Adopting After Infertility

Adopting After Infertility
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Adopting After Infertility
JOHNSTON
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Great place to start.......2007-09-28

I think this was a well written book, that covered many topics on adopting after going through the craziness of infertility. I actually felt empowered and like I had options when reading this book. My husband and I are now on the road to adoption. Not everything in this book applies to every situation, but it was great to read.

Loved It.......2007-02-07

This is by far the best book I read after my journey through infertility and as I began considering adoption. My husband and I now have a 3 1/2 year old son from Russia and we are in the process of adopting child number two. The truth is that adopting is extremely different from having a biological child and it is very important to work through your emotional issues before becoming an adoptive parent. I am grateful that I took the time to work through the issues addressed in this book before adopting my son. I am a better mother as a result. I highly recommend this book!

Spend your money elsewhere.......2006-12-07

There was not much useful information in this book (unless you like being talked down to), and I also noticed a lot of incorrect information in what there was. The author comes off as pompous and sort of a "know it all" in many areas, which is a bit odd for a person who obviously doesn't know as much as she is claiming to know. Our family has adopted four children over the recent years, all in separate adoptions, and I can tell you for a fact that the author is way off base in some of her claims. I would not recommend this book to anyone because adoption is a very tricky process, and a lot can go wrong, especially if you are following incorrect information from a supposed "expert" such as in a book like this.

Excellent.......2006-03-01

Of all the books and many, many websites my husband and I have read since we began looking into adoption, "Adopting After Infertility" ranks near, if not at, the top of my list. The best part about this book is how sympathetic Johnston is to [prospective] adoptive parents. I've gone back to this book a few times, after reading more elsewhere and learning more, for her balanced, direct, and kind style. As well as easier on the psyche than others, "Adopting After Infertility" is informative. Not as in depth regarding laws (state by state, country by country) as other sources, there is plenty to get you started in knowing the types of adoption and choices available. Invaluable for making me feel human. An excellent starting point and grounding reference along the way as we encounter the daunting realities. Emotionally, Johnston keeps the reader in line by reminding us that, though we don't have choices or resources we might wish to, we DO have many, which she describes quite well and accurately, providing information unavailble in the "how to" stlye accounts or in the "pro" or "con" material. Johnston is soft and kind, and empowering at once. If you are considering adoption, whether or not you are infertile, I highly recommend this book.

So not what I needed to hear!!!.......2004-10-28

I read this book shortly after dh and I decided to look into adoption. The author goes on and on about getting through your grief over infertility and it made me even more depressed about my situation!! She goes through different stages that a couple has to grieve before they are ready to move on and adopt such as the grief of never sharing a pregnancy with your spouse, the grief of never having a biological child etc. etc. etc. To me, adoption is not about grieving over what I am going to miss out on, it is about embracing life's path and looking at what I do get to experience such as the joy of finding out there is a child for us, and the excitment of sharing the adoption experience with my dh. IF sucks, I will be the first one to admit that!!! But life is what you make of it and I don't think that I need to grieve all these different steps before I am ready to embrace adoption.

One Nation, After All : What Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, The Right, The Left and Each Other

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Thorough insight into middle class america
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One Nation, After All : What Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, The Right, The Left and Each Other
Alan Wolfe
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Few academics write as crisply as the sociologist Alan Wolfe, and even fewer are capable of making the penetrating insights that sprinkle the pages of this engaging study of suburban psychology. Based on 200 extensive interviews with middle-class Americans, Wolfe's study uncovers a striking tolerance. Americans, according to the author, can be quite harsh when judging their own behavior, but they exhibit a hands-off approach with others. (Wolfe also cites an exception to this rule: homosexuality.) Americans are not torn apart by any kind of cultural war, contrary to the claims of intellectuals on both the right and left. Instead, writes Wolfe, they are a practical people willing to accept social change. Forget the shallow opinion polls that appear every few days in the news. One Nation, After All comes closer to the real pulse of the American people than just about any other you will find.

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The subject of great critical acclaim and extensive review attention, One Nation, After All concludes that the reports of cultural divides are highly exaggerated, and Americans agree about much more--on religion, family, race, and morality--than politicians and media pundits would have us believe. These are among the surprising findings reached by renowned sociologist Alan Wolfe after two years of listening to middle-class citizens in eight communities around the nation.

