Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care

Discover What Adoption and Foster Care Really Look Like
 
If you are considering adoption or foster care or are already somewhere in this difficult and complicated process, you need trusted information from people who have been where you are.
 
Mike and Kristin Berry have adopted eight children and cared for another 23 kids in their nine-year stint as foster parents. They aren’t just experts. They have experienced every emotional high and low and encountered virtually every situation imaginable as parents. Now, they want to share what they’ve learned with you.
 
Get the answers you need to the following questions, and many more:
 
Should I foster parent or adopt? How do I know?
 
What is the first step in becoming an adoptive or foster parent?
 
What are the benefits of an open versus closed adoption?
 
How and when do I tell my child that he or she is adopted?
 
How do I help my child embrace his or her cultural and racial identity?
 
Honestly Adoption will provide you with practical, down-to-earth advice to make good decisions in your own adoption and foster parenting journey and give you the help and hope you need.   
 

• Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption
• The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family
• Winning the Heart of Your Child
• Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting
• Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel
• Faith, Hope, & Connection: A 30-Day Devotional for Adoptive and Foster Parents
• Replanted: Faith-Based Support for Adoptive and Foster Families (Spirituality and Mental Health)
• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
• No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting
• Adopting in America: How to Adopt Within One Year (2018-2019)