Publisher Description
Discover What Adoption and Foster Care Really Look Like
If you are considering adoption or foster care or are already somewhere in this difficult and complicated process, you need trusted information from people who have been where you are.
Mike and Kristin Berry have adopted eight children and cared for another twenty-three kids in their nine-year stint as foster parents. They aren't just experts. They have experienced every emotional high and low and encountered virtually every situation imaginable as parents. Now, they want to share what they've learned with you.
Get the answers you need to the following questions, and many more: Should I foster parent or adopt? How do I know? What is the first step in becoming an adoptive or foster parent? What are the benefits of an open versus closed adoption? How and when do I tell my child that he or she is adopted? How do I help my child embrace his or her cultural and racial identity?
Honestly Adoption will provide you with practical, down-to-earth advice to make good decisions in your own adoption and foster parenting journey and give you the help and hope you need.
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About the Authors
Mike Berry is the co-founder of the popular parenting blog Confessions of an Adoptive Parent and the parenting resource company, International Parent LLC. He’s also a contributing writer for Disney’s babble.com, TheGoodMenProject.com, and has been featured in Yahoo Parenting. He and his wife Kristen have foster parented dozens of children in their 13-year parenting career and have eight adopted children of their own.