Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care - Softcover

Berry, Mike; Berry, Kristin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736976795 ISBN 13: 9780736976794

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

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 23 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.   
 

About this title

About the Authors

Mike Berry is cocreator of the award-winning blog Confessions of an Adoptive Parent and the adoptive and foster support site Oasis Community. He's also a contributing writer for Disney's babble.com and TheGoodMenProject.com. Mike and his wife, Kristin, have cared for dozens of children through foster care and have adopted all eight of their children.

Kristin Berry resides just outside of Indianapolis, close to her two grown children, sons-in-law and three adorable grandchildren. She is the former foster mom of 23 children, mom of 8 children, all of whom were adopted, and the wife of Mike. She writes and speaks with her husband at www.honestlyadoption.com, a ministry they started to share hope and encouragement with foster and adoptive families. Most days you can find her reading a book, playing outside with her kids or caring for her family’s pet donkey, Meg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0736976795
• ISBN 13: 9780736976794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208