adopted children

Nine months after the McGuanes adopt a daughter, they learn that the birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and when they try to handle the situation personally, they learn something unsettling about the boy and his father, a powerful judge in Denver, while trying to protect their child.

Autobiography of Tim Green, a former professional football player, discussing his life with the family who adopted him as an infant and his search for his birth mother.

A collection of opposing essays examining topics related to adoption including international policies, citizenship, father registries, birth certificates, and racial issues.

Private Investigator Quinn is invited by Alex Krapp, a Hollywood screenwriter, to help prove the existence of fifteen-year-old Danny Timpkins, an abuse survivor whose story is being adapted into a screenplay, while a "Vanity Fair" reporter sheds doubt on the story's veracity.

Examines the effect of open adoption on children of various ages.

Profiles the life of Ana Dodson, the founder of an organization that provides food and clothing to Peruvian orphanages, discussing her childhood, inspiration, hard work, and benefits of her efforts.

Novelist A. M. Homes describes her troubling experiences meeting her biological parents at the age of thirty-one after her birth mother, who conceived her during an affair with an older, married man, sought her out--and even stalked her--and describes her search for more information on both her biological and adoptive parents' lives and families after her birth mother's sudden death.

An illustrated account of Jim Limber, a slave child who was taken in by the family of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and raised along with the Davis children until being kidnapped by Yankees.

Martha feels like she is losing everyone when her adoptive mother gets pregnant and her birth mother announces she is getting married and moving away, and she begins to lash out and make her anger known.

Recounts Roger Bechan's long journey through the Oklahoma orphanage system in the 1930s and 1940s, describing the unique characters he met, his troubled childhood, his feelings of abandonment, and other related topics.