Bücher von Lee Varon

The first guide of its kind, covering all stages of the adoption processAdopting on Your Own addresses the questions and concerns of prospective single parents. Lee Varon, a practicing therapist specializing in adoption counseling and the single mother of two adopted children, helps readers make an evenhanded assessment of whether adoption is right for them, then leads them through the different stages of arranging and financing the adoption. She weighs the advantages of open versus closed and international versus domestic adoption for the single parent, and demystifies potentially daunting steps such as choosing an agency and preparing for the home study.Adopting on Your Own also offers up-to-date information on the latest developments in interracial adoption policy, the legal rights of gays and lesbians to adopt, and the evolving attitudes of agencies and social workers toward single-parent adoptions. Throughout the book, Varon draws on personal anecdotes and the experiences of her clients to offer honest, insightful advice on every step of the adoption process.

FIRST PLACE - 2017 SUNSHOT BOOK AWARD | Shot In The Head began as a book about the 1936 shooting of Varon's grandfather by the husband of his lover. But as she wrote, it became less about this violent event and more about grappling with the moral paradox of a grandmother steeped in bigotry and intolerance, yet both loving and loved.

Spare Change News is the nationÕs oldest street newspaper. Since 1992, the paper has been covering issues other media often ignore Ñ inequality, homelessness, culture and resistance.Spare Change News Poems: An Anthology by Homeless People and those Touched by Homelessness, spans over 15 years of poetry the paper has published.