Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Sealing one’s fate (pp. 1-4)
Chapter 2 – What’s overt and what’s covert (pp. 5-10)
Chapter 3 – International adoption: How it’s organized (pp. 11-14)
Chapter 4 – To be an orphan (pp. 15-18)
Chapter 5 – Orphanages (pp. 19-24)
Chapter 6 – The adoption business (pp. 25-32)
Chapter 7 – Parents as consumers (pp. 33-38)
Chapter 8 – “He’s the One!” (pp. 39-46)
Chapter 9 – When to tell the child the truth (pp. 47-50)
Chapter 10 – Fears (pp. 51-54)
Chapter 11 – Love and prejudice (pp. 55-62)
Chapter 12 – The body doesn’t lie (pp. 63-68)
Chapter 13 – Choice and control in adoption (pp. 69-76)
Chapter 14 – Magdalena’s performance (pp. 77-82)
Chapter 15 – The child of our dreams (pp. 83-90)
Chapter 16 – Waiting for the phone to ring (pp. 91-98)
Chapter 17 – The power of faith (pp. 99-104)
Chapter 18 – A different kind of family (pp. 105-110)
Chapter 19 – ‘Ghosts in the nursery’ (pp. 111-116)
Chapter 20 – ‘Georgia on my mind’ (pp. 117-124)
Chapter 21 – A child from a good home (pp. 125-132)
Chapter 22 – Pages from a social worker’s notebook: Chronicles from encounters with adopting families (pp. 133-136)
Chapter 23 – “So where is your mother?” (pp. 137-140)
Chapter 24 – They say that Mira resembles her mother and father (pp. 141-142)
Chapter 25 – “We saw you, we fell in love with you” (pp. 143-144)
Chapter 26 – I gave her up because I had no choice (pp. 145-146)
Chapter 27 – Leonard writes his parents from there (pp. 147-148)
Chapter 28 – Jared learns what a mother is (pp. 149-152)
Chapter 29 – “Thanks to his parents, you have that wonderful Jared” (pp. 153-156)
Chapter 30 – Princess or frog (pp. 157-162)
Chapter 31 – Like grandma, like mother (pp. 163-164)
Chapter 32 – Choices (pp. 165-168)
Chapter 33 – Family day (pp. 169-170)
Chapter 34 – Only three weeks (pp. 171-174)
Chapter 35 – Caught between two worlds (pp. 175-180)
Bibliography
About the authors
Index
