Are they all yours? Do you run a day care? Is this a youth group? Why didn t you want to have any children of your own? These are questions faced often by parents of large families, but especially by adoptive parents. What makes the Fletcher family s story unique is that their twelve children all came home within twelve years. Five children are Hispanic. One is biracial. Two are Asian. Four are Caucasian. Ten are from four state foster care systems from across the United States, two are from a Guatemalan orphanage. At the writing of this book, they range in age from 10-22 but they arrived between the ages of 9 months and 12 years. Together the family has confronted (and in some cases resolved) a myriad of challenges. Each is a unique individual with special gifts and contributions to make to the world. This book is the account, with helpful wisdom along the way, of an adoptive family s first twelve years, recounting how each child was claimed. Two Adults. Twelve Children. One Family.

Out of Many One Family: How Two Adults Claimed Twelve Children Through Adoption

Parenting & Relationships

Bart and Claudia Fletcher

Adoption

Third Degree Parenting

Okay, Which One of You Took My Sanity? A Fun Guide to Foster, Adoptive, and Other Kinds of Parenting is a humorous he-said/she-said breakdown of parenting strategies. Hilarious true-to-life stories reveal common threads between two families facing unique challenges and even more unique children. Together the stories encourage other parents to embrace change rather than fix family dynamics. Matt and Claudia, both adoptive parents, each exhibit distinctive parenting styles within their own adoptive families. Still, both apply the same principles to pilot the demands of special needs parenting. Fun and laughter might be the primary intention of this Dr. Phil meets Erma Bombeck concoction, but it ruptures with insightful parenting techniques. In between laughs, you might discover that there is something very profound about being a parent... but probably not.

Okay, Which One of You Took My Sanity: A Fun Guide to Foster, Adoptive and Other Kinds of Parenting

Matthew Hoffman

Claudia Fletcher

Stuck in a group home is not how Chico imagined he'd spend his teenage years. Now that he's there, alone, he has plenty of time to reflect on the recent revelations concerning his past. His birth parents and adoptive parents recently met and are now facing challenges of their own. How can a young man plagued by a history of trauma, attachment issues, multiple diagnosis and aggressive behaviors overcome his past? Will the adults in his life be able to work together and help him now that his history has been revealed?

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Out of Many One Family: How Two Adults Claimed Twelve Children Through Adoption

Okay, Which One of You Took My Sanity: A Fun Guide to Foster, Adoptive and Other Kinds of Parenting

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