Next on the list, the post-adoption blues: overcoming the unforeseen challenges of adoption. Joel will be reading I'm Chocolate You're Vanilla.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Educational Reading
I am reading the book, The Girls Who Went Away: The hidden History of women who surrendered children for adoptio in the decades before Roe V. Wade. It is a great book. It is not cheerful or uplifting as you can imagine, but it does give lots of insight in to what it must be like to be a birth mother. It's heart breaking that most birth mothers in the 50's and 60's had little to no support (or choice) when surrendering their children for adoption.
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I read the girls book a few years ago--lots of it really stuck with me. Reading passes time, and makes your brain biggerer too
Let me know what Joel thinks of Chocolate/Vanilla ... I liked it a lot but found it differed from many other books/articles I had read before that.
I'm currently reading Does Anybody Else Look Like Me by Donna Jackson Nakazawa....and I highly recommend it. My next will likely be Chocolate/Vanilla.
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