Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.

This work provides a deeper understanding of how the adoption process works and supports children with the feelings they have about adoption. Mental health inte

First-person accounts by birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children examines how adoption, including open and multiracial adoption, impacts individua

Sixteen essays ranging from lyric essays to narrative journalism address how we make sense of what we cannot know, how we make change in the world, how we heal,

Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts. This book provides parents and professionals with sound advice on how to communica