Are they all yours? Do you run a day care? Is this a youth group? Why didn t you want to have any children of your own? These are questions faced often by parents of large families, but especially by adoptive parents. What makes the Fletcher family s story unique is that their twelve children all came home within twelve years. Five children are Hispanic. One is biracial. Two are Asian. Four are Caucasian. Ten are from four state foster care systems from across the United States, two are from a Guatemalan orphanage. At the writing of this book, they range in age from 10-22 but they arrived between the ages of 9 months and 12 years. Together the family has confronted (and in some cases resolved) a myriad of challenges. Each is a unique individual with special gifts and contributions to make to the world. This book is the account, with helpful wisdom along the way, of an adoptive family s first twelve years, recounting how each child was claimed. Two Adults. Twelve Children. One Family.
Out of Many, One Family
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I loved this book! Everything written in this book is SO TRUE! The Fletcher s have gained incredible insight into the foster and adopt system, and put many lessons in this book that are the things I would want to tell potential foster and adoptive parents. I am going to recommend this book to anyone who wants to foster/adopt to read before going through the process! --Brenda Lund, Adoption Prep Supervisor, Texas DFPS
The Fletcher's deep passion for helping children burns through every page, shaming me even somewhat, as I've nearly been morose lately, faced with such daunting challenges. I personally needed the shot in the arm that their book provided. --(Cindy, mom of 39 in Georgia)
The Fletchers story is not necessarily one that would make all potential adoptive parents view foster care as a viable option but I think it does something even more important. It sheds light on what can be the reality of adopting these kids and gives adoptive parents the information they need up front to make a decision about what they can really commit themselves to. Their experience is touching and genuine and they openly share all the ups and downs they deal with everything from ADHD/FAS/RAD to teenage pregnancy. And they do it with such grace and love that you can t help but love them. They have just published a book that is the best resource for pre-adoptive (and adoptive) parents I ve ever seen. --Cindy, Fost-Adopt Parent of 3 in Texas
The Fletcher's deep passion for helping children burns through every page, shaming me even somewhat, as I've nearly been morose lately, faced with such daunting challenges. I personally needed the shot in the arm that their book provided. --(Cindy, mom of 39 in Georgia)
The Fletchers story is not necessarily one that would make all potential adoptive parents view foster care as a viable option but I think it does something even more important. It sheds light on what can be the reality of adopting these kids and gives adoptive parents the information they need up front to make a decision about what they can really commit themselves to. Their experience is touching and genuine and they openly share all the ups and downs they deal with everything from ADHD/FAS/RAD to teenage pregnancy. And they do it with such grace and love that you can t help but love them. They have just published a book that is the best resource for pre-adoptive (and adoptive) parents I ve ever seen. --Cindy, Fost-Adopt Parent of 3 in Texas
About the Author
Bart, a United Methodist pastor, is an intentional and attentive father. He is the family s nurturer, who continues to learn what it means to be a non-anxious presence in the lives of his children. Claudia, an adoption professional, is the family disciplinarian, using techniques she learned as a college administrator combined with years of practical knowledge gained from parenting in the third degree. Together they share the roller coaster ride of parenting children with special needs who have a history of abuse or neglect. They combine a sense of humor, a strong faith, and unconditional love to face their daily challenges. They are the founders of Third Degree Parenting, LLC, an organization whose mission is to empower the written and spoken work of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to encourage, educate and strengthen parents.
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This review is from: Out of Many One Family: How Two Adults Claimed Twelve Children Through Adoption (Paperback)
This book is not at all what I was expecting. I felt it read more like an instructional manual then a book, and there was little depth to each chapter. I was expecting a bit more about their interactions as a family and how the children did once arriving home, etc. It really didn't go much beyond the matching and adoption process, and this repeated many times over. If you have never adopted before and are interested in the process this might be a good book for you. If you have already been through the process you may find it quite repetitive, as I did. I would be more interested to learn more about how this family functions in their day to day life being a family with 12 adopted children.
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This review is from: Out of Many One Family: How Two Adults Claimed Twelve Children Through Adoption (Paperback)
I have followed Claudia's blog for a few years, and loved getting to see further into how her family was formed. This is a wonderful tale of adopting from foster care, both younger and older children. I wish there had been room for a lot more stories!
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This review is from: Out of Many One Family: How Two Adults Claimed Twelve Children Through Adoption (Paperback)
I just finished reading my copy of Out of One Family, Many. I received it in the mail when I got home from work, and found myself staying up until 4 in the morning to finish reading it. I was surprised at what a "page turner" it was!I had expected a somewhat academic or didactic story about foster-adoption, but instead the story of how two unique individuals came together in marriage, and then how they built a family with children adopted from foster care, jumped out of the pages of this book. If you're considering fostering children, or providing a permanent family for children in foster care, this is a must-read. It's the book I've been looking for. This story is real and honest, detailing disappointments and challenges this family faced as they claimed first one child, and then more and more children as a part of their family. Through some remarkable adventures, and past some daunting hurdles, the indomitable spirit of the parents shines through.
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