The Post Adoption Blues: overcoming the unforseen challenges of adoption
by Karen J. Foli, Ph.D. and John R. Thompson, M.D.,
Lifegivers: Framing the Birthparent Experience in Open Adoption
by James Gritter, CWLA Press, 2000.
Did My First Mother Love Me?
by Kathryn Ann Miller,
Tell Me a Real Adoption Story
by Betty Jean Lifton, Knopf, 1993.
One Wonderful You
by Francie Portnoy,
Twice Upon a Time: Born and Adopted
by Eleanora Patterson,
The Mulberry Bird: Story of an Adoption
by Anne Brodzinsky, Perspectives Press, 1996.
Talking with Young Children about Adoption
by Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher, Yale Univ. Press, 1995.
Raising Adopted Children: A Parent’s Guide to Rearing Children in an Adoptive Family
by Lois R. Melina, Harper Perennial, Rev. 1998.
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
by Jana Wolff, Vista Communications, 2000.
Inside Transracial Adoption: Strength-based, culture-sensitizing parenting strategies for intercountry or domestic adoptive families that don’t match
by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall, Perspectives Press, 2000.
Black Children, White Parents: Putting the Pieces Together
by Tonya Moore, Morris Publishing, 2005.
Telling the Truth to your Adopted or Foster Child: making sense of the past
by Jayne Schooler and Betsy Keefer, Bergin & Garvey, 2000.
Attaching in Adoption Practical Tools for Today’s Parents
by Deborah D. Gray, Perspectives Press, Inc, 2002.
Toddler Adoption: the Weaver’s Craft
by Mary Hopkins Best, Ed.D,
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew
by Sherrie Eldridge, Dell, 1999.
The Open Adoption Experience
by Lois Ruskai Melina and Sharon Kaplan Roszia,
Hospitious Adoption
by James L. Gritter, CWLA Press, 2009.
Real Parents, Real Children Parenting the Adopted Child
by Holly Van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb, Crossroad, New York, 1995.
The Family of Adoption
by Joyce M. Pavao, Beacon Press, 1998.
