Programs & Locations

Titles of Interest to Prospective Adoptive Parents

• Adopted Child
  A Newsletter. Lois Melina, ed. P.O. Box 9632, Moscow, ID 83843.
  
  
• Adoption Without Fear
  Gritter, James. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1989.
  
  
• Children of Open Adoption
  Silber, Kathleen, and Patricia Dorner. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1990.
  Two pioneers in the field of open adoption present important evidence that begins to answer how children are doing in open adoption. The book examines numbers of actual adoption experiences and follows children from infancy through the teen years.
  
  
• Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby, 2nd ed.
  Silber, Kathleen, and Phyllis Speedlin. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1991.
  Using actual correspondence between birth parents and adoptive parents, this book debunks the myth that birth parents do not care about their children and do not think about them later.
  
  
• Making Sense of Adoption
  Melina, Lois R. New York: Solstice Press/Harper & Row, 1989.
  Through sample conversations and age-specific activities, national expert, Lois Melina, offers practical help on how to talk to children about adoption.
  
  
• Open Adoption: A Caring Option
  Warren, Lindsay Jeanne. Buena Park, Ca: Morning Glory Press, 1987.
  
  
• Raising Adopted Children
  Melina, Lois R. New York: Solstice Press/Harper & Row, 1986.
  
  

Titles of Interest to Adoptees

• A Time to Search
  Ehrlich, Henry, ed. New York: Paddington Press, 1977.
  
  
• Adoption Reunions: A Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Adoptive Families
  McColm, Michelle. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1993.
  
  
• Adoptive Kinship
  Kirk, H. David. Toronto: Butterworth & co., 1981.
  
  
• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
  Brodzinsky, David M., Marshall D. Schechter, and Robin Marantz Henig. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
  
  
• Birthbond: Reunions Between Birthparents and Adoptees
  Gediman, Judith S., and Linda P. Brown. Far Hills, N.J.: New Horizon Press, 1989.
  
  
• Courageous Blessing: Adoptive Parents & the Search
  Demuth, Carol L. Garland, Tx: Aries Center, 1993.
  
  
• Shared Fate: A Theory of Adoption and Mental Health
  Kirk, H. David. New York: The Free Press, 1964.
  
  
• The Adoption Triangle, rev. ed.
  Sorosky, Arthur, Annette Baran, and Reuben Pannor. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1984.
  
  
• Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
  Lifton, Betty Jean. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.