Family Stories of Adoption

Please find some of our best articles, essays and reviews on this topic.

For more topics and articles, check out our full listing on our Resource Library.

These stories highlight adoptive and birth families who have worked with Pact and their individual adoption journeys. From bringing home a child, to ongoing parenting issues, to openness in adoption, these stories will introduce you to other families much like yours, or the one you are hoping to form.

If you prefer, you can use our Library Search Tool to search by title or author. All the material in this section is copyrighted by Pact; for permission to reproduce or re-post it, please contact us at education@pactadopt.org.

• A Different Kind of Normal
  by Joan McNamara (1998 | 339 KB | )
  
• A Father From the Beginning
  by George Harrar (2011 | 111 KB | )
  
• Ask Pact: Keeping it "Real," How to Talk About All Your Child’s Parents
  (2011 | 119 KB | )
  
• Beginnings
  by Susan Ito (2005 | 88 KB | )
  
• Does Fost-Adoption Encourage Healthy Growth?
  By Jodee Kulp (1995 | 333 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Black Enough To Be Your Mother? Too White To Be Your Mother? Becoming Seneca?s Mothers!
  by Pact (2009 | 147 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Carnegie & Sons
  by Pact (2009 | 130 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Eddie Junior: Becoming a Family
  by Pact (2008 | 125 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: I Wish I Could Stay At Pact Camp Forever
  by Martha Rynberg (2007 | 136 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Juantia, Lucas & LuzMari: Latino Culture
  by Pact (2008 | 123 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Long Distance Adoption - The McMullens
  by Pact (2009 | 132 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Surprise Adoption
  by Jill Rege (2008 | 956 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: What Sophia Needed, Open Hearts, Open Minds
  (2011 | 1.85 MB | )
  
• Family Stories: While You Wait -- A Chance to Learn & Grow
  by Pact (2010 | 1,011 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Zora’s and Ezra’s Families Connected by Blood ... and Love
  by Pact (2010 | 162 KB | )
  
• Mia’s Art: What I Learned From My Daughter’s Self Portrait
  by Elise Crum (2010 | 101 KB | )
  
• Pact Family Stories
  (2012 | 2.54 MB | )
  
• Recognizing Loss
  Becca Martinson (1994 | 106 KB | )
  
• Speaking of Birth Parents
  by Marta Barton and Beth Hall (2000 | 125 KB | )
  
• When Do You Follow When Do You Lead - Talking to Children About Adoption
  by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall (2002 | 127 KB | )
  
• When Racism is Part of the Story
  by Beth Hall & Gail Steinberg (1998 | 128 KB | )
  

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