description: Books about adoption offer valuable insights and support for those considering the journey of bringing a child into their family. These books explore the complexities of adoption, the trauma experienced by adoptees, and the challenges faced by adoptive parents. This list of books about adoption represents a variety of perspectives and styles, making it a valuable resource for anyone exploring the world of adoption.
Here is a list of books about adoption that are highly recommended by adoption experts and organizations:
- Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison: This book is a powerful exploration of the realities of foster care and adoption, offering a nuanced look at the difficulties that adoption can bring.
- The Primal Wound by Nancy Newton Verrier: This book delves into the trauma that adoptees experience when they are removed from their birth parents, providing a deep understanding of the adoptees' experiences.
- Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care by Mike and Kristen Berry: This book is an excellent resource for adoptive and foster care parents, offering straightforward answers to often misunderstood questions.
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate: This book is a fictionalized account of a controversial adoption case, highlighting the issues faced by adoptees and the broader issue of adoption ethics.
- Hello I Love You by Ted Kluck: This book tells the emotional story of the adoption of two boys from Ukraine, exploring the anticipation, sleepless nights, and other emotions faced by adoptive families.
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung: This book provides a raw and honest look at the adoption process, from the initial excitement to the challenges of post-adoption life.
- The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis: This book offers practical strategies for building a strong attachment with an adopted child, addressing attachment issues and other key topics related to adoption.
- [An Open Hearted Way to Open Adoption] by Lori Holden: This book is a guide for adoptive and birth parents looking to navigate the complexities of open adoption, providing guidance on communication, engagement, and fostering a healthy relationship with the adoptee's birth parents.
- Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families by Patricia Irwin Johnston: This book is a practical guide for prospective parents considering adoption, addressing the emotional, social, and financial aspects of making an adoption plan.
- Adoption is a Family Affair! by Patricia Irwin Johnston: This book offers valuable insights and advice for relatives and friends of adoptive families, helping them understand the adoption process and provide support.
- Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent’s Guide by Lois Ruskai Melina: This book helps parents understand and respond to their adopted child's unique set of concerns and feelings, promoting self-esteem and emotional intelligence in their relationships.
- The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption by Anne Moody: This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of adoption and foster care, revealing the challenges and achievements of the people working in these fields.
- While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt by Heidi Schlumpf: This book is a comforting resource for expectant parents undergoing the anxiety and stress of foster care and adoption, offering spiritual guidance and practical advice.
- Labor of The Heart: A Parent’s Guide to Decisions and Emotion in Adoption by Kathleen L. Whitten: This book is a guide for adoptive parents navigating the emotional aspects of adoption, helping them to overcome the emotional rollercoaster associated with this significant life decision.
- The Addicted Child: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse by Richard Capriola: This book provides guidance for parents of adolescents who are struggling with substance abuse, offering information on identifying issues, finding treatment, and supporting a child with substance abuse challenges.
- From Beyond the Skies by Juli Boit: An adopted child's journey of overcoming adoption obstacles and finding a loving family is told in this inspiring memoir.
- A Daughter To Many by Kari E. Wiseman: This book tells the story of an adoptive mother's quest for family history and reunification after her adopted child discovered surprising information about her past.
- A Love-Stretched Life by Jillana Goble: The author shares Stories of her life as a parent by adoption, foster care, and birth to with others who are facing the curveballs that life throws.
- *You’ll Forget This Ever Happened By Laura L. Engel: This book describes the adoption journey of a birth mother who was forces to give up her baby for adoption during the Baby Scoop Era, including her experiences of living in a home for unwed mothers.
- Adoption, It’s Worth It! by Kimberly Purnell Moore: This self-help guide for parents trying to explain adoption to their children is tailored to different age groups and includes special features for readers, such as a note section and practical tips for parents. The book was a Runner-Up for the 2006 National Book Award in the category Biography.
- Adopting Alyosha by Robert Close: This is a 3 years proceeding through the international adoption maze and serves as an instructional firsthand manual for single men wishing to adopt.
- You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker: This is a personal account of transracial adoption from the adoptee's point of view, intertwining her own personal story throughout, and you feel compelled to keep reading to
