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Your support helps this work go further.
Through donations and purchases, you help The Forgotten Adoption Option create and provide resources that make foster care adoption easier to understand, talk about, and navigate.
Shop books for people considering foster care adoption, K-12 books and resources that help kids understand and talk about foster care adoption, and It’s Okay to Talk About Adoption, designed to bring adoption conversations into workplaces, universities, faith communities, and everyday life. You can also take my How to Write the Book in Your Heart course to bring your own story to life.
Proceeds help fuel my nonprofit work, from equipping families considering foster care adoption to helping raise a generation that sees themselves represented, better understands the experiences of others, and knows they can be an advocate or ally.
Every purchase helps move the mission forward.
BOOK BUNDLES
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Considering adopting through foster care? Start here.
This two-book bundle helps you explore whether foster care adoption could be right for your family and better understand what saying yes can actually look like.
The Forgotten Adoption Option helps you reflect on the decision to pursue foster care adoption, while What to Know When You Adopt Through Foster Care offers real-life stories and practical guidance for the journey ahead.
Together, they help families move from “Could we?” to “What would this really mean?”
Includes:
The Forgotten Adoption Option
What to Know When You Adopt Through Foster Care
Both paperback books are signed by Marcy Bursac.
Bring foster care adoption into the classroom through age-appropriate stories and meaningful conversation.
This K–12 bundle pairs Are You a Forever Family? for elementary students with Ready or Not?, a graphic novel for middle and high school students.
Both books are supported by free, ready-to-use educational resources that help students see themselves and their families represented, better understand the experiences of those around them, and recognize that they can be an advocate or ally right now.
Perfect for educators, counselors, librarians, youth leaders, homeschool families, and adoptive families or allies who want to help bring these conversations into schools.
Includes:
Are You a Forever Family?
Ready or Not?
Both books are signed by Marcy Bursac.
The whole conversation, in one collection.
This five-book bundle brings together resources for families considering foster care adoption, K–12 classrooms, and the places where broader conversations about adoption happen.
Explore whether foster care adoption could be right for your family. Better understand what the journey can look like. Help children and teens see themselves and their families represented. Bring meaningful conversations into classrooms. And help make talking about adoption more normal in workplaces, universities, faith communities, and everyday life.
Together, these books represent the heart of The Forgotten Adoption Option’s work: raising a generation that sees themselves and their families represented, isn’t afraid to talk about foster care adoption, better understands the experiences of the people around them, and knows they don’t have to wait until adulthood to be an advocate or ally.
Includes:
The Forgotten Adoption Option
What to Know When You Adopt Through Foster Care
Are You a Forever Family?
Ready or Not?
It’s Okay to Talk About Adoption
All five paperback books are signed by Marcy Bursac.
WANT TO PUT THESE RESOURCES IN SOMEONE ELSE'S HANDS?
You don't have to need these books yourself to help them reach someone who does. Donations help The Forgotten Adoption Option provide resources to prospective adoptive families, child welfare professionals, and educators across the country.
INDIVIDUAL BOOKS
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The book that inspired a national nonprofit dedicated to helping more children find permanent, loving families through foster care adoption. More than an introduction to the process, this self-reflection and how-to guide helps prospective adoptive parents determine whether foster care adoption is the right path for their family.
Through practical guidance, personal experience, and thoughtful reflection questions, you'll gain a clearer understanding of how foster care adoption works while exploring whether your family is ready to take the next step.
Inside you'll discover:
How foster care adoption really works
Common myths and misconceptions
Reflection questions to guide your decision
Practical next steps for prospective adoptive parents
Encouragement from a family who has walked the journey
Continue Your Journey
This book pairs perfectly with the Foster Care Adoption Simplified Overview Course, a 45-minute introduction to the foster care adoption process designed to answer the questions families ask most often. When you're ready to move from reflection to action, the course provides a clear overview of what to expect and how to get started.
Are You a Forever Family? is a children's book that helps young readers understand foster care adoption, celebrates adoptive families, and introduces the hope of a forever family for children waiting in foster care. Through engaging illustrations and an age-appropriate story, it creates meaningful conversations about adoption at home, in classrooms, and in libraries.
