Loved by Choice: True Stories That Celebrate Adoption
Whether it's the joy-filled decision to welcome a child into your arms or the difficult decision to give your child another home-adoption is making the choice to love unselfishly and unconditionally. \ Loved by Choice offers a clear and uplifting look at adoption through true stories told from virtually every perspective. Birth parents, adoptive parents, grandparents, adopted children, families working out an overseas adoption, and those creating interracial families are among those who share...
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Loved by Choice offers a clear and uplifting look at adoption from virtually every perspective. It is comprised of true stories that reflect the joys and the difficulties of those touched by adoption. Families working out an overseas adoption, those creating interracial families, grandparents, birth mothers, and even birth fathers are among the many who tell their stories.Two appendices define adoption terms and outline resources that will be helpful to those exploring adoption. The emphasis of Loved by Choice, though, is to demonstrate how adoption can complete a family. It's a poignant celebration of adoption, led by those who understand it best.This book's pro-life, positive, and upbeat message will be a welcomed source for women facing pregnancy choices, anyone working with unwed mothers, adoptees, adoption advocates, pro-life advocates, couples considering adoption, and anyone else interested in stories that celebrate adoption. It is an ideal book for bookstores and libraries to display in November, which is Adoption Awareness Month. Loved by Choice will also be popular at the many adoption-related conferences, book readings, and fairs that take place around the world. Publishers Weekly Many books have been written specifically for Christian parents, and many others have been written about adoption. An anthology that brings those genres together is Loved by Choice: True Stories That Celebrate Adoption, edited by Susan Horner and Kelly Fordyce Martindale. Many distinct voices are contained in these pages not only adoptive parents, but also men and women who reflect on their own experiences of having been adopted, and parents who made the choice to have their babies raised by others. The families introduced here include biracial, multinational and non-traditional families; one chapter shares the adoption stories of four special-needs children. The writing is not spectacular, but that's hardly the point. Christians who have considered adoption will be inspired by these courageous tales of faith. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Acknowledgments9Introduction11Part 1Connected through Adoption: Branches of a Family TreeNo Regrets16Mother's Day Bouquet20Different This Time Around24Doubly Loved26Her Selfless Sacrifice28Two Moms to Love33Part 2My Heart Rejoices: Adoptive Moms Celebrate MotherhoodDaughter of My Heart38Heart's Delight39Adoptive Breast-Feeding46Part 3A Father's Focus: Stories from MenPapa's Perspective50No Greater Joy53My Little Guys56Part 4The Choice for Adoption: Making the Adoption DecisionA Mother's Sacrificial Love60God's Faithfulness71Part 5Who Will Rock My Baby? Wanting the Best for My ChildTaxi Driver Rescue78Sharing Thaddaeus81Snapshots of an Adoption86Samantha's Box90For the Good of the Children94Aaron, Forever a Big Brother98Part 6Tapestries of Color: Biracial AdoptionsIt's Not Black or White, It's Love102Collage of Colors107Mommy, I'm Different111Part 7Crossing Continents: International AdoptionsFinding Grace116Hope Fulfilled123Adopting Joshua128A Merry Heart Is like a Medicine131Siberian Adoption136Part 8Handle with Care: The Special-Needs ChildTransformed by Love144Last Hope, Final Chance151Given Life, Given Love158The Year of Jubilee163Part 9Ready-Made Families: Multiple AdoptionsWhat's in a Name?170It's a Boy, It's a Boy!173Part 10Sharing My Parents: Siblings Share Their StoriesNo Fake Sisters180Maybe Mismatched, but True Family182Part 11The Grandchild in My Heart: Grandparents Tell Their StoriesLifeSaver188When It's Your Daughter and Your Grandchild190Grandmom's Love194Letter from a Thankful Grandma197Part 12Fatherless No More: Delayed Adoption DecisionsWard of the Court200Forever Family210Part 13Incredible! Remarkable AdoptionsPrecious Gifts Come in Small Packages216My Daughter's Eyes221A Child Just like Me227A Family Thing230Part 14Photo in the Locket: Adoption ReunionsLoved, and Loved Again234Precious in His Sight240In Everything There Is a Gift247A Phone Call Away251Part 15The Greatest Gift: Adopted Kids Say Thank YouBatter Up256My Tribute257Orphan Train Rider261Daddy's Little Girl266Doubly Grateful269Full Circle271Appendix AAdoption Terms273Appendix BAdoption Resources277Contributors282
