Providing a series of photocopiable illustrations, it is a source of effective ready made material.This book contains exercises and pictures specifically designed to ease the process of talking about feelings. It helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageble and insoluble problems into a new perspecitve. It offers opportunities to rehearse other ways of functioning by trying out alternatives safely on paper in exercises that can be adapted for any age range and ability. This is a superb non-verbal counselling tool.

    It describes and clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss which affects the relationships of the adopted person throughout life.. It is a book about pre-and perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding, and loss. It gives adoptees, whose pain has long been unacknowledged or misunderstood, validation for their feelings, as well as explanations for their behavior. It lists the coping mechanisms which adoptees use to be able to attach and live in a family to whom they are not related and with whom they have no genetic cues. It will contribute to the healing of all members of the adoption triad and will bring understanding and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt abandoned..

    This book has the sort of pictures that could have been in your photo album, if someone had been in Korea with a camera at the baby's home, in the foster home, even on the airplane ride to America. You will see the kinds of people and places your children may have experienced. Most of all, you will appreciate the love and concern of the generous people in Korea who helped your children along their way to you. The book opens with a sensitive discussion of the birthparents, who found themselves in a difficult situation and made a plan for their children to have a new life with a new family. It then talks about the foster mother, the social workers, the doctors and nurses, and many others who had a part in caring for your children and in bringing them to you. This book will be read and enjoyed by 7-to-12 year-old children and their parents, and it can be shared with younger children to help them learn more about their life before coming to you. All ages will be very interested to see the pictures taken at Eastern's Baby's Home, in foster homes, around the Eastern Child Welfare Services offices in Seoul, and on a typical airplane flight to the United States. The text, particularly as it deals with the issue of the birthmother's difficult decision, will offer some insight as well as opportunity for further thought and discussion. The book will surely become a wonderful keepsake for your family, providing a better appreciation and understanding of your children's first homes. When You Were Born in Korea was developed as a fund-raising effort by two adoptive dads who began this project to give their own children a better understanding of their lives as babies, and of those people who were important to them then. About the Author: Brian Boyd is the father of two Korean-born daughters, and works in publishing in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen Wunrow is a professional photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a proud father of three, two of whom were adopted from Korea. His photographs are also featured in When You Were Born in China.

    

    Carrying a wide variety of cargoes to such destinations as the Potteries, the textile mills of Lancashire, the papermills of London, the colleges of Oxford, they struggled on against increasing competition from rail and road traffic to maintain their place in the country's economy. Yet, little has been recorded about the lives of the canal families, and in particular, the women.

    This practical, informative book covers topics of vital importance to adoptive parents with sensitivity and insight. The authors bring years of experience to the complex emotional issues that parents will negotiate, and expert advice on establishing a healthy, loving parent-child relationship.

    A psychiatrist looks at his own black market adoption.