In frank and often moving language, middle-class Americans, "left" and "right," express their views about immigrants of all races--whom they welcome but insist should learn English and work hard--and about giving a second chance to the deserving poor but not to the undeserving. They are remarkably tolerant on questions of religion, affirmative action, and family issues--but not about homosexuality.

Wolfe's study, which has already had an impact on the way we discuss domestic politics, disproves thought cliches that have wrongly polarized Americans, and shows the many values that hold our nation together.

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Alternative alternative views.......2006-03-07

Though I have not read this book, the last review begs for a response... if you are interested in accounts that go beyond the red and blue divisions and explore similarities, I recommend "Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America" by Morris Fiorina, a Stanford political scientist.

"Culture War?" is a marvelous little book, arguing that the great majority of Americans (i.e. all American citizens minus political elites and extremists) really agree on most of the issues we are often led to consider divisive and insurmountable. I don't personally swallow Fiorina's argument whole, but it certainly contains a lot of truth and valid arguments. In either case, it is a refreshing and thorough alternative view - concise and wonderfully smooth to read, too.

As I have not read the Wolfe Book, I'll go with the average in terms of stars, don't take the rating seriously.

Thorough insight into middle class america.......2001-10-23

I had to read this book for my introductory Sociology class, and did so purely out of requirement. However, what I found was that I actually liked the book. It was excellently written and the research behind it was sound. It offers a glimpse into the American middle class that is both interesting and important. I look forward to reading more books by Alan Wolfe.

Hard to Read? Yes...but worth it.......2001-06-06

I agree with Denise's review that this book offers hope more than anything else. It is rather academic, and does make you want to put it down.

Nonetheless, in a world where TV commentators routinely portray Americans as "us and them" based on, say, their presidential vote, it is refreshing to read of alternative views. We are more similar than dissimilar - it just won't make for an electrifying show on "Crossfire" or "Hardball".

Professor Wolfe does have some unifying themese throughout the book, which does raise this from 3 to 4 stars in my view. Without them, it's not an easy read.

In fact, I'd recommend printing a condensed version of this. Say, a NY Times Sunday Magazine-length story or even a Reader's Digest one. The story it tells is that important.

Comforting Piece of Social Research.......2000-01-25

One Nation After All is an excellent analysis for a fascinationg social research project focusing on the American Middle Class.

The study and subsequent analysis is a well thought out, detailed work packed with citations and comparisons.

As an added plus, the study shows that overall, the American Middle Class is basically a tolerant, reasonable group of people who prefer NOT to tell others how to live their lives.

For the uninitiated, research papers are writtin in the passive voice! This may require some adjustment on the part of the reader.

Almost impossible to read.......1999-11-11

The author appears not to have intended for anyone to actually READ this book. Its sentences are horrendously overlong; those few meanings which aren't badly obscured by the turgid writing are overly subtle, and in many cases underwhelming. Don't bother trying to read this.

Citizen, Mother, Worker: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War (Gender & American Culture.)

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Citizen, Mother, Worker: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War (Gender & American Culture.)
Emilie Stoltzfus
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During World War II, American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded child care programs. At the end of the war, working mothers vigorously protested the termination of child care subsidies. In Citizen, Mother, Worker, Emilie Stoltzfus traces grassroots activism and national and local policy debates concerning public funding of children's day care in the two decades after the end of World War II.

Using events in Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and the state of California, Stoltzfus identifies a prevailing belief among postwar policymakers that women could best serve the nation as homemakers. Although federal funding was briefly extended after the end of the war, grassroots campaigns for subsidized day care in Cleveland and Washington met with only limited success. In California, however, mothers asserted their importance to the state's economy as "productive citizens" and won a permanent, state-funded child care program. In addition, by the 1960s, federal child care funding gained new life as an alternative to cash aid for poor single mothers.

These debates about the public's stake in what many viewed as a private matter help illuminate America's changing social, political, and fiscal priorities, as well as the meaning of female citizenship in the postwar period.

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A different time.......2004-06-23

Stoltzfus studies the roughly twenty years after World War 2, and the social attitudes in the United States towards women, in that time. She found that picking the topic of whether a government (federal or state) should offer child care to women in the workforce was a good focal point. It let her study the women's efforts to get this maintained after the war years, when it was introduced as an emergency measure. Plus, the reactions of the lobbied politicians and bureaucrats were typical of the prevailing social attitudes towards working women.

