Adoption
Subtitle: choosing it, living it, loving it
By: Ray Guarendi.
Publisher: Servant Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cincinnati, OH
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780867169133
Subjects: Adoption; Adoption -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Partly personal; title: Why adoption?; title: Number, please?; title: Annual event?; title: Adoption advice worth ignoring; title: To the rescue; title: Replaceable parts?; title: Adoption overdone; title: Birth disorder; title: Too old by kindergarten; title: Unfinished business; title: Adoption special effects; title: Too much specialness?; title: The special needs list; title: A special parent; title: Not ready to be canonized; title: Assorted adoption anxieties; title: The genetic objection; title: Cracked up?; title: A house of a different color; title: Forever diagnosed?; title: Study hard; title: Not a pretty picture; title: Home for good; title: Unexpected visitors; title: Adoption resistance; title: A house divided; title: A two-hundred-grand kid; title: Three's company, four's a crowd; title: Out of the ruins; title: Too many children?; title: The Cinderella syndrome; title: Communication 101; title: Talk right; title: The adoption talk(s); title: The rejection perception; title: Looking for reassurance; title: A partly open book; title: The view from now; title: Who wants to know?; title: Adoption self-image : myths and truths; title: Is love enough?; title: The hallmark of a good family; title: I'm really good, or I was; title: The relatability factory; title: The name is bond; title: Adoption discipline basics; title: Misguided compensation; title: Equal treatment; title: Looking for greener grass; title: Totally rad; title: Adoption options; title: Who's calling, please?; title: Pretty young for your age; title: Play it again, mom; title: From here or there?; title: Temporary to permanent; title: Open or shut case; title: The cost factor; title: First steps, at last.