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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Adoption & tracing birth parents
'A dark, gritty, and compulsive read' Daily Express
Nineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the
hospital once again. It's nothing new, it's happened before and
it'll happen again. But when DI Laura Kesey introduces Sally to a
new social worker, she finds hope at a local women's domestic
violence refuge, where she's surrounded by women just like her. But
then a man is mowed down in a hit and run. Soon a second suspicious
death follows. Both deaths link back to the refuge. Has Sally found
a safe place or a new danger? *Please note this is a re-release of
The Sisters*
In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine
to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of delays
while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to Canada as
a proud new family of four. Now what? In Detachment, Mierau probes
not only the process of adoption but what comes after--the
challenges of becoming a family, the strain on his marriage. While
his son acts out and gets in trouble at school, Mierau feels
removed, detached, thinking instead about his own emotionally
distant father. Also born in Ukraine, Mierau's Mennonite father has
a traumatic and mysterious past of his own. If Mierau can come to
understand his father's life, perhaps he can start to make sense of
his new sons... Detachment is a moving, darkly funny, and searingly
unsentimental memoir about learning to become a father and a son.
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A Home for Us
(Paperback)
J.J. Phillips, Kai Phillips; Lashundra S Bradley
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R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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When you decide to foster, you are faced with many difficult
decisions, dilemmas and questions: How do you navigate the daily
struggles of foster parenting? How can you nurture bonds with your
foster child who is angry, sad, and defiant? How can you prepare to
step back when it's time to let go? Foster Parenting Step-by-Step
is a concise how-to guide to fostering that summarizes what to
expect as a foster parent, and gives immediate practical solutions.
It outlines the different stages of a fostering relationship,
raising common issues encountered at each age and how to tackle
them. It also explains the impact of trauma on your child: how this
can show itself through challenging behavior and how to respond to
it. This book will provide fostering parents with the skills and
knowledge to support the needs of the children in foster care. It
will be invaluable not just to foster parents but also to those
professionals supporting foster placements.
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Now I Belong
(Hardcover)
Laremi A Martino; Illustrated by Karen C O'Driscoll
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R525
R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
Save R93 (18%)
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Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John
DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can
be, having parented over 40 children. At times he and his wife,
Kelly, have cared for up to nine children at a time, many with
severe trauma and learning difficulties. Love and Mayhem is an
honest and open account of the struggles, sadness and joy that
comes with the job of being a parent to a traumatized child. From
the sleepless nights with babies withdrawing from drug-addiction,
to the heartbreak when a child moves on to another home, and the
loving chaos that comes with a large and blended family, John
DeGarmo fights for the many children who have come through his
home. Ideal for foster families, general readers, fostering
agencies and social workers who are looking for a true to life
memoir of what it really is to be a foster parent.
The children of The Adoption Club have lots of different feelings
about adoption. Michael was scared when he first met this adopted
family, and was worried his adoptive family might not keep him.
Other children talk about feeling happy, sad and angry, and how
feeling can make them behave strangely. This workbook gives
children a way to sort out feelings, discuss them and feel better.
Written for counsellors and therapists working with children aged
5-11, as well as adoptive parents, this workbook is designed to
help children to explore their feelings and behavior. It is one of
a set of five interactive therapeutic workbooks featuring The
Adoption Club written to address the key emotional and
psychological challenges adopted children often experience.
Together, they provide an approachable, interactive and playful way
to help children to learn about themselves and have fun at the same
time.
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