The October 2007 issue of the RainbowKids.com e-newsletter contains a review of my new book, The Adoption Network: Your Guide to Starting a Support System.
Some excerpts from reviewer, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza:
The Adoption Network takes a look at the benefits of a support system in the adoption community and at the various aspects of filling the need for it. [Laura] speaks for those who are silently waiting for someone to reach out to them, as well as for those who want to reach out, but don’t know how……Though the expected targets of these services are prospective and practicing adoptive parents, I appreciate that Christianson also writes meaningfully about how to set up groups for other members of the adoption community in need: first parents, the extended families of both first and adoptive parents, foster parents, parents in disrupted adoptions, parents of special needs adopted children, emancipated foster children, and adopted adults…
…Though I found Christianson’s book to be particularly useful for anyone starting an adoption-related support group in their church or community, it might also be a great resource for first time adoptive parents interested in showing others how to reach out to them. Whether you’re feeling inspired or isolated, The Adoption Network will be an invaluable help.
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