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All Molly wants is somewhere she can feel safe… After her mother is charged with drugs and neglect, six-year-old Molly arrives at Casey and Mike's as an emergency placement, carrying secrets no child should have to keep. But just as Molly begins to trust Casey, a heartbreaking event and the...

What kind of mother gives up her son? Bernadette Murphy grew up the “miracle child” of her immigrant Irish Catholic family, arriving unexpectedly after her mother’s difficulty conceiving and her parents’ adoption of her older brother. Three more siblings followed, and as her once-glamorous mother sank deeper into depression, and her father struggled to support the family, Bernadette was forced to grow up quickly and care for her brothers and sister.

An adoptive parent and historian delves into the differences of families made by law, not biology-- and shows us the deep value of those differences Adoption touches on some of our most vexing social questions, about race and sexuality, abortion rights, economic inequality, even foreign policy...

Read by the author. Hospitality is not just something you do. Hospitality is who you become. As a teenager in the foster-care system, Tori Hope Petersen believed that she was unwanted and unloved, and her heart hardened toward God. Then her foster mom brought her to a church that took the call...

When a child you love suddenly comes to live with you, everything changes overnight. Still Family is a gentle, practical guide for grandparents, aunts, uncles, older siblings and family friends who have stepped in to raise a child, and who now have to find their way through family time, divided...

What lengths would you go to to save a troubled little girl? A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is a deeply personal memoir from foster carer Angela Hart. It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted...

Ao contrário do que muitos pensam, não é a educação baseada na “dureza”, na falta de apego e com menos zelo que gera, no futuro, um adulto mais forte. A Neurociência já provou que esse tipo de criação tende a formar adultos feridos, carregados de traumas e acostumados a engolir todos os tipos de sentimento.

Are you parenting in a constant state of vigilance? Do you love your child deeply, yet feel terrified, exhausted, or ashamed to admit how unsafe, overwhelmed, or broken you feel?When foster or adoptive parenting moves beyond “challenging” into violence, sexualized behaviors, suicidal...

Maggie Hartley is one of the UK's most prolific foster mothers. This inspiring collection includes three heartbreaking, true short stories about the children who have passed through Maggie's care. A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS A tragic accident leaves the life of toddler Edward changed forever and his...

When Shantanu left for the United States, the promise of a new life felt quiet, isolating and cold.Then Winter arrived. A puppy adopted selfishly.Shantanu did not realize how much this decision would shape his life.Everyone loves their dogs, naturally. Every dog is a good boy, naturally. But...

I was four months old when I was adopted, taken from an orphanage and placed into what was supposed to be a loving family. But love had conditions. Survival had rules. And silence was the price of staying. By sixteen, I had already learned how to disappear—into alcohol, into drugs, into the arms of men who didn’t care if I made it out alive. By eighteen, I was a mother, barely keeping my head above water, raising a child while still a child myself. When I got pregnant again at twenty-one, I knew one thing for sure: I wasn’t going to drag another innocent life into my chaos.

In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Congress, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program, which would facilitate the migration of tens...

A mother is told her newborn has died, and she goes home to grieve. The baby is alive – and has just been sold. In 2021, two young women in the country of Georgia learned they were twin sisters, separated at birth and raised apart. Their mother had been told both of her daughters died in the hospital. They hadn't. They had been taken and sold, and the paperwork was forged so she would never go looking. Weird Darkness podcast host Darren Marlar started with that one case and kept finding it – in a dozen countries, across nearly a hundred years.

"One life I’ve lived was liminal—I was not what I had been, but I had yet to become what I will be.” In her memoir Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks, Ashley McLain moves from an adopted child in 1970s Dallas to a pioneering environmental consultant who co-founded and sold a thriving company. At 53, she found the courage to search for her biological family, confronting questions of identity, belonging, and what it means to define “enough.

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN. Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth? Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on...

'It's all my fault, I was supposed to be looking after her!' After suffering domestic abuse from her boyfriend, teen mum Sherrie has her four-month-old daughter Maisy sent to live with Maggie. Torn between being protective of Maisy and heartbroken for Sherrie, Maggie is unsure what to do. In the...

BELIEVING IN AN INVISIBLE GOD. How to Hear God’s Voice in the Middle of Your Doubt. What if the God you’ve been doubting has been speaking all along—just waiting for you to listen? You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to have it all figured out. And you definitely don’t have to pretend you’ve never questioned everything. If you’ve ever whispered, “God, are You even real?”—this book is for you. Christine Pilgrim invites you into her messy, hilarious, and miraculous journey from skepticism to unshakable faith.

At twenty-seven years old, Andrew Wullaert received a phone call that changed everything. A woman on the other end of the line introduced herself as his full-blooded biological sister. What followed was a journey through questions he thought he had already answered. Questions about identity. Belonging. Family. Rejection. Gratitude. And ultimately, who gets to decide what your life means after emotionally complicated things happen to you before you are old enough to understand them.

Twenty years ago, Carol Atherton and her husband, Matthew stood together on the doorstep of a suburban house waiting to meet the small, red-headed toddler who would soon be woven into the fabric of their lives. But that moment was only one of many thresholds they crossed on their journey to...

"After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage" is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology, Monardo writes from both sides of the ocean, charting her grandfathers’ immigration to a Pittsburgh steel town; her father’s WWII as a medical student in Naples; the family’s marriages—including her own—that were tainted by an Old World curse; and an unlikely path toward international adoption.