Helpful resources for adoptive families

Focus on the Family Canada’s counsellors are frequently asked to recommend resources on the topic of adoption. Here’s a list of their favourite titles. Most of these titles are available from Focus on the Family Canada’s online bookstore.
 

Motivation for adoption: Why adoption?

Adopted for Life

Adoption: Families Stepping Out in Faith

Adoption: Making a Difference in the Life of a Child

Foster Parenting: Providing Homes for Waiting Kids

Hannah's Hope: Seeking God's Heart in the Midst of Infertility, Miscarriage and Adoption Loss

The Rosatis: Our Family's Adoption Story
 

Preparation for adoption: How adoption?

Attachment in Adoption

Forever Mom

Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family

Hope and Healing for Sensory Deprivation

Love and Loss in Foster Care

Preparing for a Transracial Adoption

 

Supporting families: Helping families with adoption

A Modern Day Orphan

A Servant's Heart

Launching an Orphan's Ministry in Your Church

Wrapping Around Adoptive Families
 

Children: Feeling good about adoption

Adopted and Loved Forever

Before You Were Mine

Do I Belong? Reassuring Kids Adopted From Foster Care

The Chosen One
 

Post-adoption: Succeeding at adoption

Caring for Kids From Hard Places

God, Are You Nice or Mean?

Parenting Adopted Adolescents

The Connected Child

The Connected Parent

Wounded Children, Healing Homes