It really has not been that many years ago. Yet the echoes from these pages makes it seem like another era. Probably it was. When any employer could fire a female employee soley because she got married, or pregnant, with any risk of opprobrium.

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Dialogue instead of repression and shame.......2006-05-30

Susan Kuklin provides a primer for talking about suicide in her book: After a Suicide: Young People Speak Up. The book has two sections. The first section is composed of first person transcripts from interviews with family, friends, and community members affected by a suicide. Brothers, sisters, an entire family, schoolmates, siblings, counselors, and a son give their accounts of coping with suicide. Stages of grief are explained, therapy is modeled usually (but not always) as a positive step, anger is explored, and the stigma and silence historically surrounding suicide is discussed. The interviewees range in age from the teens to late twenties, though the suicides they experienced may have happened much earlier when the interviewees were children. The second section of the book is composed of transcripts from people who have either considered or attempted suicide, because of depression, learning disabilities, addiction, or sexual identity crises. One unique chapter in this section is a composite of hot-line calls to model a real life suicide-prevention phone counseling session for readers.

Kuklin writes for her audience. The prose is unadorned, the speakers are young adults, and difficult emotions are conveyed simply and without judgment. The book's structure of presenting survivors' stories foremost is important for two reasons: empathy and prevention. First, survivors may have been recommended the book by a helpful person. Also some may have found this book in an effort to help formulate questions about their firsthand experience with suicide, because they have never discussed suicide due to culturally associated stigmas. Both of these groups will find stories within the book similar to their own. The book covers a large gamut of events and circumstances: friends knowing about the suicide before it took place, discovering a body, surprising as well as premeditated suicide, searching for why, survivor's guilt and exaggerated sense of responsibility, suicide notes, and teen and parental suicide. Survivors, at any stage in the grief process, can find a story that speaks to them concerning their loss.
Second, the book is structured as a preventative tool. Young Adults (YAs) considering suicide may pick the book up to intellectually explore their suicidal thoughts. Firsthand accounts of friends and family struggling for years coupled with portraits of the long-term damage done to relatively innocent people and whole communities may sway some YAs from further considering suicide. When these YAs are softened by the emotional wreckage and gradual recovery of those left behind, they will be ready to read the second section. YAs then may be ready to find empathy with people who considered and attempted suicide. Formal therapy and informal discussion is consistently championed throughout the book to combat harmful silence. Starting on page one, Kuklin's approach to openly confronting guilt, embarrassment, and shame concerning suicide is admirable. Plenty of harmful behaviors can be prevented if survivors are encouraged to speak, instead of the struggling alone with repression and pain.

Living Suicide .......2005-04-14

Have you ever lost somebody because they committed suicide? It must feel terrible to lose somebody to suicide. After a Suicide is a nonfiction book written by Susan Kuklin that discusses this serious topic.
In this book it tells so many melancholy stories about kids and adults situations. In this book it shows you what clues to look for when a person commits suicide. Many kids kill themselves because they are hurt and always depressed. There are adults who have health issues that they can't control, and can't be cured.
I think that killing yourself isn't going to solve anything; it is going to make things even worse. Many people don't realize how much it hurts their family because of their deaths. There are times when we all feel down and depressed and we don't know what to do. Unfortunately, many people kill themselves. The author message's is committing suicide doesn't solve anything. It just hurts your family a lot.
"I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it." This quote means if he didn't have a choice he couldn't commit suicide because he doesn't have the strength.
I recommend this book to all kids and adults. This book isn't just a teen book. It is an admirable book. This is a book that everyone can connect to. I also recommend this book because some parents don't talk to their children about suicide.
Susan Kuklin is an amazing author. Other books Susan Kuklin wrote was Speaking Out, Fighting Back, and What to do now?
By: Ashley Lewis

Living Suicide.......2005-04-12

Great book if you've had a suicide in community or family.......1998-01-13

This book doesn't tell the reader what should have been done or could have done to save the person who committed suicide. Instead it tells the stories of the survivors whose loved ones took their own lives. It was a powerful resource that I used in working with high school students who lost a classmate to suicide. I just made it available to students to check out. So far, I have only had good reports from them.

Better books out there for answering the "why" question........1996-08-04

This book immediately begins with, "there are no answers to why a person commits suicide." That is false. If the author would have educated herself on neurobiological brain disorders and their link to suicide, she would have found that many times, the "whys" can be answered. The book does give accurate information about suicide grief though, and what many people experience after such a tragedy. I realize this is a book recounting personal stories, but it also would have been a perfect opportunity to explain why many suicides occur and this book fails to accomplish that.

