Wonderful story of love and family

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	• The Family Nobody Wanted Helen Doss Northeastern, 2001 - 274 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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The Family Nobody Wanted

Heartwarming! I absolutely love this book. Helen Doss and her family have touched so many lives over the years with their story of what love and family, commitment and priorities are all about. As a teenager I read a copy of my mother's that I still have. Over the years I have spoken with other people who had read the book and was looking for a copy of it. After combing garage sales and book sales without finding even one copy, I was so happy to see that this book is back in print!

Changed My Life

I ordered this book from Scholastic books when I was eight years old. Reading it literally changed my life. Right after I finished the book, I announced to my family and friends that one day I was going to adopt a child.

Years passed & I re-read the book many times. Along the way, like Carl & Helen Doss, I was told I was unable to have children. Finally, at the age of 43, I became a mother for the first time when I adopted my daughter from China.

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Wonderful story of love and family

I read Helen Doss' heartwarming book in grade school and am thrilled to see it back in print. Carl and Helen Doss, a young couple struggling to get Carl through divinity school, adopt a baby boy. Without really planning it, they adopt eleven more children!

Mrs. Doss' book is more than just a memoir of her precious children; it's also an indictment of a social service system that, through prejudice, denied who-knows-how-many mixed-race children loving homes. So many couples could have known the joy of children and given loving homes to them in return. Her book helped raise awareness and open doors (and hearts) to the needs of "unadoptables." Thanks to families like hers, those policies are now dead.

I've thought of the twelve adoptees over the years, and wondered how their lives turned out. Mrs. Doss gives an update of sorts in this new, revised addition, but left out more detail for privacy concerns. I hope one of them decides to expand on mom's work someday. Five stars.

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The Family Nobody Wanted

This book is very heartwarming and can touch anyones heart. This book talks about a couple that can't have children so then they go to another option which is adoption. First of all they are a very poor couple and can barely afford food. They go apply for adoption and get declined they then fix the problems with their financial needs and then apply again getting approved. They get their first baby boy, Donny. They have trouble taking care of him since their very afraid of 'breaking one of his bones'. But they get through after that they apply for MORE AND MORE children and go through troubles along the way. At the end they adopt 12 CHILDREN and get in an article in a magazine. This book was really nice and I recommend it to anyone who wants to read a comforting story...

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Life-changing

I'm so pleased to see this title back in print. I read it, and re-read it, and re-re-read it many times as a young teen. And I owe this book the credit for my two precious children, who joined our family shortly after their births.

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