"Revealing and much needed." -Booklist In this unflinching, unforgettable memoir, Regina Louise tells the true story of overcoming neglect in the US foster-care system. Drawing on her experience as one of society's abandoned children, she tells how she emerged from the cruel, unjust system, not only to survive, but to flourish. After years of jumping from one fleeting, often abusive home to the next, Louise meets a counselor named Jeanne Kerr. For the first time in her young life, Louise k...
Voices From The Heart - The Adoption Experience
by Dipika Maharaj Singh
America's foster care system has a noble goal-to care for children that for various reasons can no longer be cared for by their families-but years of inattention and inadequate funding have left many foster youth in a precarious state. This resource provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the American foster care system. Areas of coverage include the scaffolding of foster care systems in the various states (each of which operate their own unique systems through their social servi...
Baby Girl Memory Book / Keepsake Journal (Baby Journal, #3)
by Audrina Rose
Finding Shelley
by Carolyn D Raines M B a and Stanley E Rocklin Ph D
Bird Without Feathers
by Mike Derzack, Karen Derzack, and Cynthia Sterling
"The true headlined story of baby Byron and one foster family's fight for the child's best interest"--Jacket.
Since the mid-1970s discussion about child care policy has been dominated by the concept of `permanence' - the belief that if children in care cannot return to natural parents they should be placed, preferably for adoption, with permanent new families. Before then it was considered difficult, if not impossible, to find adoptive parents for physically or mentally handicapped children, for black children or children of mixed parentage, and for older children. Over the past ten years adoption and f...