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All applicants are required to read the Pact Manual, "Parenting After Adoption."
In addition, you must read two of these titles (your choice):
| H. David Kirk | Shared Fate | 14.00 |
| Melina and Roszia | The Open Adoption Experience | 13.00 |
| Holly van Gulden | Real Parents, Real Children | 14.95 |
| David Brodzinsky | Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self | 12.95 |
| Patricia Irwin Johnston | Launching a Baby's Adoption | 22.95 |
If you are adopting for the first time, you must also read one of the following books (your choice):
| Patricia Irwin Johnston | Adopting After Infertility | 14.00 |
| Jill Krementz | How It Feels to Be Adopted | 15.00 |
| Kathleen Silber | Dear Birthmother | 20.95 |
| Merry Jones | Birthmothers | 21.95 |
If you are adopting across racial lines, you must also read:
| Pact Manual | Transracial Adoption: Being a Family of Color | 1 copy free to clients |
and you must read one of the following books (your choice):
| Drs. Darlene and Derek Hopson | Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society | 10.00 |
| Marion Wright Edelman | Measure of Our Success | 10.00 |
| Drs. Darlene and Derek Hopson | Raising the Rainbow Generation | 10.00 |
| Jane Lazarre | Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness | 12.95 |
These books are all available, at discounted members' rates, through Pact.
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