Aching to expand from a couple to a family, Jeff Gammage-a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer-and his wife, Christine, embarked upon a journey that would carry them across a shifting landscape of emotion and through miles of red tape and bureaucratic protocol. On the other side of the world-in the smog-choked city of Changsha in Hunan Province-a silent, stoic little girl was waiting for them: Jin Yu, their new daughter. Now they would have to...

The problem with discovering your roots is that the more digging you do, the dirtier you can get. Adopted into middle-class urban respectability, but with origins deep in the heart of a dramatic rural landscape, BRONCLE is a personal journey of discovery intrinsically linked to the bloody past of Ireland; a true story of smuggling, heartbreak, betrayal, adultery, and lifetime of deception and secrecy.

This is a very unique story. I grew up in the foster care system in the state of Alabama until being adopted at age twelve. Eighteen years later my life came full circle as my wife and I officially became foster parents to three beautiful children. While they were in our care, I got deployed to Afghanistan with the air force, and my wife had our firstborn biological child while I was overseas! On January 29, 2016, twenty-two years after I got adopted...

A must read for anyone interested in providing adolescent foster care. This book covers many intricate details of providing foster care and the steps to getting started from beginning to end...

Un romance prohibido. Una tentación irresistible. ¿Podrán resistirse al amor de verano de sus vidas? Emilia Moretti, de dieciséis años, tiene un objetivo este verano: olvidarse de que Nick Grawski, el mejor amigo de su hermano, existe. Debería ser fácil, ya que el rompecorazones estará en los Hamptons, conquistando chicas en diminutos bikinis. Mientras tanto, Emilia se enfocará en perfeccionar su técnica de ballet y en buscar a sus padres...

This moving picture book about open adoption shares all parents' wish for a child's life to be full of love and family. One birth mother is pregnant with a baby and wants to find parents to adopt the child. Eventually she finds two dads who will be just the right parents, because they, too, share her same wishes of love and happiness for the baby. Author Dano Moreno drew from his and his husband's experience with adopting their son to write a gentle,...

Fighting seemed to be the only thing Connan was good at when it came to his father. Now, in order to save him, he must run away from the very home that has neglected to love him. Never truly knowing what a real family looks like, he sets off and hides with a foster family headed by a captain of the local police force and a retired nurse. Will he find the family he's always wanted and a love he's never known? Or will danger follow and destroy the hope...

After her parents' deaths, Anabelle is sent to live with her grandfather whom she has never met.Finding herself in the house of a man who has no love, she searches for answers and hope.All the while wondering, how is one supposed to live with no love?

Last year, Anna learned how to be a good friend. Now that her family has adopted a baby girl from China, she wants to learn how to be a good sister. But the new year proves challenging when the doctor warns that the baby isn't thriving. Can Anna and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that saves the day? In this heartwarming sequel to The Year of the Book, readers will be just as moved by Anna's devotion to her new sister...

This book is about a long, sad, relentless journey to become a parent. The journey is not something I would wish for anyone; but, unfortunately, lots of people go through it. However, seeing the rainbow at the end of the journey is what I wish for everyone who longs to have children.