Reimagining Adoption- what Adoptees Seek from amilies and Faith In Stock Now

Love is essential yet not enough...Reinvigorate, reshape and improve the way Christians understand and approach adoption!
Reimagining Adoption: What Adoptees Seek from Families and Faith blends personal experience, expert insights, adoptee interviews, trauma research, and scriptural interpretation so The Church and the Christian community can re-envision adoption for the sake of adoptees and their families. Quotations from adoptees and birth mothers keeps adoptees at its center.  Their heartfelt words enliven the book and build a deep empathy for those touched by adoption.Reimagining Adoption: What Adoptees Seek from Families and Faith builds compassion for adoptees and first families as a gateway to truth seeing and truth telling. In that truthful and compassionate space lies the healing and belonging for which adoptees profoundly yearn.It examines beliefs, practices, and Scripture to attune to the needs of vulnerable children and their families and align with Christian values. It examines the historical adoption practices, reviews current practices and proposes revisions. More importantly, it lifts up the words and lived experience of adult adoptees--the true experts on adoption--and braids them with the insights of adoptive families to craft a new adoption paradigm. Readers will learn: 

•    How to become better Christian parents and more supportive faith communities
•    How to answer tough questions and to anticipate who will pose them and why
•    How to clarify Christian adoption beliefs and practices
•    What makes adoptees the true adoption experts
•    How to process the pain of birth parent loss
•    How to validate adoptee grief and loss
•    How to support family preservation
•    How the radical love of Christ must reshape the way we approach adoption
•    How first-hand adoptee/adoptive family accounts can teach us about faith and adoption
•    How to serve vulnerable children and their families with faith, love, and understanding