Adoption After a Biological Child: A biological and adoptive mother's story of attachment and unconditional love

by Holly Marlow

Overview

From the author of award-winning children's story books, Delly Duck, Room in the Nest, and other stories about adoption, fostering and kinship care, comes an emotional and informative account of the unique challenges and joys of adopting after having a biological child.

When Holly and Jon Marlow decided to adopt from foster care, they wondered how much having a child already would affect the adoption process, and how the process would affect their daughter. With warmth and vulnerability, Holly shares her personal experiences, delving into the approval and matching process, introductions, attachment issues, therapeutic life story work and contact with her son's birth family.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186005070
Publisher:	Holly Marlow
Publication date:	06/16/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	759 KB

About the Author

Holly Marlow is a British author and parent to both biological and adopted children. Holly strives for a gentle/therapeutic parenting style and this has led her to create stories to help children to understand some of the emotional and practical complexities of foster care, kinship care, special guardianship and adoption.

Holly enjoys spending time with her family, travelling (especially searching for chameleons, geckos and snakes in the wild parts of Africa) and learning foreign languages. Holly has fibromyalgia and has spent a lot of time trying to raise awareness of the chronic pain condition, giving presentations in schools and universities. Holly also enjoys baking and gardening, and is terrible at both.

For more information, please visit hollymarlow.com