With this current adoption, we are required to read books about adoption. I think that is funny because we could probably write our own book. Well, I am sort of doing that in Blog form. The first book I read was The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family by Jayne E. Schooler & Thomas Atwood. While this book provided interesting insight, I found it to be a little preachy and it seemed to deter international adoptions. They go on to write that if you adopt from another country and bring that child home, you are stuck with any issues that might arise. My thought would be that that would happen either way. If you adopt a child from your home country, what would you do if they had an issue? You can't just turn the child in for a refund or trade them in for a better child. The way we feel is once we adopt that child, he or she is our child. Our inclination would be to get help for our child. We are dealing with issues that have come up from our children.
Another good book is The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evean. I read this book during our first adoption. It is a really good book. She writes about her adoption and the history of the children that had been abandoned.
Up next is International Adoptions by Magaret Haerens, book editor and Adoption Nation: How the Revolution is Transforming America by Adam Pertman. Adoption Nation looked interesting because it deals with politics and adoption, etc. International Adoptions will hopefully be an insightful book.
I will try to update this blog to give my opinion on these books. Any information that I can pass on to people considering adoption is worth it. I have to read and report on them.
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