuse, out-of-home care, or institutionalisation may require more intensive services. This book serves as a guide to postadoption assistance.
£120.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc Foster Children & Youth in Congregate Care
Book SynopsisAbout 14 percent of the more than 400,000 children in foster care nationwide lived in congregate care at the end of fiscal year 2013, according to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data. This book examines how selected states have reduced their use of congregate care; and some challenges with reducing congregate care placements, and efforts HHS has taken to help states reduce congregate care.
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc Adoption Records & Postadoption Contact
Book SynopsisIn nearly all States, adoption records are sealed and withheld from public inspection after an adoption is finalised. This book discusses state laws that provide for access to both nonidentifying and identifying information from an adoption record by adoptive parents and adult adopted persons, while still protecting the interests of all parties. Furthermore, the book discusses postadoption contact agreements, which are are arrangements that allow contact between a childs adoptive family and members of the childs birth family or other persons with whom the child has an established relationship, such as a foster parent, after the childs adoption has been finalized. These arrangements, sometimes referred to as cooperative adoption or open adoption agreements, can range from informal, mutual understandings between the birth and adoptive families to written, formal contracts.
£138.39
Spinifex Press Adoption Deception: A personal and professional
Book SynopsisWhat is it like to be adopted, have your identity changed and never feel quite at home in your new family, despite being loved? What is it like to become a social worker and be faced with the challenges and consequences of other adoptions every day? What is it like to hear the moving National Apology for Forced Adoptions by Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2013 only to be faced a few months later by a new prime minister intent on forgetting all the lessons learnt and championing a deregulated parent-centred market-driven adoption industry? Penny Mackieson takes us on her journey with the unique perspective of both the adopted person and a professional who worked in intercountry adoption for over a decade. She unravels the complexity, debunks the myths, analyses the policies and raises important questions about the ethical and human rights dilemmas in adoption.Adoption Deception: A personal and professional journey is a passionate, heart-wrenching and unflinchingly honest account of one woman’s life as an adopted person and her campaign for change. The author presents a compelling argument for Permanent Care instead of adoption for vulnerable children unable to be raised by their families.Trade Review"Adoption Deception is a deeply personal account of the experience of adoption, and the effect it can have into adulthood. It is a story of how family relationships can be influenced by adoption policies and practices. It challenges us to think about how we respond to the commercialisation of children through adoption and assisted reproductive technologies." -- Professor Marie Connolly, Chair & Head of Social Work, The University of Melbourne."This is a lightning rod of a book, one that will summon thunderclaps of applause and disapproval. I am not saying I agree with the argument the author makes; I am saying I admire the naked personal honesty with which she makes it. Whatever viewpoint you have at the end of this book, I guarantee you this -- you will think, and feel, more deeply about the issue of adoption." -- Martin Flanagan, author & Agejournalist"This is a powerful and passionate book about the personal and political aspects of adoption. While it is overwhelmingly negative about adoption and the author believes the practice is outdated and should cease, she does present strong arguments for her case." Sue Bond, PhD candidate at Central Queensland University, Australian Women's Book Review
£13.46
Massey University Press Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion
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£27.89
HarperCollins Publishers A Last Kiss for Mummy A teenage mum a tiny infant a desperate decision
Book SynopsisBestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the heartbreaking true story of a teenage mother and baby in need of a safe and loving home.
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers LEARNING TO LOVE AMY The foster carer who saved a mother and a daughter HarperTrue Life A Short Read
Book SynopsisThe second in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi.
£8.67
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Etched in Sand
Book SynopsisRecounts how the author and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood, caring for one another while enduring a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness - all in the shadows between Manhattan and the Hamptons.Trade ReviewRiveting reading from start to finish... Never once does she flinch from the terrible truths with which she has lived and so courageously reveals here. -- Kirkus Reviews Courageous and fascinating, written with a descriptive restraint that recalls moments of tragedy and perseverance with simplicity and subtlety... Calcaterra concludes her story with the genuine sentiment that 'we all have to believe.' At the end of this unforgettable book, readers will. -- Publishers Weekly
£12.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Finding Chika
Book SynopsisMitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.” --Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika’s arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, “No one in Haiti can help you with.” Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika’s boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed—a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made.
