Out of the Shadows: Stories of Adoption and Reunion
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Author: Linda Back McKay
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“This book should be read by everyone who has adopted a child, as our family has. To say that love conquers all is not enough when the day-to-day work of building a family tests love as well as courage and what we thought we knew of our own capacity of patience. If it sounds impossible, it isn’t. Linda Back McKay shows us the human capacity to love is our best gift.”
-Laura Waterman Wittstock, retired nonprofit executive, author, parent, and grandparent
“As an adoptive parent, I know what sorrow follows when children are separated from their original mother: Did she love me? Then why did she give me away? The intimate, heartfelt life stories of American birthmothers collected in this volume will help adoptees discover more truthful, satisfying answers than the ones they may have been given, not least because they expose the shaming judgments and unjust practices that governed the mothers decisions. We as a society will become more enlightened about these matters only as more ‘shadow mothers’ speak their truth."
-Cheri Register, author of
Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects On Raising Intertationally Adopted Children
and "Are Those Kids Yours?" American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries
Reviews:
“This book should be read by everyone who has adopted a child, as our family has. To say that love conquers all is not enough when the day-to-day work of building a family tests love as well as courage and what we thought we knew of our own capacity of patience. If it sounds impossible, it isn’t. Linda Back McKay shows us the human capacity to love is our best gift.”
-Laura Waterman Wittstock, retired nonprofit executive, author, parent, and grandparent
“As an adoptive parent, I know what sorrow follows when children are separated from their original mother: Did she love me? Then why did she give me away? The intimate, heartfelt life stories of American birthmothers collected in this volume will help adoptees discover more truthful, satisfying answers than the ones they may have been given, not least because they expose the shaming judgments and unjust practices that governed the mothers decisions. We as a society will become more enlightened about these matters only as more ‘shadow mothers’ speak their truth."
-Cheri Register, author of
Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects On Raising Intertationally Adopted Children
and "Are Those Kids Yours?" American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries