Gathering Courage: A Life-Changing Journey Through Adoption, Adversity, and a Reading Disability is an incredible, award-winning memoir that inspires hope and encouragement to those who are going through tough times. T. A. "Terry" McMullin's life transformed from a broken-hearted child with a reading disability to a distinguished educator who encourages others to achieve their greatest aspirations.
Gathering Courage is an "American Story" about faith and personal victory over adversity and heartbreaks. Braided throughout is the love for rescued animals and how they help heal hurts and encourage success. Terry's journey proves that we are not defined by our wounds but what we become after the scars heal that counts.
Terry's message is a testament to the endurance of the human spirit to survive setbacks and fulfill their own dreams despite all odds.
Terry answers the question, "How do some people find success despite hardships?" Her simple 'down to earth' personality with an enduring message will resonate through the heart and soul of each reader - young or old.
Описание: Life changes when we least expect it. Sometimes bad is not as bad as we expect and good is far better. That's what this journey story is about. It has everything to do with dreams and far-fetched ideas and stories. It is about finding unexpected life in a world that seems to have gone wrong. What happens when, one day a fifty-year-old woman with failing health believes she hears God tell her to adopt a child? Then what if, after deciding not to tell her husband, that same night her husband tells her that he has heard from God too, about the same thing? I am that fifty-year-old woman. After deciding that this was more than coincidence, my husband and I began a journey no one in our family will ever forget. Against the odds, miracle after miracle eventually led us to adopt not one but two little girls from China. The journey continued when we got back home. We weren't the only ones that God had been talking to
This true story is about a German girl who was born a baroness and later became a "princess." She was adopted into a loving American family, lived in Germany half of her childhood and later became a naturalized American citizen. As she began reflecting upon her life and searching for her biological roots, surprises unfolded, miracles happened and patterns developed that revealed a common thread weaving the tapestry of her life.
Ann Kief and her husband live in Santa Rosa Beach, FL. Her professional life was mainly focused on education, leadership and college administration. She taught at the university, college and grade school levels as well as in numerous parks and recreation settings. She has written professionally, as well as dabbled in writing children's literature. Her greatest joy and fulfillment, however, has been as a wife, mother and grandmother.
Автор: Adler Yael Название: From Gypsy to Jersey: An Adoption Journey ISBN: 1735018422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735018423 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2941.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From Gypsy to Jersey, chronicles how my parents came to adopt me from Romania and how, all these years later, I followed the trail to my birth mother and made the journey back to Romania to connect with my Roma (Gypsy) family and roots.
Автор: Ankerfelt Sally, Swift Gayle H. Название: Reimagining Adoption: What Adoptees Seek from Families and Faith ISBN: 1733659722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733659727 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1510.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Reimagining Adoption" examines beliefs, practices, and Scripture to distill adoption policy steeped in Christian values and attuned to the needs of vulnerable children and their families. It examines the historical practices, reviews current practices and proposes revisions. More importantly, it lifts up the words of adult adoptees--the true experts on adoption--and braids them with the insights of adoptive families to craft a new adoption paradigm. Readers will learn:
How to become better Christian parents and more supportive faith communities
How to answer tough questions and to anticipate who will pose them and why
How to clarify Christian adoption beliefs and practices
What makes adoptees the true adoption experts
How to process the pain of birth parent loss
How to validate adoptee grief and loss
How to support family preservation
How the radical love of Christ must reshape the way we approach adoption
What first-hand adoptee/adoptive family accounts can teach us about faith and adoption
How to serve vulnerable children and their families with faith, love, and understanding
If you would like a baby NOW, but things just aren't happening, hang in there -- We have the solution. Frustration, anger, jealousy, and despair are common feelings in this situation. However, holding on to these emotions too long can further impair the ability to create your family. "Getting to Baby: Creating your Family Faster, Easier and Less Expensive through Fertility, Adoption, or Surrogacy" will show you how to continue your journey with hope, optimism, and success. Jennifer and Victoria have been there and done that. The heartfelt experience that they went through for five years to create their family is touching, inspiring, and provides a lot of insight on how to create your family. Jennifer and Victoria successfully went through the fertility process and then suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks; tried adoption and held a baby for three days before returning home empty handed; and then discovered the secret of success through surrogacy. Katherine and Christopher, beautiful, healthy twins were born less than 12 months from when Jennifer and Victoria met and interviewed their surrogate. Whether you want to have your children through fertility treatments, adoption, or surrogacy, Jennifer and Victoria have learned and are sharing a lot of shortcuts that will help you save time and money. You don't have to be a celebrity to achieve your dreams of having a family, but we can learn from them by observing which options were successful for them. Nicole Kidman and Celine Dion used fertility treatments to have children. Angelina Jolie and and Rosie O'Donnell chose to adopt children. An increasing number of celebrities are now choosing surrogacy, to include Sarah Jessica Parker and Dennis Quaid. Before you continue to spend money and waste time, read "Getting to Baby: Creating your Family Faster, Easier and Less Expensive through Fertility, Adoption, or Surrogacy" and use it as a resource to successfully create the family you deserve.
Описание: The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption is a guide for those involved in adoption- domestic, international, and foster, as well as those who come to parenting via assisted reproduction-as it helps readers create and sustain a positive and workable open adoption arrangement that puts the child at the center.
Описание: On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished her for adoption to the Capobiancos without Brown’s consent. Although Brown regained custody of his daughter using the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Capobiancos, rejecting the purpose of the ICWA and ignoring the long history of removing Indigenous children from their families.
In A Generation Removed, a powerful blend of history and family stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs examines how government authorities in the post–World War II era removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s an estimated 25 to 35 percent of Indian children had been separated from their families.
Jacobs also reveals the global dimensions of the phenomenon: these practices undermined Indigenous families and their communities in Canada and Australia as well. Jacobs recounts both the trauma and resilience of Indigenous families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada.
