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  • Genre:FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
  • SubGenre:Parenting / Motherhood
  • Language:English
  • Pages:52
  • Paperback ISBN:9781667893808

Adopting a Family for You

A Love Story

by Brenda Buchanan Saltzer

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Overview

The best kind of stories are love stories. In beautifully illustrated storybook format, Adopting a Family for You: A Love Story, portrays the complexity and beauty of a mother's love. Share the journey of a birth mother who places her child into the arms of others to parent. If you've ever loved a child, reached for something you couldn't grasp, or faced an impossible decision, this book is for you. An apologetic for adoption, voice for birthmothers, healing assurance for adoptees, and tribute to the value of every human life.

Description

Experience a journey of mother's love in this beautifully illustrated storybook, Adopting a Family for You: A Love Story. What story is more sacrificial and courageous than the love of any woman who takes a hard look at today and tomorrow and chooses the best possible future for her child and herself? And yet the birth mother is most often mistakenly judged as having rejected and selfishly abandoned her child. This unjust stigma attached to the woman who places her child for adoption has made our world a far more difficult place for women and a far less hopeful place for children. No story is more bittersweet and complex than the love of this woman for her child. Yet a birth mother's voice is not often heard, her story untold and uncelebrated, leaving adopted children to believe they were abandoned and rejected. If you've ever loved a child, reached for something you couldn't grasp, or faced an impossible decision, this book is for you. An apologetic for adoption, voice for birth mothers, healing assurance for adoptees, tribute to the value of every human life and testament to mother's love. This book helps shift the often negative perception of the women who place their child for adoption.

About the author

Brenda Buchanan Saltzer has devoted more than 25 years to woman-centered family advocacy. She has served as a legislative consultant for women and children's support issues, is an author, speaker, businesswoman and transformational life and business coach. She loves traveling, reading, kayaking, and facilitating connections between women and causes. Brenda lives with her husband at the ocean's edge in South Beach, Oregon. She has 3 beautiful daughters and 4 perfect grandchildren.