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Author: Patricia Johnston
Rating: Votes: 2516
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Price: RRP: $26.95 Now: $21.65
A replacement for two earlier award-winning books, Adopting after Infertility (1992) and Launching a Baby’s Adoption (1996), Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families speaks to a new audience–GenX and GenY–and to all who are family-challenged–infertile couples, singles and same gender couples–about the reality of adoption in the 21st century.Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families’s four parts take readers through the core issues of being family-challenged and making good decisions about resolving those losses and then realistically introduces them to the core issues that will make adoption unique and challenging for them and for their potential children for a lifetime. After these two sections, readers should know whether adoption is a good path for them.Parts III and IV then take would-be adopters through the process of choosing a style and place and services providers for adopting, offers them practical advice on preparing emotionally and physically for the transition to parenting, teaching attachment skills, and provides support and preparation for the first year after arrival.
With guidance from the acknowledged expert in the field, this book will help you and your family make the decisions that are right for you.(Hardcover, 400+ pages, rev. 2007)
Reviews:
Pat Johnston has the unique ability to understand
the feelings of a person struggling with infertility and has once again shown why she is the authority on infertility and adoption resources. Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families is a wonderful tool that will help many people trying to make the transition from the emotional burdens of infertility to adoption. I would recommend this book for my infertility patients, regardless of where they are in the treatment process.
Jeffrey L. Deaton, M.D.
Reproductive Endocrinologist
Premier Fertility Center, North Carolina
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9/07… Having placed my son for adoption almost a decade ago, only through Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families have I come to know and respect the dragons faced by my sons adoptive parents. Underlying this book is a great how-to guide for communication in marriages and partnerships, whether the issue faced is infertility or who cleans what when! Through Pat Johnston’s insight, expertise, and personal experience in the fields of adoption and infertility, she brings knowledge and understanding to a diverse audience of readers from infertile couples and singles, to their children, to supportive family members and friends, to parents considering placement and birthparents who stand on the other side of the adoption process, to the media and general public. Certainly, a “must read.”
Courtney Lewis
Birthmother and Adoption Advocate
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8/2007…As I finished reading Pat Johnston’s new
book "Adopting Sound Choices, Strong Families", I
felt as if I had just found “Adoptipedia”. Johnston leaves no rock unturned as she takes readers through a journey which begins long before people even know or realize that they may have an adoption journey. She examines every single issue mentioned in adoption literature; I found each page filled with valuable information for those individuals considering adoption. This well integrated piece of work is a ”must read” for anyone thinking about adopting; it should be mandatory reading for all professionals who work within the adoption arena. Johnston illuminates issues well beyond those typically addressed in
pre-adoptive training. This will become a handbook for those exploring adoption and for those working with them. I highly recommend this book!
Gregory C. Keck ,Ph.D.
Founder/Director of the Attachment & Bonding Center of Ohio
Co-author of Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the Hurt Child
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Touched both personally and professionally by adoption for over three decades, Pat Johnston brings to her newest work, Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families, wise direction and thorough
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