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Resources: Books for Parents
|  | Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew –
Written by Sherrie Eldridge. This book serves as a guide to the
complex emotions that can be found inside the adoptive home and inside
the adoptive child’s heart. It provides insight from children, parents
and professionals, as well as practical strategies that help the
adopted child feel loved. |  | Dim Sum, Bagels and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families -
Written by Myra Alperson. A complete guide to sources of books,
periodicals, clothing, foods and toys that celebrate cultural
diversity. Other resources are support groups for both parents and
kids, plus guidelines on how families can create new traditions and
alternative approaches. |  | Being Adopted:
The Lifelong Search for Self – Written by David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall
D. Schecter, and Robin Marantz Henig. Readers, regardless of how they
are touched by adoption, will find this 1992 release balanced in the
way it presents how adoption affects individuals throughout their lives. |  | Raising Adopted Children -
Written by Lois Ruskai Melina. A comprehensive discussion of issues
and situations that are likely to arise in adoptive families from the
time of placement, including the adjustment of parents and children,
bonding and attachment, and the psychological impact of adoption and
infertility. |
| Real Parents, Real Children
- Written by Holly Van Gulden and Lisa Bartels-Robb This book explains
not only what your children are thinking and feeling about their
adoption, but also when and how to talk with them from early childhood
into their young adulthood. A good book for prospective adoptive
parents preparing for your child’s arrival as well as throughout your
child’s growing up years.
|  | The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned
Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past –
Written by Karin Evans. This book is both a compelling personal
narrative and an evocative portrait of contemporary China. The
real-life stories behind the statistics weave together the tales of the
children with the mystery of their anonymous Chinese families who
remain in the shadows. Exploring the emotional and political
complexities that create families across the boundaries of culture and
geography. |
| Inside Transracial Adoption:
Strength Based, Culture Sensitizing Parenting Strategies for Inter
Country or Domestic Adoptive Families That Don't Match – Written by
Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall. This book provides information,
resources and practical tools to support families in fostering the
development of racial identity of children of color and in the
strengthening of family connections.
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| Launching a Baby's Adoption:
Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals - Launching a Baby's
Adoption which encourages bonding and attachment beginning with a kind
of "adoptive pregnancy" and infant parenting course for those whose
child will arrive at under a year of age.
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| Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft:
Written by Mary Hopkins Best. A thorough, positive and insightful
reading on what to know before deciding to adopt a toddler, and how to
ease the process of bringing the toddler-aged child into your home. The
Weaver's Craft for those whose children will arrive between the ages of
15 months and four years of age.
|  | Attaching in Adoption:
Practical Tools for Today's Parents Written by Deborah D. Gray. Helps
parents understand how prior experiences and changes in caregivers,
culture and language can create challenges for children needing to form
attachments to their new parents. Includes advice about how to obtain
proper diagnosis, various approaches to parenting, and how to find a
therapist experienced in challenges facing these families. |  | Touchpoints: Your Child’s Emotional and Behavioral Development– Written by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. (also includes, Touchpoints: Three to Six
with Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D.). The only childcare reference by a
pediatrician who has both medical and psychoanalytic training, and who
offers parents a complete understanding of child development from a
physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral point of view.
Although, Dr. Brazelton does not address adoption, as it relates to
child development, this is a wonderful reference for any parent to gain
knowledge about their child’s development. |
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