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How does a woman go from a normal Midwestern mom to sitting across the table from a bounty hunter? That's what Kathleen English Cadmus wondered as she took one more surreal step in her quest to find and save her teenage daughter, Laura. The beautiful baby Kathleen had adopted from Korea was on the run again, fueled by another manic episode brought on by her bipolar disorder. Having already lost her son Shawn to a tragic accident, Kathleen couldn't bear the thought that she had failed to protect another one of her children.

In Happily, popular TikTok influencers Steven and Ashley Evans share their infertility journey and their story of adoption while under the watchful eye of social media with heartfelt vulnerability, candor, and grace.

Harrowing, heart-breaking and often horrific were the challenges that confronted Marvin after his birth in prison. Born in distress, Marvin was wrenched from his drug-addicted parents and deposited into an orphanage. In this inspirational memoir, Marvin searches for his birth parents and battles his crack addiction with the help of the woman he loves, determined to start a family and to live his life crime and drug free.

Jack Rocco was a baby when he was adopted by a blue-collar, Italian American family. Today a successful orthopedic surgeon, Jack’s identity was built around his Italian heritage, and while he knew the story of his “Gotday,” he didn’t know the story of his birth day. His was a closed adoption, and he only knew that his birth parents were a young couple—an Italian father and a German Irish mother—who couldn’t afford a child.

Slavná kniha ze zlatého fondu světové literatury. Poprvé vyšla v roce 1972, stala se bestsellerem i předlohou animovaného filmu, seriálu a několika počítačových her. „Sem tam některý panáčkoval na vrcholku mraveniště, s nastraženýma ušima se rozhlížel kolem a větřil. Ale nerušený zpěv kosa na pokraji lesa zvěstoval, že odtamtud nebezpečí nehrozí.“ Nebezpečí však přichází s člověkem a jeho plány postavit domy na území obývaném sandlefordskou králičí kolonií.

Belonging Matters is meant to support the adoption community, while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption.

In 1974, Liz Harvie – born Claire Elaine Watts – was given up for adoption by her birth mother Yvonne. Claire was just eight weeks old when her adoptive parents took her in – and renamed her Elizabeth. Although brought up in a ‘perfect’ household, the emotional – and physical – trauma of being taken from her biological mother would never leave Liz. She constantly wondered: what does my real mum look like? Will she come back for me? Why did she abandon me?

Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father White. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early 20s was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity. Though the two share a physical likeness, an affinity for ice cream, and a relationship that sometimes even feels familial, there is an ever-present tension between them, as a decades-long tug-of-war pits her birth mother’s desire for anonymity against Ito’s need to know her origins, to see and be seen.

Mabel Nummerdor groeit op bij haar moeder en stiefvader. Nooit wordt er een woord gesproken over haar biologische vader, maar als student ontdekt ze dat ze het resultaat is van een kortstondige ontmoeting tijdens een zomervakantie aan de Franse westkust. Pas jaren later begint het te knagen: moet ze niet op zoek voor het te laat is? Mabel besluit het tv-programma Spoorloos in te schakelen. De aflevering waarin ze haar Franse vader Jacques voor het eerst ontmoet, trekt meer dan een miljoen kijkers.

In CCEF's Helping Your Adopted Child: Understanding Your Child's Unique Identity you'll learn from counselor and adoptive father Paul David Tripp how to help adopted children understand their identity and place in God's world.

Open up this memory box to reveal one woman's memoir of forced adoption, loss and self-loathing. Locked away for years, these memories have now found their voice as Yvonne Tomlinson bravely shares Memory Boxes with the world. Through raw honesty and unwavering courage, Yvonne invites readers to explore the contents of her memory boxes, revealing the resilience and strength that have carried her through the darkest of times.

It was 1947 in Celina, Ohio, when Dr. Ralph Beare and his wife, Lou, childless and in their early forties, adopted a four-and-a-half-month-old orphan. “Janice” knew she was adopted, because her mommy read her a book about how the Beare's chose her out of a Home. "We chose you, but we love you as if you were our own." However, her mother never seemed to forget she was adopted, especially on Mother’s Day, when she couldn’t look at Janice without crying.

Hoy conozco la importancia de ser sincera conmigo misma y de seguir los dictados del corazón. Cuando yo tomé la decisión de buscar ami madre biológica, ya nada podía detenerme. La meta estaba definida y trabajé para llegar a ella. "Con valentía Carolina entrega su historia. Nos cuenta del...

El deseo más grande del mundo habla a las mujeres que tienen el deseo de ser madres y no podemos o no pueden. También es la historia, contada en primera persona, de la autora y de otras nueve mujeres que proyectan embarazos que no llegan o que se detienen, entre esperas dilatadas, tratamientos...

Het bijzondere en aangrijpende verhaal over de zoektocht van Mischa Blok naar haar biologische moeder in Zuid-Korea, dat de lezer diep zal raken. Een kindje wordt te vondeling gelegd op een pleintje in Zuid-Korea, met op haar kleding een briefje waar haar naam en haar geboortedatum op staan. Ze wordt gevonden, naar het kindertehuis gebracht en geadopteerd door Nederlandse ouders. Een prachtig verhaal, strik eromheen, klaar. Maar zevenendertig jaar later blijkt dit verhaal niet te kloppen.

Everybody knows what adoption is, but adoption has changed dramatically over recent decades. Open adoptions create an opportunity for biological parents to remain connected with the child even after the adoption takes place. Emotionally, this is still largely uncharted territory for everybody involved and relationships can be difficult to navigate. Told from the point of view of an adoptive father, the journey the Elkins took is such a roller coaster ride you would think this true story was fiction.

Everybody knows what adoption is, but adoption has changed dramatically over recent decades. Open adoptions create an opportunity for biological parents to remain connected with the child even after the adoption takes place. Emotionally, this is still largely uncharted territory for everybody involved and relationships can be difficult to navigate. Told from the point of view of an adoptive father, the journey the Elkins took is such a roller coaster ride you would think this true story was fiction.

Everybody knows what adoption is, but adoption has changed dramatically over recent decades. Open adoptions create an opportunity for biological parents to remain connected with the child even after the adoption takes place. Emotionally, this is still largely uncharted territory for everybody involved and relationships can be difficult to navigate. Told from the point of view of an adoptive father, the journey the Elkins took is such a roller coaster ride you would think this true story was fiction.

Everybody knows what adoption is, but adoption has changed dramatically over recent decades. Open adoptions create an opportunity for biological parents to remain connected with the child even after the adoption takes place. Emotionally, this is still largely uncharted territory for everybody involved and relationships can be difficult to navigate. Told from the point of view of an adoptive father, the journey the Elkins took is such a roller coaster ride you would think this true story was fiction.

A raw, often wry, memoir of mothers, mysteries, and miracles. Surrendered at birth in a closed adoption, Candi Byrne’s biology and ethnicity is a secret. The impending arrival of her first grandchild ignites an urgency to identify potential genetic time bombs and confirm her ancestry. Due to arcane privacy laws, Candi is repeatedly denied access to the one person who could provide that information—her biological mother.