The gift of adoption : a journey to parenthood / Anne Hutchison.
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TextPublisher: Summer Hill, NSW : Love & Write Publishing, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: v, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925564334Subject(s): Hutchison, Anne | Hutchison, Alan | Adoptive parents -- Australia -- Biography | Families -- Australia -- Biography | Parent and child -- Biography | Intercountry adoption | Older child adoptionGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 306.874 | 362.734089 Summary: The desire to be a parent can be a powerful emotion. It drove Anne and Alan to keep going after the death of their first child, and the miscarriages and unsuccessful IVF attempts that followed. Their dream was eventually realised through inter-country adoption. Although they thought they were well prepared when they drove through the gates of the orphanage in Manila, in fact they knew very little about the reality of bringing two young siblings from a very different culture into their lives. Almost everything about their new lives was scary, and there was so much for them all to learn. Anne and Alan's adoption experience was everything they hoped for, but the journey was rarely what they expected. Travel along with them to discover how they used their love for each other and their incredible strength to build enduring bonds of love and trust with their children, overcoming tremendous odds to form a family that belonged together.
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The desire to be a parent can be a powerful emotion. It drove Anne and Alan to keep going after the death of their first child, and the miscarriages and unsuccessful IVF attempts that followed. Their dream was eventually realised through inter-country adoption. Although they thought they were well prepared when they drove through the gates of the orphanage in Manila, in fact they knew very little about the reality of bringing two young siblings from a very different culture into their lives. Almost everything about their new lives was scary, and there was so much for them all to learn. Anne and Alan's adoption experience was everything they hoped for, but the journey was rarely what they expected. Travel along with them to discover how they used their love for each other and their incredible strength to build enduring bonds of love and trust with their children, overcoming tremendous odds to form a family that belonged together.
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