To Keera With Love

Pregnant and single, Kalya M. Becker was luckier than many teenagers. She had the support of her family and a group of good friends to help her through her pregnancy. When she was a senior at a Catholic high school, she learned she was going to have a baby. The father, hundreds of miles away at a military base, said, "Get an abortion. It's the only answer." To Keera With Love is the dramatic story of one teen's journey from early childhood in a healthy, happy and protected home environment to the harsh reality of becoming a mother too soon. Kayla Becker and her two brothers, raised by a divorced mother, a successful regional media broadcaster, learned that a family can stick together and deal with a personal crisis productively.To Keera With Love is a story of courage and of pain many teen mothers go through while making live decisions for herself and her child.

Everyone has dealth with at least one of the issues listed in this book at some point in his/her lifetime. Whether that issue was conquered with the help of a loved one, through therapy, or is still weighing on the individual, the therapeutic power of the book is often overlooked. The reassurance gained when an individual learns that they are not the only one, can open several doors of communication, and can put one on the road to recovery or coming to terms with an issue. In schools, bibliotherapy can greatly increase the connectivity of curriculum to the individual student. -- cover.

"Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians . . . an important addition to the literature on adoption." ---Choice "Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution." ---Library Journal "Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption." ---Adoptive Families "[T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research." ---Social Service Review Adoption affects an estimated 60 percent of Americans, but despite its pervasiveness, this social institution has been little examined and poorly understood. Adoption in America gathers essays on the history of adoptions and orphanages in the United States. Offering provocative interpretations of a variety of issues, including antebellum adoption and orphanages; changing conceptions of adoption in late-nineteenth-century novels; Progressive Era reform and adoptive mothers; the politics of "matching" adoptive parents with children; the radical effect of World War II on adoption practices; religion and the reform of adoption; and the construction of birth mother and adoptee identities, the essays in Adoption in America will be debated for many years to come.

This book is meant to provide an overview of and gather the literature on abortion -- one of the most divisive issues of our times. Honest women and men the world over must deal with this issue in their hearts and minds whether or not they ever face the issue personally. It is hard to conceive of a single thinking person who doesn't have an opinion on abortion -- usually strongly held. The arguments are cogent on both sides of the issue. We hope that this collection will bring to the attention of readers the publications which shed light on the fundamental issues involved.

Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. Taking this history into the early twenty-first century, Melosh offers unflinching insight to the contemporary debates that swirl around adoption: the challenges to adoption secrecy; the ethics and geopolitics of international adoption; and the conflicts over transracial adoption.

On planet Earth, Granddad Badger, whose real name is Albert, discovers his astrology charts purpose when he discovers the ancient astrology and anthology occult book as an astronomer and scientist after he retires from the chief of police position. His best friend, Archangel Ariel, is on Earth to carry out Gods duties and responsibilities by stopping the bad spirits coming to Earth and taking over the newfound planeta flying planetwhen their other friend, Mr. Coldwater, and his hoard of cats begin to act suspicious. Granddad Albert and Flight Boss Archangel Ariel decide Mr. Coldwater cant be trusted. The bad spirits fail to use Mr. Coldwater and his devoted cats as a body vessel on Earth for long as they fight off the bad spirits with their unconditional love frequencies. Eventually, as the love and vibration frequencies take over the dark spirits and as darkness cannot attack light, the bad spirits had to find another way to possess the planet Earth. They knew the highly intelligent humans, even the cats and animals, proved too hard to possess by the bad spirits. They eventually found their way into planet Earths realm of reality in the form of an objectthe robots frequencies and vibrations that the humans thought they were creating. But it was a way for the robots possessed by bad spirits to take over Earth and create their own power and race. This is where Mr. Coldwater really comes through for his friends, Flight Boss and Granddad Albert. Mr. Coldwater knows whats going on, and hes the only one that knows how to stop his artificial solar system created by himself as a scientist to sustain Earth once the sun died. It was the only way to stop the robots from getting access in and attack the Butterfly Heaven planet where Flight Boss lives, and the possessed robots wanted to expand and take over many other planets and the human beings. Another book by the author is Life in Retrograde.