Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption (eBook)
228 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1740-9 (ISBN)
Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering.There are many resources on why to do open adoption, but what about how? Open adoption isnt just something parents do when they exchange photos, send emails, share a visit. Its a lifestyle that may feel intrusive at times, be difficult or inconvenient at other times. Tensions can arise even in the best of circumstances. But knowing how to handle these situations and how to continue to make arrangements work for the child involved is paramount. This book offers readers the tools and the insight to do just that. It covers common open-adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.Through their own stories and those of other families of open adoption, Lori and Crystal review the secrets to success, the pitfalls and challenges, the joys and triumphs. By putting the adopted child at the center, families can come to enjoy the benefits of open adoption and mitigate the challenges that may arise. More than a how-to, this book shares a mindset, a heartset, that can be learned and internalized, so parents can choose to act out of love and honesty throughout their child's growing up years, helping that child to grow up whole.
Lori Holden was named a Top 10 “Must-Read Mom” by Parenting magazine and was honored at the annual BlogHer Conference. Her articles have also appeared in Parenting magazine, Conceive magazines, andAdoptive Families magazine Her blog, LavenderLuz.com, has been listed by Adoptive Families Circle, Circle of Moms, and Grown in My Heart websites to be one of the top adoption blogs. She is a monthly contributor to MileHighMamas.com, a Denver Post site. In addition, Lori has written for The American Fertility Association, CreatingAFamily.org and Kaiser Permanente’s Partners in Health magazine. With Crystal, her daughter’s birth mom, she teaches classes on building a child-centered open adoption. Lori Holden was honored as an Angel in Adoption® in 2018 by the Congressional Coalition of Adoption Institute.Crystal Hass has taught about open adoption with Lori Holden at Colorado Free University and at adoption agencies.
IntroductionPart One: From fear to family: Parents come together1: What is open adoption?2: What to consider when choosing an agency or adoption professional3: The parents (first- and adoptive-) in an open adoption4: Guideposts from families who have traveled the pathPart Two2: Orienting on the Child, Open Adoption’s True North5: Openness and the adoptee6: Heading toward wholeness: integrating the child’s biology and biography7: Reality check: it’s not always easy8: Openness in foster, international and donor situations9: Especially for birth parents and those who want to connect with them10: Fare WellAppendix AAppendix BResourcesNotesAcknowledgementsIndex
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2013 |
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Co-Autor | Crystal Hass |
Zusatzinfo | 20 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 18 Text Boxes. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie | |
Schlagworte | Adoption |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-1740-5 / 1442217405 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-1740-9 / 9781442217409 |
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