Download or read book Memoirs of an Adopted Child written by Thomas F. Liotti and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was this Thomas Liotti whose name appeared on Mary Sirchia’s Ancestry relatives list? Listed as a second cousin, he had an unfamiliar surname and his identity remained as mysterious as his connection to the family. Who was his mother? Who was his father? Why such a family secret? Was it a scandalous affair? When Mary requested he share his family tree, Thomas suggested she read his book The Secret Adoption. While reading the book the mystery began to unfold. Mary recalled a story of her cousin who gave birth to a baby boy on May 29, 1947 and gave him up for adoption six days later. She believed the mysterious second cousin now had an identity – Thomas F. Liotti. The power of Mary’s love brought the family together and initiated his welcoming into his new family.

Download or read book Twice Born written by Betty Jean Lifton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic memior of Betty Jean Lifton's search for her secret past that helped open the way for so many others. Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adtoped that have helped open the field, tells her own story of growing up adtoped in the closed adoption system. Calling Twice Born both an autobiography and a psychological journey into the past, Lifton takes the reader with her as she describes the loneliness and islolation of an adopted child cut off from the knowledge of her heritage. She explores the ambivalence and guilt that she feels toward her adoptive parents when she awakens as an adult to her need to ask: Who am I? With the mounting suspense of a detective novel, Twice Born explores not only the difficulty of searching for one's past when one's records are sealed, but also the complexity of trying to reunite with the birth mother from whom one has been separated by social taboos--and by time. More than a vivid and poinant memior, Lifton has given hs a story of mothering and mother-loss attachment and bonding, secrets and lies, and the human need for origins. Important reading for anyone touched by these issues and by the experience of adoption--which is everyone.

Download or read book Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J Loosing written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lady Morgan s Memoirs written by Lady Morgan (Sydney) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lady Morgan s Memoirs written by Sydney Morgan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.

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Download or read book Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington written by George Washington Parke Custis and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trauma and Self written by Charles B. Strozier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection of original essays, written by prominent scholars recognized for their achievements in a wide range of disciplines, defines trauma as a disruption in the fragile process of symbolization, or the human capacity to imbue life with meaning by representing the self's immortality. The contributors analyze the multiple meanings and deeper significance of trauma, whether of shell-shocked war veterans or victims of sexual abuse, and they discuss its manifestations, both subtle and obvious, in human behavior and memory. Organized as an honorary volume to Robert Jay Lifton, who identified trauma as the core psychological issue of the postmodern world, this book demonstrates how trauma and other fundamental breaks in human continuity inform psychiatric, historical, religious, literary, political, cultural, and scientific interpretations of the self.

Download or read book Lady Morgan s Memoirs written by Sydney Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Saint Simon Says Memoirs of a Reformed Catholic Schoolboy written by C.W. Emge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awkward, cringeworthy, mortifyingly honest and refreshingly vulnerable, emerging author C.W. Emge's first collection of essays is simultaneously hyper-personal and universally relatable. Part confessional, part poignant reflection, the stories are a witty, light-hearted look at blue-collar spirituality through the lens of Catholicism, growing up as an adopted child in the Midwest during the eighties and early nineties and the lasting cultural significance of tight-rolled Z Cavaricci pants and paisley-print silk shirts.

Download or read book Memoirs of George Selwyn and His Contemporaries written by John Heneage Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoirs of Mirabeau biographical literary and political by himself his father his uncle and his adopted child ed by the last Transl written by Gabriel Lucas de Montigny and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adoption in America written by E. Wayne Carp and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians . . . an important addition to the literature on adoption." ---Choice "Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution." ---Library Journal "Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption." ---Adoptive Families "[T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research." ---Social Service Review Adoption affects an estimated 60 percent of Americans, but despite its pervasiveness, this social institution has been little examined and poorly understood. Adoption in America gathers essays on the history of adoptions and orphanages in the United States. Offering provocative interpretations of a variety of issues, including antebellum adoption and orphanages; changing conceptions of adoption in late-nineteenth-century novels; Progressive Era reform and adoptive mothers; the politics of "matching" adoptive parents with children; the radical effect of World War II on adoption practices; religion and the reform of adoption; and the construction of birth mother and adoptee identities, the essays in Adoption in America will be debated for many years to come.

Download or read book Imagining Adoption written by Marianne Novy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEngaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists /div

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