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This fully updated edition of The Happy Life Story tells the history of an inspiring children's home project near Nairobi, Kenya. It is told through the eyes of Sharon Emecz, who after 20 years on the corporate treadmill in London, took a career break and spent a month in Africa including volunteering at Happy Life Children's Home. This new edition shares the great progress from 2014 to 2018. There are new stories, case studies, and news about the school and the children's hospital.

Son of My Soul - The Adoption of Christopher is not just about the joys of motherhood, but is also a self-help audiobook about breaking the circle of child abuse. The author considers her childhood as "boot camp" and uses the lessons learned from her own abuse to help her beloved son through many surgeries and therapies to correct cleft lip and palate.

For a moment, imagine everything you thought you knew about your life, your parents and siblings, your entire identity, turned out to be some sort of twisted fiction. Add a bit of cloak and dagger to the mix, and you'll have an idea of where this story takes you. You're not really who you thought you were - you're actually someone else in the same familiar body you've always known. You need to begin a new life story, putting the puzzle pieces in place as you go along.

Sally grew up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, her childhood world filled with mystery and intrigue. Hippies trailed through the kitchen looking for God - their leader was Aunt Di, who ruled the house with charismatic force. When Sally’s baby brother vanished from his pram, she became suspicious of the activities going on around her. What happened to Baby David and the woman called Poor Sue? And where did all the people singing and wailing prayers in the front room suddenly go?

During a travel in Romania as a social clown, in October 2006, together with my friends we visited an institute hosting orphaned. The children were more than a hundred and the service staff in total counted no more than six people. In particular, I was impressed by a child among many; although he was three years old, he wasn’t able to speak. No one spent time teaching him. Something broke and, at the same time, something was born in me. It was a new awareness that, left for years at the bottom of my heart, day after day, pulse after pulse, helped me in writing this audiobook.

Durante un viaje como clown social en Rumania, en octubre del 2006, con mis compañeros visitamos un Instituto que hospeda menores huérfanos. Los pequeños eran más de cien y el personal de servicio no llegaba a ser más de seis encargados en total. En particular, me impresionó un niño entre los tantos, que a pesar de que tuviera 3 años, no era capaz de hablar. Nadie había perdido tiempo en enseñárselo. Algo se quebró y algo contemporáneamente nació en mí.

She never imagined the pursuit to parenthood would involve the emotional assault of an adoption agency's flexible morality or invasive surgical procedures that brutalize both their bodies - but it did. Lauri M. Velotta-Rankin and her husband were sent overseas by an unscrupulous adoption agency to chase the ghosts of children they'd never bring home. After turning to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a life-threatening diagnosis sent them reeling with fear and to the brink of emotional collapse.

Turbie was the slowest turtle in the shop. His hopes of being adopted did not stop. The perfect little boy won his heart. With speedy wheels they will never part.

In 1961, a baby daughter was born to a single, 18-year-old girl, in London, England. By April, the young girl had left England for South Africa, and the baby had become Penny Bunton, the daughter of quite another family, in Cambridge, England. Through a series of stories, beginning from earliest memory and going on through half a century of life, this chronicle examines family and the power of hidden histories, looks at the ability of love to corrupt and destroy and to raise up and heal.

Irina es una niña que vive en un orfanato, en el Polo Norte, y siempre está pintando flores y peces. Pero un buen día una señora viene a buscarla. La adopta y se la lleva a vivir con ella a Madrid. Irina pronto se acostumbrará a la vida en la ciudad, y será feliz. Pero de pronto, un día, un dolor intenso en las piernas la obliga a guardar cama. Su madre sabe que ese mal repentino tiene que ver con su origen, e inician un viaje de vuelta al Polo Norte....

Rejected by her mother and excluded by her school, Flip is a little girl desperate to be loved. ‘Am I ugly, Mummy?' are the first words that little Phillipa says to Mike and Casey as she stomps into their lives on a hot August afternoon. She has a Barbie doll in one hand and a pink vanity case in the other, and the bemused Watsons can only stare in amazement at this tiny eight-year-old girl who is being guided into the room by her social worker.

One rainy night on the Zambian savannah, a mother’s heart moves the hand of God. From a land laid waste by disease and drought emerges this incredible story of courage, suffering, and the ultimate triumph of the power of God’s love. This is the true story of an infant born in the bush of southern Zambia at the height of the worst drought in years. That tiny life was awaiting the traditional burial - lying on the chest of her mother, who died during delivery.

Это книга для тех, кто очень хочет стать мамой. Беременность — важный шаг, требующий серьезной подготовки. Авторы книги, Анатолий Некрасов и Ширин Араз, рассказывают о самом важном, что влияет на зачатие, беременность и рождение ребенка. Здесь вы найдете ответы на вопросы, которыми часто задаются будущие родители. Готовы ли вы к этому? Почему вы долго не можете забеременеть? Как подготовить себя и партнера? Когда лучше зачать ребенка? Как образ жизни, правильное питание и принятие себя способствует здоровью малыша еще до его зачатия? Почему дети "уходят"? Как подготовиться к ЭКО и усыновлению?

In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children.

If you think her only options are parenting and abortion, this book is for you. American adoption is nothing like it used to be. Those forced, secret adoptions hurt women and their children. Thankfully, adoption in the US has changed dramatically. If you never thought about suggesting adoption, (and never thought you would!), this book is for you.

Fostering children is a way of providing a temporary family for children, who cannot live with their own parents. Fostering can be a rewarding and challenging experience for both the foster carers and the children. There are many reasons why children may need foster care, such as abuse, neglect, family breakdown, illness, or disability.

When his step-father suffers a stroke on St. John Island, Greg Haynes rushes to his bedside to support his mother. Meeting a gorgeous law intern comes as a bonus for the generous computer expert who navigates life without worries or responsibilities. After experiencing pain and betrayal, Heidi Benton focuses on her law studies with one purpose in life—to graduate and recover her money back from the scumbag who stole it. To achieve her goal, she swears off trust and commitment. The threat of a hurricane hitting the island forces everyone to evacuate and turns Greg and Heidi’s lives ...

Sune er i Peru. Hans mor og far har lige hentet hans nye lillesøster Lea, ligesom dengang de tog til Peru for at hente ham. Nu er hele familien i byen Cusco. Her møder Sune drengen Lalo. De to drenge ligner hinanden både af udseende og alder, men der er stor forskel på deres liv. Sune går i skole i Danmark, mens Lalo arbejder som skopudser på en markedsplads. Sune vil gerne være venner med Lalo, men kommer til at gøre ham sur i stedet. Bliver de to drenge venner alligevel...

Dean var kun 15 måneder gammel, da han blev anbragt uden for hjemmet. Hans mor var stofmisbruger, og hans far var ikke inde i billedet. Deans papmorfar og morens to veninder ville gerne have beholdt ham, men da de ikke havde nogen biologiske bånd til den lille dreng, tog systemet over, og de næste mange år var Dean anbragt skiftevis hos plejefamilier og på opholdssteder.

Having running thoughts through your mind. The only way we can impregnate someone with our thoughts is to write about it.