Young readers will discover that families are formed in many ways while learning about the thousands of children waiting to be adopted from foster care. The book encourages empathy, belonging, and hope while helping adults answer children's questions with confidence.
Perfect for:
Families beginning conversations about adoption
Elementary classrooms and school libraries
Foster, adoptive, and kinship families
Grandparents, relatives, and adoption allies
Continue the Conversation
This book is the companion book for the Junior Edition of the Foster Care Adoption Awareness Reading Program, providing educators and families with ready-to-use lessons and activities that build on the story.
What to Know When You Adopt Through Foster Care is a practical guide for prospective adoptive parents who are ready to move forward. Covering 45 real-life topics through anonymous stories and actionable insights, it helps families confidently navigate every stage of the foster care adoption journey—from deciding to adopt and completing training to home studies, matching, legal processes, and parenting.
Written from the perspective of families who have walked the journey, this resource offers practical encouragement, honest experiences, and guidance for the questions prospective adoptive parents ask most often.
Inside you'll discover:
45 practical topics covering the foster care adoption journey
Anonymous real-life stories from adoptive families
Guidance for training, home studies, matching, and legal processes
Practical parenting insights for children with trauma histories and complex needs
Tools and resources to help you move forward with confidence
Continue Your Journey
This book pairs perfectly with the Foster Care Adoption Simplified Overview Course, providing a clear introduction to the foster care adoption process before diving deeper into the practical stories and guidance found throughout the book.
Ready or Not? is a graphic novel that helps teens understand foster care, identity, belonging, and the journey toward permanency. Through the story of Olena, a high school student preparing to age out of foster care, readers experience the uncertainty, guarded conversations, and unanswered questions many youth carry while exploring what family, belonging, and permanency could mean for their future.
Designed for middle and high school English language arts and social-emotional learning classrooms, as well as families, caregivers, and adoption allies, this graphic novel creates meaningful conversations about foster care adoption, belonging, and resilience.
Perfect for:
Middle and high school English language arts classrooms
Social-emotional learning and advisory programs
School and public libraries
Families, caregivers, and adoption allies
Book clubs and community discussions
Continue the Conversation
This graphic novel is the companion book for the Teen Edition of the Foster Care Adoption Awareness Reading Program, providing ready-to-use lessons and activities that extend learning beyond the final page.
It's Okay to Talk About Adoption is a collection of real-world examples that honors the many ways forever families are formed. Featuring 18 contributors from across the adoption community, it showcases practical approaches that schools and universities, workplaces, faith communities, media organizations, and individuals can adapt to better support adoptive families and normalize adoption conversations.
Each contributor shares a unique perspective and practical examples from their own community, offering ideas that readers can adapt in their schools, organizations, workplaces, faith communities, media outlets, and everyday lives. Whether your connection to adoption is personal or professional, this book equips you to help make adoption okay to talk about.
Inside you'll discover:
Stories and perspectives from 18 voices across the adoption community
Practical examples that organizations and individuals can adapt
Ideas for supporting adoptive families in everyday life
Conversation starters that encourage greater awareness and belonging
Inspiration to help create adoption-friendly schools, workplaces, faith communities, media, and neighborhoods
Continue the Movement
This book is the companion book to the It's Okay to Talk About Adoption Pledge, inviting individuals and organizations to turn ideas into action and help normalize adoption conversations in their own communities.
*Click here for the option to purchase these books in other formats (Kindle and Audible).
MORE WAYS TO SUPPORT
Courses, gifts, and resources that help fuel the mission.
18" Gold Stainless Steel Necklace
Created in partnership with JBloom and featured in It’s Okay to Talk About Adoption, this necklace is a quiet but powerful conversation starter—a triangle with a heart that represents the adoptee, birth family, and adoptive family. It’s a meaningful piece that reminds us that adoption is a story worth telling and honoring.
Crafted from durable, hypoallergenic stainless steel with a luxurious gold finish.
Features a meaningful adoption symbol pendant that celebrates the beauty of family.
18" chain designed for a comfortable, elegant fit, perfect for everyday wear or special occasions.
Tarnish-resistant and designed to last, maintaining its shine over time.
Includes a gift-ready package.
Foster Care Adoption Simplified Course
How to Write the Book in Your Heart Course