Books, booklets & multimedia

Related by Adoption: A handbook for grandparents and other relatives

	Price: £6.50 70 pages	BAAF, February 2004 ISBN 978-1-903699-39-3

If your son or daughter is planning to adopt a child (or children), this brief handbook gives grandparents-to-be and other relatives information about adoption today that will directly affect you.

This includes the need today for a more open approach to adoption and information about the children who need to be adopted - rarely the babies of earlier times but children with pasts and families, and who may be damaged by earlier abuse and neglect. The author discusses how the wider family can support building a family through adoption and can be involved in both the good and the bad times that inevitably occur in family life.

Hedi Argent is herself a grandmother and adoption trainer. She writes from the heart, using many real-life quotes and stories of adopted children and their relatives to bring the book to life. One chapter has been jointly written by a parent of a family group of 15 children (Kate Cairns), now a grandmother, and her own parents (Joyce and Eric Stanway), now great-grandparents to the children.

The book finishes with an endpiece 'what can you do?' and there is a list of useful organisations and suggestions for further reading. It will make an ideal gift for close family members of new or prospective adoptive parents.