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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My Other Heart
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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
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
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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
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
Secret Daughter
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

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Robert A. Heinlein
Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow
Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

Jodi Picoult
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It w ...more
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

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