A Place To Call Home: After-school Programs For Urban Youth

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A Place To Call Home: After-school Programs For Urban Youth
Barton J. Hirsch
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Across the political spectrum, there is enormous interest in how local community organizations can help raise children who are growing up in poverty. This timely book examines the processes and outcomes at six inner-city Boys & Girls Clubs—one of the leading youth development organizations in the country. Featuring critical analysis and practical guidelines from a well-known authority on early adolescence, this information-packed volume:

* Demonstrates how after-school programs emphasizing staff mentoring can provide critical resources for helping urban youth navigate the tumult of early adolescence.
* Includes engaging stories, the voices of adolescents, examinations of their interaction with staff, and analysis of the linkage between these relationships and youth well-being.
* Examines how savvy staff embrace positive dimensions of youth culture to enhance program effectiveness.
* Includes specific guidelines for how these types of after-school programs can build on what they do best, including how to incorporate selected aspects of more structured approaches.
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The result of research conducted over a 40 year period.......2005-06-10

The result of an impressive and accessible scholarship, A Place To Call Home: After-School Program For Urban Youth by Barton J. Hirsch (Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University) is the result of research conducted by the author over a four-year period at six Boys & Girls Clubs located in low-income, predominately minority, urban neighborhoods. This study documents the crucial support that after-school programs provide urban youth with case illustrations, insightful analysis, and verbatim field notes. Enhanced with an extensive bibliography and an index, A Place To Call Home is strongly recommended reading for students of Urban Studies, Child Psychology, Education and School-Age Child Care issues.

Making Play Work: The Promise of After-School Programs for Low-Income Children

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Making Play Work: The Promise of After-School Programs for Low-Income Children
Robert Halpern
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Families and Their Health Care after Homelessness: Opportunities for Improving Access (Health Care Policy in the United States)

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Families and Their Health Care after Homelessness: Opportunities for Improving Access (Health Care Policy in the United States)
Linda M. Havir
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Doing Without: Women And Work After Welfare Reform

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Doing Without: Women And Work After Welfare Reform

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The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the story of welfare reform from inside the lives of the women who live with it. Cases from Chicago and Boston are combined with a focus on San Antonio from one of the largest multi-city investigations on welfare reform ever undertaken. The contributors argue that the employment opportunities available to poorer women, particularly single mothers and ethnic minorities, are insufficient to lift their families out of poverty. Typically marked by variable hours, inadequate wages, and short-term assignments, both employment and training programs fail to provide stability or the kinds of benefits—such as health insurance, sick days, and childcare options—that are necessary to sustain both work and family life. The chapters also examine the challenges that the women who seek assistance, and those who work in public and private agencies to provide it, together must face as they navigate ever-changing requirements and regulations, decipher alterations in Medicaid, and apply for training and education. Contributors urge that the nation should repair the social safety net for women in transition and offer genuine access to jobs with wages that actually meet the cost of living.

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Making Work Pay: America After Welfare

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Leading experts and journalists offer an incisive, wide-ranging critique of welfare reform. In the four years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it," millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers in the fields of social policy and public affairs to examine the effects of the new national prosperity on the working poor—to ask what happened to the second half of President Bill Clinton's welfare reform, which was supposed to "make work pay." As Robert Reich notes in his introduction, "like other ideas that have had the misfortune of becoming political slogans, 'making work pay' went from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence." This book, which originated as a special double issue of The American Prospect magazine, brings coherence to the original notion, and updates it for a new century. In Making Work Pay, leading policy analysts and journalists examine the broad fallout of welfare reform: Marcia Meyers shows how welfare offices undermine welfare reform; Naomi Barko reveals how the gender gap in wages hits low-income workers hardest; Harold Meyerson describes the growing movement to organize low-wage workers; and Michael Massing details welfare-to-work programs that actually work. Arriving as Congress considers the reauthorization of welfare reform, and including reports of state programs, Making Work Pay is a timely contribution to a pressing debate.

Social Work After the Americans with Disabilities Act: New Challenges and Opportunities for Social Service Professionals

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Social Work After the Americans with Disabilities Act: New Challenges and Opportunities for Social Service Professionals
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