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Books Written For and By Adoptees

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
- Discusses anger, mourning, and shame experienced by adoptees, as well as the importance of adoption acknowledgment. Also provides case studies.

The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child

- Explains the complex processes that an adopted child faces throughout life, and how best to cope with difficulties that arise through adoption

Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness

- Details a variety of losses and gains that affect the development and coping mechanisms of adoptees, as well as psychological stages of development.

Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience
- Examines adoption from the perspective of the adoptee, adoptive parents, and biological parents

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
- Story of a seven-year old adoptee who struggles with the death of her biological parents and, upon adulthood, learning that her birth mother was alive.

Whose Child?: An Adoptee's Healing Journey from Relinquishment through Reunion

- Account of an adoptee's struggle with self-esteem, substance abuse, and intimacy

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