Adoption

Familjehemsmamman Melindas egna ord om kampen för barnen. Lilla Hjärtat är fallet som slutade i en tragedi och som berörde hela Sverige. Treåriga Esmeralda sveks av myndigheterna och tvingades lämna det familjehem som hon hade vuxit upp i sedan sj...

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Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.Aneta and Filip, the children?s parents, are distraught when their...

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The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.Oskar?s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar?s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ?friends?, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arm...

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Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him.Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed with Cathy. Tilly arrives with a graze on her cheek and Cathy becomes increasingly ...

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Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband and eldest son. Struggling to cope, she puts Jackson into foster care.Cathy, his carer, encourages Jackson to ...

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?Impossible to put down, makes you laugh and cry, Sophie?s story is inspirational. It gives us so much hope and encouragement. I don?t think we would be where we are on our own journey without her advice.?OLLIE LOCKE?A read so twisty your heart po...

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When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned.The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be brou...

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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, on a whim, took him and his older brother Aaron in.They came from Southwick, a depressed area of Sunderland, where they liv...

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After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old.At first, she?s no trouble at all, that is until she falsely accuses another carer, Jan, of acting inapprop...

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A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose.Estranged from her parents, Ethan?s mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Eth...

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Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency.The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out party...

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A family with a dark secret.A child who refuses to speak.Rosie must help her before it?s too late.Nine-year-old Caitlin has a secret, but she cannot tell anyone about it. When her mother is sectioned under the Mental Health Act she and her three s...

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Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to...

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Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to...

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Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought ...

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Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way ?Damian is just seven when he is taken in by foster carer Cathy Glass. His mother, Rachel, loves her three young children dearly, but she is vulnerable, naive and unable to cope on her own.Cathy...

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The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey WatsonSix-year-old Amelie lives with her mother, Kelly, who suffers from bipolar disorder. After Kelly attempts to burn down their family house, it becomes clear that her daug...

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Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family. Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding , Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a head...

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Brought to you by Penguin.A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time'When I stepped off the plane in Asmara, I had no idea what lay a...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Aged just five, Saroo Brierley was separated from his family in India when he boarded a train that took him 1500km from his hometown. After weeks surviving alone on the streets of Calcutta, he was eventually adopted by a...

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Tracing Your Roots explores one of the UK's most popular pastimes: researching family history. Bestselling author Sally Magnusson follows the genealogy trail back in time, uncovering facets of social history through personal stories and giving you...

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Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or bi...

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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, ...

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"e;COMMENT UNE MAUVAISE DECISION PEUT-ELLE BRISER LA VIE DE TANT DE PERSONNES ?"e;1984. Marie, dix-sept ans, se retrouve enceinte et est contrainte de l'annoncer a sa mere, qui est bien plus preoccupee par le qu'en dira-t-on que par le bon...

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Maria Jung Yoon adopterades från Sydkorea till Sverige 1968. En flicka på två och ett halvt år och ett äldre, barnlöst par i Norrköping, det kan väl bara sluta lyckligt? Men i själva verket är hon över fyra år gammal och kvar i Seoul finns hennes ...

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"Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill" was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden aunts, the matriarchs of ...

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En äldre dam hittar Elin ensam i en barnvagn, skrikande och med en blöja som behöver bytas. Det är början på Elins ständiga flyttar mellan hemmet med mamman som dricker och olika barnhem och fosterhem. Hon blir snabbt en mästare på att känna in va...

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