Not a happy adoption story

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	• The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story Anne Braff Brodzinsky Perspectives Press (IN), 1996 - 47 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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Fond memories

I figured getting the opinion of an adopted child who was read this book as a child might help some of the parents out in whether or not to purchase this book. Please note that I was read the original 1986 version and not the 1996 reprint.

I enjoyed the book, and it help me understand my by biological mother had to put me up for adoption (I was internationally adopted and was born with a literal hole in my hear). I'm not angry at my biological mother for putting me up for adoption and I do believe that this book may be part of the reason why that and my mom's, who was also adopted, explanations. So, I have fond memories of this book, and when I could read this was one of the books I would read, practically every night. And, when I adopt my own kids this will be one of the books I read to them that and "Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies."

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Adoption from foster care

I am a therapist working with children in foster care. There are very few children's adoption books that can be applied to a foster child's experience of being adopted. Most books are written about private adoptions both domestically and internationally. The Mulberry Bird is the first book I have found useful in my therapy sessions with younger foster children who have lived with a foster family for a period of time before being adopted by them. This book helps me explain to a young child the reasons he/she is in foster care. Their mother could not care for them on their own so their foster family had to care for them. Even in situations of abuse and neglect this book is useful in helping open the discussion up for these children. A lot of people are uncomfortable with talking to children about why they cannot live with their biological mother or father. It is important that foster children have an understanding at a level that they can handle. You obviously would not go into all the horrific details about the situation that brought them into foster care, but you would give them a sense of a story that they can hold onto so they can understand where they came from in a sense. When they are older they can expand on this simple story, but in the meantime they can have an explanation so they won't somehow blame themselves which suprisingly enough some kids do when left to their own devices. If anyone knows of anymore adoption books that can be applied to a foster child's adoption experience, please write a recommendation and include the title of the book. Thank you!

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Not a happy adoption story

I read this to my 5 year old girl last night. We both agreed that it was a sad story with an OK ending.

To me it was an allegory of a homeless single mother, abandoned by her mate, heroically trying (and failing) to care for her baby. Parenthood overwhelms her.

With the help of the kindly advisor (the owl), she is able to place the baby with another species of birds.

This book probably would be most appropriate for older multi racial kids.

After reading it my daughter says: "Daddy I love you and Mommy so much and I never want to live with another family. I never want to be adopted"!!

(Consequently, I thought it best that I didn't bring up the subject of her own birthmother, who she knows very well)!

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The Mulberry Bird

We read the original version to our adopted daughter until she was old enough to read it herself. She's now 22 yrs old and still calls this book her favorite book. It obviously struck a chord with her. Her adoption was a closed adoption---she's from Korea.

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Although she loves her baby very much, a young mother bird gives him up for adoption because she is unable to give him the home which he needs.

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