All the Sweeter

Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care

Jean Minton

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631524967
• Year: 2019

All the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family’s adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical chapters that explore the common challenges these families face, including the complications that accompany transracial adoptions, helping children understand adoption, relationships with birth parents, and raising a traumatized child. Each year, over 50,000 children are adopted from the US Foster Care System.
Informative and diverse in scope, All the Sweeter provides a resource to families considering adoption, families in the process of adoption, and families who have already adopted children from foster care—with the ultimate goal of facilitating a better life for the children they bring into their lives.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Three Languages, Two Religions, One Family: The Fletcher Family
• Chapter 2: All of the Kids Right Here: The Trevino Family
• Chapter 3: Helping Your Children Understand Foster Care and Adoption
• Chapter 4: An Inspiring Toolbox, Rituals Included: The Allen Pierce Family
• Chapter 5: Unintentional Fost-Adopt: The Keller Family
• Chapter 6: Diverse Families Reform the Norm
• Chapter 7: Come and Meet My Children: The Booker Family
• Chapter 8: Patchwork: The Schneider Family
• Chapter 9: Transracial Adoption
• Chapter 10: It’s Hard: The Watts Family
• Chapter 11: Girls: 6, Boys: 1, Game Over: The Butler Family
• Chapter 12: Raising a Child with a History of Trauma
• Chapter 13: Unexpected Blessing: The Walters Family
• Chapter 14: Supposed to Be: The Olson Family
• Chapter 15: Relationships Between Adoptive and Birth Families
• Chapter 16: Out of the Ordinary: The McPherson Family
• Chapter 17: All the Sweeter: The Bolton Family
• Conclusion
• Foster-Adoption Steps
• Endnotes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author