The Open Hearted Way to Open Adoption
Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do … more »
The Hopeful Mom’s Guide to Adoption
Choosing to adopt can be overwhelming, rendering you anxious, hopeful, and confused. This no-holds-barred guide gives you the authentic offerings of Rachel Garlinghouse’s ten-year (and counting) commitment to encouragement, education, … more »
Relinquished
“Impressively reported…[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans’ reduced access to abortion.”—San Francisco Chronicle A powerful decade-long study of … more »
Wake Up Little Susie
Rickie Solinger’s passionate and powerful history serves to remind us of the importance of the feminist efforts that led to Roe v. Wade and the many other measures that have … more »
American Baby
A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search … more »
The Sixteenth Year
It was the year that changed everything. When a pregnancy test turns up positive, Leah has some tough decisions to make. At just sixteen, what will she do? Wrestling with … more »
Those Three Words
When Christine Bauer heard those three words ”you are pregnant” at the tender age of 18, she was devastated. She was not ready to be a mother, and she had … more »
God and Jet Fire
God and Jetfire is a mother’s account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned … more »
I Would Meet You Anywhere
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is … more »