About Rare Adoption Books

R Rare Adoption Books for Adults refer to books that offer additional information about adoption that has been compiled and approved by domestic, late-discovery, transracial, and overseas adult adoptees.

This rare collection unearths unique perspectives, insights, or information about adoption that you will not find in books written by adoptive parents or profiteers from what has become an international billion-dollar industry known as the global child market to most of the world. This collection also shares narratives from family members separated by adoption worldwide, including parents of loss.

How Did Adoption Start in Seoul, Korea?

The reader will be fascinated by what adopted activists say about human rights violations, search and reunion, identity formation, transracial or transnational adoption, and the life-long aftermath into the adopted person’s elder years.

These stories reveal the additional burdens adopted people are forced to contend with, including the psychological, emotional, social, and legal aspects and lifelong impact of adoption.

These are concerns and issues adoptive parents should not have the authority to speak on, and the profitable child market itself has yet to address.

Guest Author and Adoption Historian Janine Vance

Janine is the pioneering curator of an anthology titled Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, spotlighting the experiences of adult adoptees from Europe, America, Asia, and Africa.

Browse the Collective by Janine Vance

Know More About Adoption Than the Professionals

Adoption History is important

Adoption History

Discover the history of adoption in a condensed book meant to help you see the topic in an organized manner. This research book has been divided into four short, easy-to-read sections: revealing the making of the system throughout time, starting in Europe, America, Asia, and today finally, in Africa.

Adoption Yesterday

The childhood adoption story of the founders of Adoption Truth and Transparency Worldwide Information Network (ATTWIN).

Twins Found in a Box: Adapting to Adoption

Adoption Today

What are adopted people and family members separated by adoption saying today? Read Adoption Quotes from members of the Adoption Truth & Transparency Worldwide Information Network.

Adoption Around the World

Adoption from the view of adoptees is very different from the industry of adoption and the adoptive family. Some adoptees never voice questions about where they were born, the circumstances of their birth, and their curiosity about their first family. There are, however, those who are voicing questions, demanding answers, and questioning the direction of the adoption industry today.

Adoptionland Editorial Review

"Highly recommended for libraries in areas where adoptions are common; highly recommended for universities where students are researching both the long-term effects of being given up for adoption, and growing up adopted. I cannot praise this book enough."
--Lorraine Author of A Hole In My Heart

"ADOPTIONLAND provides us with a much more complete picture of the underbelly of adoption. For me, reading it forced my empathy muscle out of complacency and into a more educated awareness. If we really want to take seriously the statement, "I love kids," then reading ADOPTIONLAND is a requirement so that we can move beyond mere sentimentality and towards long-lasting, genuine care for vulnerable young people." -- Daniel Christian

"We are all connected and need to take care of each other but not by dominating another culture but by sharing resources that allow for biological families to stay intact. I have always thought that I may one day adopt a child from a third-world country, and then I read this book. Boy, I am so glad I did. When I would hear about child trafficking, I always assumed it was “sex trade” I had no idea that it could also include adopted children. Please do your research before you even think about adoption, and if you do, look in your own community, state, and country." -- Cherie

"Everyone who has never thought deeply about the circumstances behind adoption or who innocently thinks of it as a kind and charitable form of rescue needs to read this book. These honest, detailed, and sadly authentic accounts need to be more known and pondered. We also must demand that the laws which now protect secrecy and abuse -- and the special interests which profit from them -- be promptly and drastically reformed to prevent future pain and loss." -- Florence S. Boos

Adoption Books for Adults

*Did you know that 100% of all adult adoptees in the United States and around the world surveyed in 2019 believed they should have access to their adoption documents and original birth certificates if they so wish? However, due to antiquated adoption laws developed and refined by pioneering evangelicals, adoptees--even into their elder years--are not permitted access to information that all other humans on earth are able to obtain for themselves.

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