Adopted children and adoptive parents: what to expect, how to bond, questions about birth parents and how to respond to them.
Adopt: Assistance Information Support
Adoption: Helping You Build a Family
Parenting Toolbox (For Nontraditional Parents)
Brodzinsky, David
M., Schechter, Marshall D., & Henig, Robin M.
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self. Anchor Books, 1993
Eldridge, Sherrie
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew. Dell Trade, 1999
Gabel, Susan
Filling in the Blanks: A Guided Look at Growing up Adopted. Perspectives Press, 1997
Girard, Linda Walvoord, & Friedman, Judith
Adoption Is For Always. Albert Whitman & Co., 1991
Gravelle, Karen, & Fischer, Susan
Where Are My Birth Parents? A Guide for Teenage Adoptees. Walker & Co., 1995
Koehler, Phoebe
The Day We Met You. Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997
Livingston, Carole, & Robins, Arthur
Why Was I Adopted? Kensington International, 1979
Melina, Lois Ruskal
Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent's Guide. HarperCollins, 1989
Pellegrini, Nina
Families Are Different. Holiday House, 1991
Schaffer, Judith, & Lindstrom, Christina
How to Raise An Adopted Child: A Guide to Help Your Child Flourish from Infancy through Adolescence. Plume, 1991
Watkins, Mary, & Fisher, Susan M.
Talking With Young Children About Adoption. Yale University Press, 1995
Stonehenge Image "The Cleansing" © Daniel E. Baxter
Flash Animation and Site Design by Wilder Tweedale
Site created and maintained by
Dr. David J. Baxter, Psychologist, Ottawa