Adopting Alyosha
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Adopting Alyosha
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Author : Robert Klose
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2023-03-02
Adopting Alyosha written by Robert Klose and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-02 with Family & Relationships categories.
Although single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture. However, Robert Klose, who is single, wanted a son so badly that he faced down the opposition and overcame seemingly insurmountable barriers to realize his goal. The story of his quest for a son is detailed in this intimate personal account. The frustrating truth he reports is that most adoption agencies seem unsure of how to respond to a single man's application. During the three years that it took for him to proceed through the adoption maze, Klose met resistance and dead ends at every attempt. Happenstance finally led him to Russia, where he found the child of his dreams in a Moscow orphanage, a Russian boy named Alyosha. This is the first book to be written by a single man adopting from abroad. The narrative of his quest serves as an instructional firsthand manual for single men wishing to adopt. It details the prospective father's heightening sense of anticipation as he untangles bureaucratic snarls and addresses cultural differences involved in adopting a foreign child. When he arrives in Russia, he supposes the adoption will be a matter of following cut-and-dried procedures. Instead, his difficulties are only beginning. Although he meets kind and generous Russians, his encounter with the child welfare system in Moscow turns out to be both chaotic and bizarre. However, his dogged ordeal pays off more bountifully than he ever could have hoped. In the end he comes face to face with a little boy who changes his life forever.
Adopting Anton
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Author : Robert Klose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-08-20
Adopting Anton written by Robert Klose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-20 with categories.
Single women have a long and successful track record as adoptive parents, but single men seeking to adopt have had a tougher time of it. And yet the need for role models in this regard exists, if for no other reason than to offer hope to those men who want to adopt but are daunted by the seeming immensity of the challenge. Available children tend to live in countries that are both traditional and conservative and think in terms of "mother and child" but rarely "father and child." Presuming that his already being an adoptive parent (he had previously adopted a boy from a Russian orphanage) would make a second attempt easier, Robert Klose was nevertheless confronted by a Ukrainian bureaucracy hobbled by its Soviet origins, as well as the vagaries of personalities in whose hands his fate would rest. The result is a harrowing narrative full of characters both picaresque and sympathetic, with all the actors, including the author, playing their roles in the chaotic aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Adopting Anton is the story of a single man's determination to bring a five-year-old boy to a new home in America, but not knowing, until the last moment, whether his efforts would result in failure or success.
The Russian Adoption Handbook
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Author : John H. Maclean
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004
The Russian Adoption Handbook written by John H. Maclean and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Family & Relationships categories.
For: Stephen & Mary Perch.
Adopted
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Author : Suzanne Buckingham Slade
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2013-01-17
Adopted written by Suzanne Buckingham Slade and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-17 with Family & Relationships categories.
The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teens, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem. Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide enables young adults to read about the personal experiences of other adopted teens, and gain powerful insights from those who have gone through some of their same frustrations, struggles, and concerns. This revised edition features discussion questions at the end of each chapter that help teens address various concerns, such as fitting in, deciding whether or not to search for their birth parents, meeting their birth parents, and what defines a family.
Small Worlds
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Author : Robert Klose
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2006
Small Worlds written by Robert Klose and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Collected essays by Robert Klose, longtime contributing essayist for the Christian Science Monitor. In a style comparable to that of Garrison Keillor and Jean Shepherd, Klose shares his experiences raising adoptive sons, stories of traveling abroad, memories of his childhood, and depictions of life in his small Maine community"--Provided by publisher.
A History Of Marriage
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Author : Elizabeth Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
A History Of Marriage written by Elizabeth Abbott and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Social Science categories.
What does the "tradition of marriage" really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition that includes same-sex unions, arranged marriages, dowries, self-marriages, and child brides. Marriage—in all its loving, unloving, decadent, and impoverished manifestations—is revealed here through Abbott's infectious curiosity.
Moving Past Marriage
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Author : Jaclyn Geller
language : en
Publisher: Cleis Press
Release Date : 2023-05-09
Moving Past Marriage written by Jaclyn Geller and has been published by Cleis Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Family & Relationships categories.
A must-read for anyone who has felt they are at a disadvantage simply because they are single or unmarried. Married Americans enjoy over 1,000 benefits and entitlements that are withheld from our non-marital counterparts. Health insurance, immigration rights, tax privileges (such as the estate tax), and hiring policies favor the married. Marriage is subsidized and incentivized by the federal government. Social customs such as blockbuster weddings, subsidized honeymoons, and gifts reserved for wedded couples reify matrimony as a centering norm and further the idea that "marriage is best," a commonplace in popular psychology, where marriage-averse people are often tarred as "commitment-phobes." Despite this blatant and widespread prejudice, non-marital Americans—non-marital people—have not galvanized as a group to demand equality and inclusion. Why? Moving Past Marriage argues that it is because of our troubled relationship to history. As women's history once was, non-marital history has been buried, so that the disenfranchisement that non-marital people share in wedlock-dominated societies, as well as our remarkable, far-ranging achievements, have been hard to spot. In recovering our own history, non-marital people can become self-aware as a group and begin to challenge marriage-centric thinking and practice.
Strangers And Kin
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Author : Barbara MELOSH
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Strangers And Kin written by Barbara MELOSH and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Family & Relationships categories.
Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. Taking this history into the early twenty-first century, Melosh offers unflinching insight to the contemporary debates that swirl around adoption: the challenges to adoption secrecy; the ethics and geopolitics of international adoption; and the conflicts over transracial adoption.
My Quest To Be A Single Dad
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Author : Garry White
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2009-11
My Quest To Be A Single Dad written by Garry White and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with Adoption categories.
Author Garry White's instinctual desire to love and provide a home for disadvantaged youth has been denied again and again on the basis of what appears to be personal bias and an isolated episode of mental illness several years in the past. In My Quest to Be a Single Dad, Garry fights the social implication and double standard that single men are unfit to be parents. Anyone involved in social family services or potential adopters will be intrigued by this determined author's tale of continued rejection and social stigmas. Single adults hoping to adopt will also find valuable tips on the dos and don'ts of adoption, many of which Garry had to learn the hard way.
Long Live Grover Cleveland
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Author : Robert Klose
language : en
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Release Date : 2015-06-22
Long Live Grover Cleveland written by Robert Klose and has been published by Medallion Media Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-22 with Fiction categories.
Grover Cleveland College is dying, and the shock is too much for the college’s founder and president, Cyrus Cleveland—a direct descendant of President Grover Cleveland—who begins to die in tandem with his school. In a last bid to save his beloved institution, he wills the college to his nephew Marcus Cleveland, a used car salesman in New Jersey who has never been to college, much less administered one. Marcus heads north to see what he can do to live up to his uncle’s expectations and save the day. Facing the impending calamity with cheer, an incorrigibly sunny attitude, and ample naivete, he is totally unprepared for the stew of discontented faculty, internecine rivalries, and unforeseen events that threaten to upend his every effort to rescue the school from the threat of extinction.