Adoption & Fostering

With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the ubertalented Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when an unexpected invitation arrived....

The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s best-selling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach....

The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family - and addressing their special needs - requires care, consideration, and compassion....

With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities....

Little Jamey, two and a half years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency....

Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of rape, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to keep them safe....

Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers....

In her brand-new series Thrown Away Children, Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother. The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true story of a young girl scarred by an abusive past....

Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families....

Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure....

 La guía paso a paso para padres ocupados que aman a su bebé genio. capítulo extra con consejos para padres descuidados....

A powerful, moving true story from Sunday Times best seller Maggie Hartley, Britain's most-loved foster carer. Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Casey Watson....

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 to find each other....

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old. At first, she’s no trouble at all, that is until she falsely accuses another carer, Jan, of acting inappropriately towards her....

This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame....

Ashley is a young single mum raising her daughter, Eden, and working hard to do the very best job she can - until one night she can't find a babysitter and makes the decision to leave Eden home alone for a couple of hours, asleep inside a wardrobe....

Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heartbreaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing and how he came through the other side....

This first volume of Beyond Consequences lays out the basics of this revolutionary and simple parenting paradigm....

The Child Catchers is a shocking exposé of what the adoption industry has become and how it got there....

Adopting or fostering a child with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is beyond challenging. These kids often have violent outbursts, steal, engage in outlandish lying, play with feces, and hoard food. They are broken children who too often break even the most loving of caregivers....

Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows....

In her new book, the Sunday Times and New York TImes best-selling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn....

The 11th memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy's adopted daughter Lucy....

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....

The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of a 13-year experience as a foster parent, Another Place at the Table is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption....

From this inauspicious beginning, entirely without support, Crystal Lindsey has created a system for survival allowing her to thrive and develop her emotional resilience. Crystal knows trauma unlocks superpowers, and she has developed biohacks to show you how to discover your own superpowers using daily gratitude and grit psychology. She gives you a story of hope and optimism while "getting real" about the challenges you will face in adulthood after growing up with abuse and/or aging out of foster care.

Dave takes his listeners on an emotional roller coaster through that journey and the years prior that prepared them for this process. You will laugh at his hatred of needles, his awkwardness around people, and real estate deals gone south. You will cry as he lets you into the heartache surrounding miscarriage, infertility, foster care, and adoption. The grace of God will warm your heart as David shows the loving, kind, and gentle hand of our sovereign God gently leading in all of these things. This is an audiobook that you don't want to miss.

When life doesn't work out as planned, Katherine faces one decision after the next - all leading up to the most painful decision of her life. Will she keep her baby? River Children is the story of a birth mother's journey through the heartbreaking choices of her life to the place of redemption and healing. Follow Katherine as she encounters the twists and turns of life, the breakup of relationships, and the brokenness that results.

A desperate mother must grapple with impossible choices as her young son with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) becomes too dangerous to live at home, but is only growing bigger, stronger, and more violent while in treatment. When Keri and her husband adopt Devon, he has concerning behaviors, but she’s confident all he needs is the love of a “forever family". Based on a shocking true story, this reads-like-fiction memoir exposes the dysfunctions of the child welfare and mental health systems and how they fail kids with RAD and their families.

Every adoption is a unique journey. Some journeys were planned from long ago. Some journeys start without a moment’s notice. This is the story of four adoption journeys.