adoption
- Adopted Volunteers Requested-
Are You Adopted?
Are you interested in completing a survey to help others learn more about the adoption experience?If you are an adoptee from an open adoption, 18-25 years old, please consider completing this confidential and anonymous survey online.
I am an adoptee and a Ph.D. candidate completing my dissertation on young adult adoptees from open adoption arrangements. (if you are not sure if your adoption is open, please consider participating anyway). You may access the survey by using the following address:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/openadoption
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at shapc@aol.com
thanks,
Christy Sherman
- New Book for Adopted Teens Seeks Submissions-
Dawn suggested I post this on the front page (thanks Dawn!)
EMK Press, a leading publisher of resources and materials for adoption, seeks creative and unique submissions for an innovative resource designed for adopted teenagers. This book will be edited by Bert Ballard, PhD, adoptee from Vietnam.
Today’s teenager struggles with a variety of challenges, ranging from concerns over popularity, doing well in school, getting into college, driving, peer pressure, friends, religion, which is not to mention concerns and worries over drugs, alcohol, sex, pregnancy, and suicide. For the adopted teen, identity issues, fitting in with their adoptive families, birth families, personal histories, cultural differences, skin color differences, abusive pasts, and more manifest themselves in a variety of ways, often unpredictably or even disguised as something other than the underlying issue.
This new book hopes to offer voices and a place where adopted teens can feel free to be themselves, a place where they feel comfortable journeying through life as a teenager . . . a teenager who also happens to be adopted.
We call on anyone and everyone who believes they can offer something supportive, yet honest, candid, wise, and even humorous to today’s adopted teenagers. This includes all domestic, international, and transracial adopted and fostered teens and adults, first parents, mentors, adoptive parents, extended family.
See http://www.emkpress.com/teenbook.html for more details on this IMPORTANT project.
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And check out our name the book contest to win an iPod nano,
entries need to be received by October 15 to be entered in the contest.
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And while you are on our site, check out the resources we have for adoptive families....
Thanks!
Carrie Kitze
Publisher
EMK Press
www.emkpress.com - New service will help link adult adoptees and birth parents-
The National Crittenton Foundation has launched a new service on their website called Crittenton Connections, which aims to help connect people looking for birth parents, adult adoptees or other family members. The service can be accessed via The Foundation’s website here. Crittenton Connections was created in response to the calls and emails received by the Crittenton family of agencies across the country and The National Crittenton Foundation from people looking for a family member. The service enables individuals who were involved at any point with a Crittenton agency (parents, children and family members) to post their contact information and to search for individuals who have also input information into the database. More information on the history of The National Crittenton Foundation is here.
- Crisis Pregnancy Blogger Needed-
AdoptionBlogs.com is looking for a great blogger, preferably one with experience, to take over the Crisis Pregnancy blog. We are seeking someone who can commit to the position who has been through an unplanned pregnancy of their own. Blogs should be written from an unbiased point of view but simultaneously one of experience, offering advice without judgment or agenda. Both adoption and parenting should be discussed with an emphasis on the realities of adoption, resources for mothers and emotional support for the difficult time. It would help you to go ahead and read what our previous blogger has written over the past two years to get a feel for what we're looking for at this time!
Please e-mail me at mrsjennahatfield at gmail dot com with interest as soon as possible (preferably today!) so I can tell you the requirements for applying.
This position needs filled immediately. Feel free to pass the information on!
- An unspeakable tragedy-
In Texas last week, the media carried far and wide the kind of story that makes all of us in the adoption community shudder and cringe.
A licensed vocational nurse with five biological kids was convicted in Corpus Christi, for murdering a four-year-old child she and her husband were preparing to adopt through CPS (by way of Spaulding).
- Girls in Trouble-
Having just finished the book for the second time, I'm more aware of both the good points and bad points presented in fictional format.
- The Girls Who Went Away-
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler. In short, this is the best non-fiction book I have read in a long, long time. And I’m that nerd that loves non-fiction: memoirs, histories, biographies and tell-alls. I love them all!
