...Reading List...

Adoptive Parents

• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adopted Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge

• Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Irwin Johnston

• Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina

• Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber and Phylis Speedlin

• Children of Open Adoption by Kathleen Silber and Patricia Martinez Dorner

• Adoption is a Family Affair by Patricia Irwin Johnston

• Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall

• The Handbook for Single Adoptive Parents by Hope Marindin

• Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss by Claudia L. Jewett-Jarratt

Birth Mothers/Families

• The Spirit of Open Adoption James L. Gritter

• Dear Birthmother Kathleen Silber

• The Open Adoption Experience Lois Ruskai and Sharon Kaplan Rosiza

• Saying Goodbye to A Baby Patricia Roles

• Lifegivers James L. Gritter

Texas Baptist Home has some of these books available to read.  Others are available at your local bookstore.