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Adoption Journeys: Parents Tell Their Stories

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Carole Turner's book is a wonderful, moving work. Her sensetive interviews with these 11 families bring the reader into their lives without intrusion. Each account of the preparation for and travel through the adoption process is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. These families' experiences are so varied; their reasons for deciding to adopt so diverse, yet the underlying desire to build a family is common among them. I was particularly moved by the courage of the parents. They worked so hard to achieve their goals. The single parents are so brave to take on such a challenge, and the couples had their own sets of hurdles to overcome, from infertility to taking older children who were traumatized by their pasts, to travel to a foreign country to meet their children. My hat goes off to Carole Turner for being able to enable the families to open up, to her own daugher, Emma, for being the inspiration for the book, and most of all, to the families featured, for sharing their lives selflessly and being such wonderful people. I highly recommend this book for anyone whose life has been touched by adoption, or for anyone interested in family.

My husband and I are just starting on our own adoption journey. I just finished reading Carole's book last week and now my husband is now reading it. I cried tears of joy throughout the entire book! I cannot thank the author enough for writing this book; Reading everyone's story gives us the understanding that though we are in for our own roller coaster, there will be pure joy in the end. The stories also answered so many questions that other books fail to address and gave me greater insight into other issues such as the heartache birthmothers go through. We, too, believe that God will lead us to our child, but the couples' words in this book reinforced and strengthened our instinct.

Reading this book was like joining an adoption support group! The author deftly tells the stories of several adoptive parents in different circumstances, describing their joys, frustrations, hopes and fears with such sensitivity that I found I couldn't put the book down. I was also surprised to find that I am now open to other, less-traditional forms of adoption.

I recommend it highly.

The stories were sincere. I was looking for more transracial adoption stories on older child adoption but only found one inside this book. The black children that were adopted were adopted as infants, so it wasn't of much interest to my situation. I found that each parental story was very honest and will help those of you who have adopted internationally.