Growing Up In Adoption Stories From An Indian Perspective

Author : Roxana Kalyanvala
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 168494628X

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Growing Up in Adoption: Stories from an Indian Perspective by Roxana Kalyanvala Pdf

What does it take to keep a family together; a family completed through adoption? Love, patience, compassion, understanding-a little of everything maybe. The book elucidates real-life adoption experiences through the voices of adoptive families and adult adoptees as they share their moments of joy, sadness, challenges, pain, fulfilment and much more. It touches upon grief and loss and the stark realities of adoption. Adoptive parents share their experiences of how they let their adopted children know that they were adopted and how they handled "root search" which are crucial issues when it comes to understanding adoption. Also included are candid accounts from adult adoptees on 'Growing up in Adoption'. By providing glimpses of the world of adoption, the author aims to aid prospective and current adopting individuals to understand the thought process of adoptive children and be better prepared as parents. Are you looking to adopt? Don't forget to take a look at the questionnaire to test your readiness for adoption. #adoptionmakesafamily "This book is a welcome contribution to the small body of literature on adoption in India." - Dr. Shalini Bharat, Director and Vice-Chancellor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. "This book has a mission not just to educate but it will be a support through your pilgrimage as a parent." - Dr. Aloma Lobo, Adoptive Parent and former Chairperson of the Central Adoption Resource Authority and the Adoption Coordinating Agency, Karnataka. Bharatiya Samaj Seva Kendra works towards making a positive difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families since 1979.

Author : Roxana Kalyanvala
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781684946297

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Growing up in Adoption by Roxana Kalyanvala Pdf

What does it take to keep a family together; a family completed through adoption? Love, patience, compassion, understanding—a little of everything maybe. The book elucidates real-life adoption experiences through the voices of adoptive families and adult adoptees as they share their moments of joy, sadness, challenges, pain, fulfilment and much more. It touches upon grief and loss and the stark realities of adoption. Adoptive parents share their experiences of how they let their adopted children know that they were adopted and how they handled “root search” which are crucial issues when it comes to understanding adoption. The book highlights some of the less frequently discussed adoption issues such as dealing with mixed emotions relating to an identity crisis and the desire of the adoptees to learn about their biological roots. Also included are candid accounts from adult adoptees on ‘Growing up in Adoption’. By providing glimpses of the world of adoption, the author aims to aid prospective and current adopting individuals to understand the thought process of adoptive children and be better prepared as parents. Are you looking to adopt? Don’t forget to take a look at the questionnaire to test your readiness for adoption. #adoptionmakesafamily “This book is a welcome contribution to the small body of literature on adoption in India.” – Dr. Shalini Bharat, Director and Vice-Chancellor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. “This book has a mission not just to educate but it will be a support through your pilgrimage as a parent.” – Dr. Aloma Lobo, Adoptive Parent and former Chairperson of the Central Adoption Resource Authority and the Adoption Coordinating Agency, Karnataka. Bharatiya Samaj Seva Kendra works towards making a positive difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families since 1979.

Author : Vinita Bhargava
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0761933743

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Adoption in India by Vinita Bhargava Pdf

This book researches child adoption in India and challenges prevalent theories of adoption. It is the only book of its kind to lend a voice to adopted children and shares the narratives of many families in their experiences of adoption. It also recounts the personal story of the author as an adoptive parent. The first part of the book deals with the macro issues of child adoption, while the second provides a micro-level analysis of individual families. The socio-political and socio-cultural contexts within which adoptions occur are also analyzed.

Author : Nicole Chung
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781948226370

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All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Pdf

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR) What does it means to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.

Author : Doris Bertocci,Christopher Deeg,Linda A. Mayers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781000915815

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Handbook on the Clinical Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults by Doris Bertocci,Christopher Deeg,Linda A. Mayers Pdf

This collection bridges the voices of international scholars and adopted persons to share knowledge about clinical practice with adopted people in adolescence and early adulthood. Coming at a time when countries are beginning to focus on adoption reform, this handbook is the first to address not only the external, systemic contributions to their developmental complexities but also the underlying, internal meanings of being adopted as children become adolescents and mature into adulthood. It explains how adopted clients differ from those not adopted and emphasizes the need for clinical research on adopted people in this older age group. Exploring how clinicians can understand their client’s clinical needs, it offers specific protocols and frameworks for assessment and necessary modifications in language and treatment. With a foreword by Miriam Steele, chapters examine the legal and sociopolitical cultures, policies, and practices in which adoption is embedded, calling for broad systemic change. Embracing theoretical, conceptual, and global perspectives, this handbook is written for clinicians in all disciplines, at all tiers of practice, administration, and training, identifying the key roles they can potentially play in expanding and better focusing our understanding of the psychology of being adopted.

Author : Amanda Wall
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1098358996

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Finding Family in a Far-Away Land by Amanda Wall Pdf

Every adoption experience is uniquely different but the yearning to have unconditional family love is universal. Indian sisters, Priya and Ari, experience what it's like to be adopted into a multi-cultural, interracial family. Walk alongside these two charming, dynamic girls as they journey through the adoption transition to a new country full of new experiences! Told from young Priya's perspective, she shares her fun times, challenges, difficult memories and cultural discoveries. Priya moves through her world with a cautious eye while little sister, Ari, jumps in head first. This makes for comical moments and demonstrates that children can experience the same journey quite differently. A glossary of cultural terms is included so that all can learn and enjoy what Ari and Priya cherish about their Indian roots. This book is meant to be a resource to those hoping to learn about one family's adoption experience and may even help a child process their own adoption story.

