Adopted and Loved Forever [Hardcover]

Annetta E. Dellinger (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up

A young child describes what it means to be adopted emphasizing that parents of adopted children chose them, love them, and will never leave them.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Hardcover: 22 pages
• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House (June 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0570041678
• ISBN-13: 978-0570041672
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,264,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars this is a good book,but does have christian overtones, May 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Adopted and Loved Forever (Hardcover)

For adopted children and for parents to read to their adopted young children,this is a good begining book,but if you are not christian or perfer not to be quite so dogmatic,this might not be the book for you.

70 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars dated book about adoption, August 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Adopted and Loved Forever (Hardcover)

I got this book to share with my children, but having read it I won't be doing so. Though our family is Christian, this book is far too fundamentalist. That in itself could be fine for some families, but I find some of the language about adoption dated, offensive, and potentially difficult for children who have been adopted. The term "natural" parents is unfortunately used. There are also lines such as "I try to show Jesus how happy I am for giving me my mom and dad by obeying them," and (in a prayer) "Help me to show my parents how much I love them for wanting me." My concern is that reading those to my children would send them a message that they should be grateful for us having adopted them. I do not consider this a suitable book about adoption.

30 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book for a strong Christain perspective of adoption, December 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Adopted and Loved Forever (Hardcover)

I read the previous reviews. I disagree with most of it. I do agree that some of the terminology is a little out dated. I do agree with the part that it does make a statement in a prayer part that says help me to show my parents how thankful I am they wanted me. I can see where that may be taken in a bad way. But I think the point is that a child can be grateful to God that He put in their parents' hearts the desire that they be their child. And that is not the same message as they should feel they owe something to their parents for having adopted them. I do not get that message at all from this book. I think the point is that it is trying to help the child see that adoption is a thing that is good and that the parents and the child can be thankful about. It also makes the analogy that we are all adopted by God. It may not be politically correct in all areas but the overall message I think is great! There's lots of room to get offended by terms for parents but I have never found kids to be so concerned about these terms. I think one statement here or there is not going to give them a feeling that they should be grateful we adopted them and be mindful of that every day. They get their feeling about adoption from us and our hearts on it. They know we feel we are the lucky ones. I think if you are afraid your kids will get that they should be grateful to have been adopted in a less than reasonable way then your problem is bigger than bad wording in a Christian kids book. And I personally am not offended by the term "natural parents" vs "birth parents". I do not think the term natural implies that adoption is not natural unless you have a chip on your shoulder. To me the distinction IS by nature vs parents by God. How hung up can we get on this stuff? I think as hung up as we are is as hung up as our kids will be. I personally want my kids to grow up not tripping over other peoples blunders on adoption terms and believing that most people really mean to be talking about adoption in the most loving terms but do not always know the lingo. Of course not, they have not experienced it. Why set your kids up to spend the rest of their lives offended all the time?

What it does do is talk about how adoption is a gift from God to the child and the parents. It talks about how an adopted child is chosen and how they can be adopted at all different ages. It talks about how we are all chosen by God and adopted into His family. It is pretty bold in talking about why kids are put up for adoption. If you have a problem with that message of adoption or you do not want your child to understand why they may have been put up for adoption then you will hate this book! But if that sounds like a good overall message (you can always can change terms that may offend you), it may be a good one for helping your kids to understand adoption in a loving and accepting way.