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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
Beneath the Tapestry devotional walks alongside hopeful adoptive
parents and families through the process of adoption and beyond.
Natalie Schram shares her family's stories of completing their
first home study, finding adoption experts to support them, walking
through the tangled mess of fear and unknowns, battling through
spiritual warfare, experiencing unsightly beauty, and navigating
life after placement. Beneath the Tapestry shares many details of
how God weaved four adoptions into the masterpieces that they are.
It's through these honest stories that many have found hope and
healing. Natalie shares how each adoption holds unique details all
their own, but the universal characteristic in every adoption is
that it comes from a broken place and therefore carries that
brokenness with it. Beneath the Tapestry reveals as many details
about the Schram's adoption journeys as possible and in a very
real, honest, unique, and vulnerable way. Natalie Schram draws you
in and speaks to you directly. You will feel as if you are in an
actual conversation with her. You will be guided and supported
through scripture, real life stories, and prayer as Natalie teaches
you to love and live selflessly through the process. Journeying
through adoption four times has allowed the Schram family the joy
of growing deeper in Christ while seeking God's Will for expanding
their family. Beneath the Tapestry goes beyond offering support
during the adoption journey and seeks to reach the heart of the
reader. Through Beneath the Tapestry Natalie's hopeful prayer is
for each reader to seek a deeper relationship with Christ, grow in
their faith, and learn how to love and support others selflessly,
in the midst of their journey
Please let me introduce you to Judith AM Denton. Placed in Foster
Care at the age of 9, growing up through the system, Judith
experienced exclusions from School and College, a run in with the
Law, and then as a Care Leaver, she experienced a period of poor
Mental Health. But thankfully her story doesn't end there....
This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources
to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth
century to the present day. It is, primarily, a social history
which places the voices of people directly touched by foster care
at the centre of the story, but also within the wider social and
political debates which have shaped foster care across more than a
century. The book confronts foster care's difficult past-death and
abuse of foster children, family separation, and a general public
apathy towards these issues-but it also acknowledges the resilience
of people who have survived a childhood in foster care, and the
challenges faced by those who have worked hard to provide good
foster homes and to make child welfare systems better. These are
themes which the book examines from an Australian perspective, but
which often resonate with foster care globally.
This book illuminates the hidden history of South Korean birth
mothers involved in the 60-year-long practice of transnational
adoption. The author presents a performance-based ethnography of
maternity homes, a television search show, an internet forum, and
an oral history collection to develop the concept of virtual
mothering, a theoretical framework in which the birth mothers'
experiences of separating from, and then reconnecting with, the
child, as well as their painful,ambivalent narratives of adoption
losses, are rendered, felt and registered. In this, the author
refuses a universal notion of motherhood. Her critique of
transnational adoption and its relentless effects on birth mothers'
lives points to the everyday, normalized, gendered violence against
working-class, poor, single mothers in South Korea's modern
nation-state development and illuminates the biopolitical functions
of transnational adoption in managing an "excess" population.
Simultaneously, her creative analysis reveals a counter-public, and
counter-history, proposing the collective grievances of birth
mothers.
A scared little boy who just wants his mummy back. A grieving
father struggling to cope. And a loving foster carer determined to
help them heal. A heartbreaking true story perfect for fans of
Cathy Glass, Casey Watson, Angela Hart and Rosie Lewis. ***** A
TRUE STORY BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MAGGIE HARTLEY
Quiet and polite, obsessively neat, clean and tidy, eight-year-old
Tom is unlike any child Maggie has ever fostered before. Tom has
been taken into care following concerns that his dad is struggling
to cope after the death of Tom's mum. At first, Maggie doesn't know
what to make of this shy, nervous little boy who never cries and is
terrified of getting dirty. But as Tom's cleaning rituals start to
get more extreme, Maggie fears that there's something more sinister
going on beneath the surface. When she meets Tom's dad Mark, a
stern ex-soldier and strict disciplinarian, it's clear that Tom's
life at home without his mummy has been a constant battlefield. Can
Maggie help Mark to raise a son and not a soldier? Or will little
Tom lose his daddy too? An uplifting and ultimately redemptive
story by Sunday Times bestselling foster carer Maggie Hartley.
Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, Casey Watson, Angela Hart and
Rosie Lewis.
