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Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past
Betsy Keefer, Jayne Schooler, ...

Bergin & Garvey Trade, 2000

Practical and Conceptual
I loved this book for a variety of reasons. It begins by laying a groundwork of WHY information can be so powerful and destructive in a family. It contrasts that with how openness can build a foundation of honesty between adopted youths and their parents. In that sense it starts out very conceptual. But it does not stop there, it goes on to give very concrete and practical ways you can give ...

Mom, Dad. . . I'm Pregnant: When Your Daughter or Son Faces an Unplanned Pregnancy

5 reviews
Jayne E. Schooler

NavPress Publishing Group, 2004

Helpful book full of advice, encouragement, and information
The whole day is fuzzy in my memory. The conversation between my sister and I is even a bit hazy around the edges. I think we were in the car on the way to Walgreens. But I do remember the date. Christmas Eve 1999. Nothing changed that day, but I learned that a lot of things would change soon. It was the day my little sister, then 19, told me she was pregnant. I wasn't there when she broke the ...

The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family

7 reviews
Jayne E. Schooler

Pinon Press, 1993

Great revised edition
Do not make the mistake of buying earlier editions of this terrific volume. The new, June 2008 edition is considerably longer and more detailed than the original book, good though that is. First off, this edition deals in much greater detail with questions and issues surrounding the inter-country adoption process, which today is governed by the Hague Convention for International Adoptions. ...

Journeys After Adoption: Understanding Lifelong Issues
Jayne E. Schooler, Betsie L. Norris

Bergin & Garvey Trade, 2002

What can we learn about the experience of adoption from those who have taken that journey? How can those touched by adoption navigate successfully through the issues of search, reunion, and aftermath? Will those answers have a positive impact on adoption today? Drawing upon the experiences of dozens of triad members--adopted persons, birth parents, and adoptive parents--the authors offer insight into the concerns, issues, joys, and pain ...