She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child's lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness.

    Against extraordinary odds she opened the Christina Noble Children's Foundation, a haven of food, beds, medical aid and schooling where the street children of Saigon can find safety and new beginnings under the protection of "Mama Tina".In this vivid and moving book, Christina's compelling story continues with the amazing tale of what she and her Foundation have achieved. She takes us from the streets of Saigon to the Children's Prisons of Mongolia. A staunch campaigner for children's rights, for her there are no frontiers, only a world filled with children reaching out.

    Yet feisty Sloan Baron, the waif's pretty spinster aunt, claimed the boy should be hers. This maddening white woman was already raising two of her brother's cast-off kids - yet her heart made room for one more. Lucas was grudgingly intrigued - and downright infuriated! And Coyote smiled...

    S. Strauss was faced with these questions when she began her search for her birth-mother, and in this inspiring new handbook, she shares her experience. Strauss will help you map out a step-by-step journey that will empower and support you throughout this significant time. Brimming with important reference sources and dozens of true-life stories, this valuable resource will guide you in:

    Here she shows parents how to honestly answer the questions adopted children ask about themselves. She also tells the warmly satisfying story of one child's adoption.

    Lower and lower she sank into a life of prostitution, heroin addiction, physical abuse and daily threats from the vicious pimp she'd hoped would protect her from a worse fate. When two kind strangers appeared out of nowhere and offered Debbie a new life based on Jesus' teachings, it didn't take her long to accept it.