Adoption has changed hugely in the past few decades. These days,
most children placed with adoptive families are not babies; by the
time they meet their new parents they may have been exposed to a
range of traumatic experience - in utero, within their birth
families and within the state care system. Exposure to drugs or
alcohol in the womb and abuse in early childhood are increasingly
known to have significant effects on a child's psychological and
relational development. The effects can endure throughout the whole
of their life, regardless of the loving care and stability they
receive in their adoptive home. This poses very real challenges for
people stepping forward into the role of adoptive parent. Unlike
most books on adoption, Inside Adoption is written by someone who
has both worked within the adoption `industry' and is an adoptive
parent himself. Philip Teasdale describes here his own experience,
along with his wife Anne, of adopting Jemma as a baby. This is the
story of the difficult and traumatising years that followed, as
they struggled to provide a loving home around their emotionally
volatile and often violent adoptive daughter. It also describes the
failure of the statutory services to provide support for the family
and psychological help for Jemma to enable her to manage her
personal demons and impulses. Teasdale brings to this first-person
account an insightful analysis and critique of the adoption process
as it has developed over the past two decades, highlighting its
abject failure to acknowledge significant social trends in any
meaningful way. There is, he argues, still too little funding going
into the post-adoption period; adoptive parents are still left to
sink or swim as best they can, while the statutory agencies tick
the box for another child `placed' and wash their hands of further
responsibility.
This comprehensive resource offers a detailed framework for
fostering resilience in families caring for their older members.
Its aim is to improve the quality of life for both the caregivers
themselves as much as for those they support. Robust interventions
are presented to guide family members through chronic and acute
challenges in areas such as emotional health, physical comfort,
financial aspects of care, dealing with health systems, and
adjusting to transition. Examples, models, interviews, and an
extended case study identify core concerns of caregiving families
and avenues for nurturing positive adaptation. Throughout,
contributors provide practical applications for therapists and
other service providers in diverse disciplines, and for advancing
family resilience as a field. Included in the coverage: Therapeutic
interventions for caregiving families. Facilitating older adults'
resilience through meeting nutritional needs. Improving ergonomics
for the safety, comfort, and health of caregivers. Hope as a coping
resource for caregiver resilience and well-being. Perspectives on
navigating care transitions with individuals with dementia.
Planning for and managing costs related to caregiving. Family
Caregiving offers a new depth of knowledge and real-world utility
to social workers, mental health professionals and practitioners,
educators and researchers in the field of family resilience, as
well as scholars in the intersecting disciplines of family studies,
human development, psychology, sociology, social work, education,
law, and medicine.
The 'mixed race' classification is known to be a factor of
disadvantage in children's social care and this fastest growing
population is more likely than any other ethnic group to experience
care admission. How does knowledge of 'mixedness' underpin policy
and practice? How, when and why is the classification 'mixed' a
disadvantage? Through narrative interviews with children currently
in foster care, Fostering Mixed Race Children examines the impact
of care processes on children's everyday experiences. Peters shows
how the 'mixed race' classification affects care admission,
including both short and long term fostering and care leaving, and
shapes the experiences of children in often adverse ways. The book
moves away from the psychologising of 'mixedness' towards a
much-needed sociological analysis of 'mixedness' and 'mixing' at
the intersection of foster care processes. This book will be of
interest to academics and practitioners working with families and
children. Peters presents a child-centred narrative focus and
offers unique insights into a complex area.
This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and
un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice.
Whereas most studies on transnational adoption concentrate on the
adoptive family, the author identifies not only the happy occasion
when a family gains a child, but also the sorrow and loss of the
child to its family of origin. Situating transnational adoption in
the context of the Global North-South divide, Hogbacka investigates
the devastating effects of unequal life chances and asymmetrical
power relations on the adoption process and on the mothers whose
children are adopted. Based on unique primary material gathered in
in-depth interviews with South African families of origin and
Finnish adoptive families, the book investigates the
decision-making processes of both sets of parents and the
encounters between them. The first mothers' narratives are
juxtaposed with those of the adopters and of the adoption social
workers who act on the principles of the wider adoption system.
Concluding with a critique of the Global Northism that exemplifies
current practices, Hogbacka sketches the contours of a more just
approach to transnational adoption that would shatter rather than
perpetuate inequality. The book can also be read as an expose of
the consequences of current inequalities for poor families. Global
Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption will be of interest
to students and scholars of adoption studies, family and kinship,
sociology, anthropology, social work and development.
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