Books to Read about Chinese Adoption

Besides paperchasing, I have been reading up on adoption in particular Chinese Adoption.

I have read books on China Adoption. Georgia has a great adoptive resource library so I can get books for free -- they mail it to you free of charge and then provide you free shipping. Here is the website, if you are interested: http://www.gaadoptionresources.org . So I have read:

A Passage to the Heart by Amy Klatzkin - The articles in A PASSAGE TO THE HEART, taken from FCC (Families with Children from China) chapter newsletters, discuss all aspects of adoption from China. These include: the waiting period, the adoption journey, settling in, health and development, adoption after infancy, single parenting, culture, language, identity, race, going back, birth parents, and much more. By turns funny, moving, practical, and deeply personal, this collection is a treasure trove for those who have or are planning to adopt from China.

Dim sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families by Myra Alperson - As the adoptive Jewish mother of a Chinese-born daughter, Alperson is able to offer personal as well as professional insight into such topics as combining cultures in the home, confronting prejudice, and developing role models. Focusing on adoptive families she provides guidelines on how families can prepare for their exciting journey toward becoming a multicultural family. her book includes a wealth of on-line and "conventional" resources to find books, food products, toys, clothing, discussion groups and heritage camps that help families to enhance their lives as they build a multicultural home.

Lost Daughters of China, The: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans - Evans weaves together her experience of adopting a Chinese infant with observations about Chinese women's history and that country's restrictive reproductive policies. Borrowing an image from Chinese folklore, Evans conveys herself, her husband, and their daughter as tethered by a red string that yoked them a equally awesome cultural divide.

Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China by Kay Ann Johnson - Kay Johnson provides an intimate portrait of the complex processes by which, over the past decade, thousands of little Chinese girls have made their way from orphanages in China into adoptive homes overseas. Johnson untangles the complex interactions between these social practices and the governments population policies. She also documents the many unintended consequences, including the overcrowding of orphanages that led China to begin international adoptions.

Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Johnston - The issues raised in this book are difficult ones. ADOPTING AFTER INFERTILITY examines the lifelong impact of building a family by adoption after experiencing infertility. Couples struggling to decide whether to adopt, those who have said yes to adoption, and parents of young children who have been adopted are the intended audience for this compassionate book. It will help you and your family make the decisions that are right for you.

I have book that I bought called Adoption Parenting:Creating a Toolbox, Building ConnectionsEdited by Jean MacLeod and Sheena Macrae, PhD. I haven't read it yet.

Out of all the books, I really liked the Dim sum, Bagels, and Grits. It really fits well into our family (Interfaith (Jewish/Catholic) ( living in the South).

Another recommendation is to get the National Geographic Video - Lost Daughters.

Here is to good reading!

Jen