Adoption

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents, and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents. Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. ...more

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We Burned So Bright
Where the Girls Were
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Accidentally on Purpose
Looking for Jane
Michael Without Apology
My Other Heart
The Boy from the Sea
Where the Girls Were
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
The Book of Kindness
August Blue
The Museum of Failures
The Original Daughter
Appalachian Song
When We Were More (Aron Falls #1)
Loved and Missed
All You Can Ever Know
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
Before We Were Yours
Orphan Train
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
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Little Fires Everywhere
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
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A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
Secret Daughter
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66 books — 15 voters



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Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.
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They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
Jane Green, Another Piece of My Heart

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