Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption

Duxbury, Micky

ISBN 10: 0415955025 / ISBN 13: 9780415955027

Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2007

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A near fine to fine copy in a pictorial wraps. Inscribed and signed by author on half title page. 1st printing stated. 8vo., 175 pages Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
• Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415955025
• ISBN 13: 9780415955027
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • NONFICTION
  • SIGNED BOOKS
  • PARENTING

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Synopsis

Adopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I? The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin. Making Room in Our Hearts offers an intimate look at how these relationships evolve over time, with real-life stories from families who have experienced open adoption first-hand. This book helps both adoptive and birth parents address their fears and concerns, while offering them the support to put the child’s psychological and spiritual needs at the center of adoption. Based on interviews with more than one hundred adopted children, birth and adoptive parents, extended families, professionals and experts, the book is an effective and invaluable resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals in the field. Openness has altered the landscape of adoption, and Making Room in Our Hearts will help us catch up to the reality that is open adoption today.

About the Author

Micky Duxbury is an adoptive parent of a beautiful and expressive daughter brought to her family through domestic adoption in 1994. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has practiced in the Bay Area for twenty years. Currently specializing in pre and post-adoption education and counseling, she has facilitated pre-adoption support groups for the for eight years. She developed and taught a course on The Psychology of Adoption and offers workshops on Raising Adopted Children. A strong proponent of ethical and child-centered adoption practices, she has worked as a mediator and therapist with all members of the adoption triad.