num_pages: 336
description:  My mommy didn't carry me in her tummy she carried me in her heart. Bailey a 5-years old who was adopted from China. Her story is included in this book.According to People magazine parents from all over the country seek adoption expert and Worldwide Orphans Foundation founder Dr. Jane Aronsons help as if consulting a master detective. Angelina Jolie praised Dr. Aronsons drive and ambition to help children dream (Elle). Indeed over the course of the past three decades Dr. Aronson has touched the lives of thousands of adopted children from around the world and in this inspiring book she presents moving first-person testimonies from parents (and a few children themselves) whose lives have been blessed by adoption. Divided into thematic sectionssuch as The Decision The Journey and The Moment We Met)each prefaced by Dr. Aronson this book introduces readers to Claude Knobler a writer from Los Angeles whose journey to Ethiopia to adopt his son led to an unexpectedly moving encounter with the boys courageous birthmother; actor Mary Louise-Parker whose older adopted sons bond with her newly adopted baby daughter was deep and unwavering from the instant the two children met; and Lynn Danzker an entrepreneur who set off alone to adopt her son Cole and in the process met and married her husband. The authors of these testimonies range from doctors to filmmakers from financial consultants to celebritiesall of them bound by their moving and transformative experience as adoptive parents. 
language: English
title: Carried in Our Hearts: The Gift of Adoption: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents
publisher: Tarcher