£12.34
Random House Publishing Group 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed Discover the Secrets to Understanding the Unique Needs of Your Adopted ChildAnd Becoming the Best Parent
Book SynopsisDo I have what it takes to be a successful adoptive parent?Does my child consider me a successful parent?Will I ever hear my rebellious teen say, “I love you”?What tools do I need to succeed?In her groundbreaking first book, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge gave voice to the very real concerns of adopted children, whose unique perspectives offered unprecedented insight. In this all-new companion volume, Eldridge goes beyond those insights and shifts her focus to parents, offering them much-needed encouragement and hope.Speaking from her own experience as an adoptee and an expert in the field of adoption, Eldridge shares proven strategies and the moving narratives of nearly one hundred adoptive families, helping parents gain a deeper understanding of what is normal, both for their children and themselves. By first strengthening yourself as a parent, you’ll be able to tr
£15.19
iUniverse Parents By Choice An insightful guide exploring adoption to build your family
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£8.99
iUniverse BUTTERFLIES IN THE WIND The Truth about Latin American Adoptions
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£12.96
iUniverse Just For Awhile
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£9.68
iUniverse A Girl Named Maria The Story of an Adoption
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£15.57
iUniverse FALLEN FROM THE NEST THE EPIC OF A YOUNG ORPHANED IMMIGRANT FALLEN FROM THE NEST THE EPIC OF A YOUNG ORPHANED IMMIGRANT BY LACROIX FLORENCE L AUTHOR DEC012008 FALLEN FROM THE NEST THE EPIC OF A YOUNG ORPHANED IMMIGRANT FALLEN FROM THE N
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£19.76
iUniverse Fallen from the Nest The Epic of a Young Orphaned Immigrant
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£15.15
Vanderbilt University Press Culture Keeping
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£69.00
Vanderbilt University Press Culture Keeping
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£33.95
Vanderbilt University Press Saving International Adoption
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£21.56
Alexis Broadcasting Company The Ugly One in the Middle An Adoptees Wicked and Witty Search for Identity and Love
£14.62
Creative Media Partners, LLC Protecting Children in Adoption. Report of a Conference Held in Washington June 27 and 28 1955
£22.75
Creative Media Partners, LLC Protecting Children in Adoption. Report of a Conference Held in Washington June 27 and 28 1955
£15.15
Creative Media Partners, LLC Children Who Age Out Of The Foster Care System
£22.75
Hutson Street Press Children Who Age Out Of The Foster Care System
£12.95
Hutson Street Press Foster Care
£21.80
Creative Media Partners, LLC Foster Care
£13.22
Rarefied The Museum of Happiness
£13.12
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Unknown Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now
£16.38
Lioncrest Publishing Mission
£16.48
In His Steps Publishing Company Refuge Ranch
£12.49
Atmosphere Press Comfrey, Wyoming: Marcela's Army
£14.24
Archway Publishing The Greek in Me
£10.40
Authorhouse Successful Journey Through Foster Care
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£11.61
Marti Smith Seminars Connected Therapist: Relating Through the Senses, the
£13.74
Molly Hardy Kitty Claws and the Magic of Dreaming
£18.04
Panda Publishing Agency UK Notes from a NonExpectant Mother
£11.07
Panda Publishing Agency UK Notes from a NonExpectant Mother
£14.99
Hmd Publishing Surrogacy
£9.49
Peacock Proud Press Store Bought Baby
£21.56
Peacock Proud Press Store Bought Baby
£17.05
Triomphe Press How to Find Your Birth Parents
£11.99
Christmas Lake Press Pretend They Are Dead
£17.09
£16.14
Black Sheep Library, LLC Choosing to Breathe
£13.30
Game Changer Publishing One from Each Column
£18.04
