Finding Our Families

Finding Our Families
Author: Wendy Kramer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1101612479

The first comprehensive book that offers invaluable step-by-step advice for families with donor-conceived children. Wendy Kramer, founder and director of the Donor Sibling Registry, and Naomi Cahn, family and reproductive law professor, have compiled a comprehensive and thorough guide for the growing community of families with donor-conceived children. Kramer and Cahn believe that all donor-conceived children’s desire to know their genetic family must be honored, and in Finding Our Families, they offer advice on how to foster healthy relationships within immediate families and their larger donor family networks based on openness and acceptance. With honesty and compassion, the authors offer thoughtful strategies and inspirational stories to help parents answer their own, and their children’s, questions and concerns that will surely arise, including: How to support your children’s curiosity and desire to know about their ancestry and genetic and medical background. How to help children integrate their birth story into a healthy self-image. How to help your children search for their donor or half siblings if and when they express interest in doing so. Finding Our Families opens up the lives of donor-conceived people who may be coping with uncertainty, thriving despite it, and finding novel ways to connect in this uncharted territory as they navigate the challenges and rewards of the world of donor conception.

Help Me to Find My People

Help Me to Find My People
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807882658

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.

Finding Family

Finding Family
Author: Richard Hill
Publisher: Familius
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781945547393

Finding Family: My Search for Roots is Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records.

Unlocking Your Family Patterns

Unlocking Your Family Patterns
Author: David Carder
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1575675242

Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether you're just not sure). Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decades worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health. Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for.

Find Out About: Families

Find Out About: Families
Author: Pat-a-Cake
Publisher: Pat-a-Cake
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Board books
ISBN: 9781526382528

There are lots of different kinds of families. Learn all about them in this fun lift-the-flap book.

My Family, Your Family, Our Families

My Family, Your Family, Our Families
Author: Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 149663618X

Families come in different sizes, but everybody needs people to care about them! How Are We Alike and Different? Find out in My Family, Your Family, Our Families.

Finding Our Fathers

Finding Our Fathers
Author: Dan Rottenberg
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1986
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780806311517

In this work Dan Rottenberg shows how to successfully trace your Jewish family back for generations by probing the memories of living relatives; by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ship passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates, and other public documents; and by looking for clues in family traditions and customs.