New Book for Adoptive Parents

I received the following email today from theadoptiveparent.com and thought many of you might be interested.  After I received all the anti-adoption email, all of your wonderful comments, I get this email too.  Funny how that happens.  I am looking forward to reading her book.

Award-Winning Writer Publishes Groundbreaking Book on Adoption

New book offers unique insight into adoption from the adoptive parent’s perspective.

Rochester, NY – February 26, 2010 – Award-winning writer and adoptive parent Sally Bacchetta today announced the release of her new book, What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent's Perspective. The book is described as “a tender, revealing look at adoption from the parent perspective.”Whether an adoptive parent, an adoptee, someone considering adoption, or simply curious about adoption dynamics, What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent’s Perspective will touch hearts and increase readers' sensitivity to the challenges and joys that are unique to adoptive parenting.

Bacchetta wrote the book in response to a need common among adoptive families. “Adoptive families navigate emotional terrain that fully-biological families don’t have to,” said Bacchetta, adoptive mother of two. “This is a book adoptive parents can give to their child and say, ‘I know adoption is painful, unsettling, joyous, and affirming. It’s that way for me too. More than anything, adoption is the way we came together, and I’ll always be grateful for that.’”

“Sally has written a narrative that is heartfelt, honest, and warm,” said Greg Franklin, Esq. and Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. “She’s told her story truthfully and without sugar coating, but also with knowledge from which I would have benefitted had the book been written before my family embarked upon our own journey to adoption. The readers of this book are lucky to have the benefit of Sally’s experience and her shared wisdom, because her story reminds us that we have so much in common.”

Bacchetta’s words echo with the collective voice of over 100 adoptive parents interviewed for this book. With chapters like “I Would Do it All Again”, “You Are Not Different Because You Were Adopted,” and “I Regret What I Can’t Give You,” What I Want My Adopted Child to Know is by turns affirming, challenging, thoughtful, wistful, and poignant.

The book is available at all major online booksellers, including Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Tapestrybooks.com andBorders.com.

About Sally Bacchetta

Sally Bacchetta is an award-winning writer and sales training consultant with more than a decade of experience in medical writing, magazine journalism, and corporate communications. She draws on her educational and professional background in psychology and counseling to illuminate the private thoughts of adoptive parents with sensitivity and startling honesty. Bacchetta is the Rochester Adoptive Families Examiner and her articles have appeared in national and local publications including Genesee Valley Parent magazine. Bacchetta also blogs about parenting and adoption at www.theadoptiveparent.blogspot.com.