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Author: Micky Duxbury
Rating: Votes: 705
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Price: $19.95
Open adoption is not a trend—it is the wave of the future. Making Room in Our Hearts helps prepare for that future by providing an child-centered perspective as it puts a human face on open adoption. Adoptive parent and therapist, Micky Duxbury has produced a “must-read” for anyone considering adoption, for those experiencing it, and for the professionals that serve them. Over 150 participants in open adoption including adoptees, birth and adoptive parents offer their personal stories in this readable and well-researched book. You will meet real people revealing, as well as struggling with, the ups and downs of these complex relationships.
Making Room in Our Hearts helps the reader more fully understand the benefits and overall process of a child-centered open adoption. Duxbury addresses common fears and concerns, gives attention to siblings and other extended family, looks at openness in the foster adoption system, and discusses opening closed adoptions. Most importantly, she looks at how to help make these relationships work.
Both birth and adoptive parents will be inspired and encouraged by reading the testimony of adult adoptees who have been in open adoptions most of their lives. As one young man put it: “I think I would be confused if my birth mother was not in my life! There would be so many unanswered questions. I cannot imagine life without having this connection. My advice to adoptive and birth parents would be to put yourself in our shoes. If it were you, you would probably want to know all of who you are."
Reviews:
Susan Ito, adult adoptee and co-editor of A Ghost At Heart's Edge:Stories & Poems of Adoption: “Having been born under the closed adoption system some forty-something years ago, it was a profoundly moving experience for me to read about families—birth and adoptive families—who have come to embrace openness for their children. The adoption community is moving in a brave and important new direction, and Duxbury's book will provide a vital map for families and professionals alike. I am grateful for this work and only wish that it had been the standard of practice while I was growing up.”
Sharon Roszia, co-author of The Open Adoption Experience: “Duxbury has written an up-to-date book on the beauty and the complexity of families built through open adoption. She has integrated the knowledge provided by other experts in the field with the poignant stories of real families who have been living their open adoptions over several years. This is a book well worth reading and owning; I highly recommend it.”
Adam Pertman, Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of Adoption Nation: "Every once in a while, a book comes along that can make an honest difference in the understanding of an important subject -- and, therefore, in people's lives. I'm delighted to say that `Making Room in Our Hearts' is one of those books.”
(Paperback, 192 pages, 2006)
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