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Title: |
Adoption |
| Sub-title: |
The Search for a New Parenthood |
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| By (author): |
Gary Diamond, Eva Arbel |
| ISBN10-13: |
1631177109 : 9781631177101 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
260x180mm |
| Pages: |
243 |
| Weight: |
.580 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - June 2014 |
| List Price: |
212.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Adoption & fostering |
| Gary Diamond, an American-trained developmental paediatrician, has along with professional colleagues over the past 15 years counselled and travelled to orphanages around the world in the service of adoptive parents, interested in evaluating the child pre-adoption in his/her native setting, often being in foster care or orphanages in a variety of countries in Eastern Europe and Central America. The book is a collection of 25 true accounts of adoption, post adoption and adolescent and adult experiences with adoption, and presents a unique chronicle of the life cycle of the adoptive family and the adopted individual, with the added dimension of actual accounts of orphanage life. The book, and the stories within, are a chronicle of an individual's search for identity, which is a universal theme. The book originates in Israel, where adoptive families actually send physicians, trained in child development, to countries to examine children offered for adoption, enabling adoption professionals to acquire long-standing and intimate insights, into the process of adoption, from its very early stages, when institutionalised children are first exposed to visiting professionals and prospective adoptive parents. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Prologue; Introduction; Sealing One's Fate; What's Overt & What's Covert; International Adoption: How It's Organized; To Be an Orphan; Orphanages; The Adoption Business; Parents as Consumers; "He's the One!"; When to Tell the Child the Truth; Fears; Love & Prejudice; The Body Doesn't Lie; Choice & Control in Adoption; Magdalena's Performance; The Child of our Dreams; Waiting for the Phone to Ring; The Power of Faith; A Different Kind of Family; 'Ghosts in the Nursery; 'Georgia on my Mind; A Child from a Good Home; Pages from a Social Worker's Notebook: Chronicles from Encounters with Adopting Families; "So Where is Your Mother?"; They Say that Mira Resembles her Mother & Father; “We Saw You, We Fell in Love with You”; I Gave Her Up because I had No Choice; Leonard Writes His Parents from There; Jared Learns What a Mother Is; “Thanks to His Parents, You Have that Wonderful Jared”; Princess or Frog; Like Grandmother, Like Mother; Choices; Family Day; Only Three Weeks; Caught between Two Worlds; Bibliography; About the Authors; Index.
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