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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In this heartwarming and hilarious memoir, Claude Knobler describes how he learned the hard way that the apple actually can fall far from the tree-and that's Okay. Already the biological parents of a seven-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, Claude Knobler and his wife decided to adopt Nati, a five-year-old Ethiopian boy who seemed different from Knobler in every conceivable way. After more than five years spent trying to turn his wild, silly,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book orients parents and communities of black children, including white adoptive parents, to the particular challenges and inequalities race brings to childhood. The authors present research, insight, and their own experience to guide parents to challenges related to education, health, safety, self-esteem, and community building"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that her dream is coming true, Monroe faces trials that befall her not just as a single mother but as a white mother of a black child. In On the Outskirts...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Relates how the author and her husband adopted a six-month-old boy from South Korea and the lessons they had to learn as parents, including how to incorporate aspects of another culture and how to discuss birth parents with their son.
39) Change of plans
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A free-spirited musician and her fighter pilot husband become the legal guardians of four children, three of them adopted from third-world countries and quickly learn to parent this instant family and help the kids deal with the culture clash of life in America.
40) Change of plans
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A free-spirited musician and her fighter pilot husband become the legal guardians of four children, three of them adopted from third-world countries.
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