Author : Asha Miro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416524946

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Daughter of the Ganges by Asha Miro Pdf

A moving and emotional story about one girl's adoption While growing up in an Indian orphanage, Asha Miró dreamed of someday being adopted. Her wish finally came true, but only at the misfortune of another. When Asha was six, a Catalan family was in the process of adopting twins but one of the children suddenly fell ill and died. This twist of fate led the family to adopt Asha instead. Leaving a life of poverty behind, Asha was given a second chance. Twenty-one years later, Asha takes a heart-wrenching trip back to India to uncover her native roots. Full of unexpected encounters, this adventure informs and touches Asha beyond her expectations. She visits her old orphanage, speaks with her former caretakers, explores the land that she might not have ever left, and comes to form a more solid identity. Yet one trip is not enough. Eight years later she returns. This time she journeys to the small rural village where she was born. As well as uncovering the details behind her adoption, she finds the only living member of her immediate Indian family: a sister she never knew she had.

Author : David M. Brodzinsky,Marshall D. Schecter,Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780385414265

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Being Adopted by David M. Brodzinsky,Marshall D. Schecter,Robin Marantz Henig Pdf

Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.

Author : Rita J. Simon,Sarah Hernandez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461633860

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Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories by Rita J. Simon,Sarah Hernandez Pdf

Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation. The participants of the study represent a range of positive and negative experiences of transracial adoption. Regardless of their personal experiences, however, all twenty respondents indicate that they are supporters of the Indian Child Welfare Act and that they believe that Native children should be raised in Native households whenever possible. However, eighteen of the twenty respondents concede that non-Native families can raise Native children to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults. Through the interviews, Simon and Hernandez allow readers to better understand the different experiences of Native American adoptees.

Author : Jana Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-10
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 0967214319

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Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff Pdf

While books about adoption proliferate, none of them addresses the subject of open and interracial adoption like Jana Wolff's personal and frank account does in [i]Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother[/i]. Often irreverent, always insightful, surprisingly funny and stunningly honest, [i]Secret Thoughts[/i] tells it like it is: How it feels for a woman to look nothing like her child and to know the woman who does. This fiercely honest and funny book answers questions no one dares to ask: What if I don't like the child I get? Will she want the baby back? If this is the happiest day of my life, why am I so sad? Am I too white for a kid this black? Chapter titles include: The Myth of Bliss, Friendly Racism, Meeting Your Child's Mother, and Adopted Poop Doesn't Smell Any Different.

Author : Peter L. Benson,Anu R. Sharma,Eugene C. Roehlkepartain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 1574823248

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Growing Up Adopted by Peter L. Benson,Anu R. Sharma,Eugene C. Roehlkepartain Pdf

Author : Pia Ghose
Publisher : Partridge Singapore
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543740138

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A Simple Wish by Pia Ghose Pdf

This is the story of how the author's family was created out of love, a little magic and a simple wish. All families are special - and through the author's eyes we hope you will see that while the path adoptive families take to becoming a family may be different, they cherish and take joy in each other as much as any family does. This book is written simply in the hope that the message of love no matter how it comes about can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

Author : Manju Jaidka,Tej N. Dhar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000933154

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English by Manju Jaidka,Tej N. Dhar Pdf

Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.

Author : Jane Jeong Trenka,Julia Chinyere Oparah,Sun Yung Shin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452965208

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Outsiders Within by Jane Jeong Trenka,Julia Chinyere Oparah,Sun Yung Shin Pdf

Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, the contributors unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. Contributors: Heidi Lynn Adelsman; Ellen M. Barry; Laura Briggs, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Catherine Ceniza Choy, U of California, Berkeley; Gregory Paul Choy, U of California, Berkeley; Rachel Quy Collier; J. A. Dare; Kim Diehl; Kimberly R. Fardy; Laura Gannarelli; Shannon Gibney; Mark Hagland; Perlita Harris; Tobias Hübinette, Stockholm U; Jae Ran Kim; Anh Đào Kolbe; Mihee-Nathalie Lemoine; Beth Kyong Lo; Ron M.; Patrick McDermott, Salem State College, Massachusetts; Tracey Moffatt; Ami Inja Nafzger (aka Jin Inja); Kim Park Nelson; John Raible; Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern U; Raquel Evita Saraswati; Kirsten Hoo-Mi Sloth; Soo Na; Shandra Spears; Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark; Kekek Jason Todd Stark; Sunny Jo; Sandra White Hawk; Indigo Williams Willing; Bryan Thao Worra; Jeni C. Wright.

Author : Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062266675

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Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Pdf

Somer’s life is everything sheimagined it would be—she’s newly married and has started her career as a physician in SanFrancisco—until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children. The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter’s life by giving her away. It is a decision that will haunt Kavita for the rest of her life, and cause a ripple effect that travels across the world and back again. Asha, adopted out of a Mumbai orphanage, is the child that binds the destinies of these two women. We follow both families, invisibly connected until Asha’s journey of self-discovery leads her back to India. Compulsively readable and deeply touching, Secret Daughter is a story of the unforeseen ways in which our choices and families affect our lives, and the indelible power of love in all its many forms.