Adoption & Fostering

A celebration of the work of Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) in Alberta, this collection of essays describes the agency`s bold new model t...

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old. ...

In Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at...

A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child.But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks P...

Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevies social worker tells Cathy, an e...

For Cris and Miguel, creating a family will take a little luck and lots of determination. A Chance is the engrossing, heartwarming story of their s...

'The authentic inside track... Gripping' Lemn Sissay'An important and hugely powerful book... So inspiring, I loved The State of It' Neil Morrissey...

Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, on a whim, took him and his older brother Aaron in. They came from Southwick, a...

Officers from the RSPCA investigate reports of animal cruelty and neglect on a farm, only to discover a 5-year-old boy curled up asleep in a dog be...

Approval follows would-be parents David and Cici through a series of forays into the past as they go through the motions of applying to adopt a chi...

In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to...

In the much-anticipated follow-up to Sunday Times bestseller Trapped, foster carer Rosie Lewis tells the heartbreaking true story of 13-year-old Za...

An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industryChild sponsorshi...

Octavia is adopted, but has material advantages. However, her childhood innocence is short-lived when she discovers the truth about her family from...

Barby Keel is used to all manner of creatures arriving at the door of the Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary where she lives and works, deep within the Su...

From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. ...

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...

Despite a proliferation of legislative action in response to differential outcomes, the relative educational, employment and lifecourse disadvantag...

This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for i...

'Stella is just like a tiny bird. This is my first impression of her. A quiet little sparrow of a girl.'In her brand-new series 'Thrown Away Childr...

Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for pr...

Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have s...

Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence...