Product Description: The first comprehensive book that offers invaluable step-by-step advice for families with donor-conceived children.Wendy Kramer, founder and director of the Donor Sibling Registry, and Naomi Cahn, family and reproductive law professor, have compiled a comprehensive and thorough guide for the growing community of families with donor-conceived children...read more

Product Description: I swore I would never let my birthmother into my life, but then Mom died of ovarian cancer and my birthmother, Val, found me through the obituary. Hard to argue with fate. Harder still to let go of childhood promises. This memoir explores what it is to be a mom and what it is to lose one...read more

Product Description: What do you say to a mother you've never seen? "Gathering the Missing Pieces in an Adopted Life" brims cover to cover with true stories of trial and triumph in the search for birth families by adoptees. Written by an adopted Pulitzer Prize nominee...read more

Product Description: Bestselling author Craig Hickman had had enough of the secrets and cover-ups and lies and was determined to solve the mystery of his roots. A brilliant and inspirational vision of love and spirituality, "Fumbling Toward Divinity: The Adoption Scriptures" chronicles his quest for his birth heritage and the aftermath in a one-of-a-kind, ambitious, and stunning new memoir...read more

Product Description: Book by Minniti, Jennifer

The author shares her story of being found by her birth parents and the process of working through her very conflicted emotions to come to terms with the complexities of family relationships

A sensitive guide to the adoption process uses real-life stories to prepare adoptees for the often turbulent process of a reunion with birth parents and includes a list of valuable resources to help readers with their search, support groups, and Web sites. Original. (view table of contents)

The author retells the story of his father's life as an adopted child on a Midwestern farm during the Depression, including his difficult relationship with abusive adoptive parents and his successful search for his birthmother (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this updated edition, Norma Tillman describes the methods she has used to find thousands of people using the latest information and resources. This new edition contains updated information on adoption laws, support group addresses, and how to use the Internet. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Advises those who were adopted as children how to organize a search for their natural parents and reviews each state's legal considerations and records centers (view table of contents)

Offers resources for conducting a search for a missing relative, and covers the emotional as well as the practical issues one may encounter

Members of adoption triangles—adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents—must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-discovery outweigh another's wish for confidentiality? In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by their biological families.Wegar begins by considering the historical and legal development of adoption and of sealed-records policies, showing how kinship ideology, the helping professions, and gender issues intersect to frame adoption policies and the ongoing debate. Drawing on articles in social work and mental health journals, activist newsletters, and autobiographies by search activists, as well as on popular images of adoption portrayed in talk shows and other media, she analyzes the rhetoric to reveal the unconscious biases that exist. She concludes with a discussion of ways in which adoption reformers can avoid perpetuating harmful and confining images of those who participate in adoption. (view table of contents)

A private investigator outlines legal methods for locating missing family members, birthparents, long lost friends, heirs, and deadbeat dads, and uses examples from her own experience to offer tips on how to approach individual searches

A guide for anyone affected by adoption includes guidance on making the decision to search, negotiating legalities, surviving the emotional turbulence of a reunion, and dealing with the impact on adoptive parents

Product Description: Book by Aigner, Hal

An adoptee describes how he found his birthmother and her family, his father's family, and his half-brother, the answers he found through his search, and the questions that remain

An adoptee describes how he found his birthmother and her family, his father's family, and his half-brother, the answers he found through his search, and the questions that remain