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Thinking About Adoption?
Speak with a Pregnancy Services Counselor at
1-800-321-5683.
Request information about adopting a child
here. >
You can also call us at
212-400-8150
for more information.
The Adoption Resource Library contains recomended books and articles by adoption professionals, birth parents, adoptive parents and adopted children, who share their unique insights.
Adoption Without Fear
James L. Gritter James Gritter, a social worker who was a pioneer in the transition from closed to open adoptions, gathers the stories of seventeen couples who tell of their experience with open adoption, ranging from occasional contact, to sharing the birth experience, and their lives beyond. While each relationship has its unique qualities there are also many common threads in these emotion-filled and often complex family stories. Published 20 years ago, this book still has relevance for families today.
Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories
Mary Martin Mason Based on in-depth interviews, this book profiles a diverse group of men "who have fathered a child whom they are not parenting" including, but not only, through adoption. Common issues emerge in their often painful stories: grief, regret and shame, damage to self-esteem and subsequent relationships, and lasting feelings for the child. Besides the emotional cost to the birthfather, Mason also examines the impact of shutting out birthfathers on adoptive parents and children.
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Contact InformationGetting to Spence-Chapin by:
By Subway
Local 6 train stops at 96th Street
Express 4/5 train stops at 86th Street
By Bus
Uptown M15 (local or limited) via First Avenue. Get off at 90th (local) or 96th (limited) and First Avenue.
Downtown M15 (local or limited) via Second Avenue. Get off at 90th (local) or 96th (limited) and Second Avenue. Crosstown M86 via 86th Street. Going east get off at 92nd Street and First Avenue (last stop). Crosstown M96 via 96th Street. Going east, get off at 96th Street and First Avenue.
From Riverdale
Southbound BxM1 stops at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue. Transfer available to the crosstown local M86.
Northbound BxM1 stops at 91st Street and 3rd Avenue. Southbound BxM3 stops at 84th Street and Fifth Avenue. Transfer available to the crosstown local M86 bus. Northbound - BxM3 bus stops at 84th St. and Madison Ave. Transfer available to the crosstown local M86 bus at 86th Street and Madison Avenue. From Co-Op City, Throgs Neck, Pelham Bay, Parkchester, City Island and Morris Park Southbound BxM6, BxM 7/ 7A/ 7B, BxM9 and BxM10 stop at 84th Street and Fifth Avenue. Transfer available to the crosstown local M86 bus. Northbound BxM6, BxM 7 /7A/ 7B, BxM9 and BxM10 pick up at 86th Street and Third Avenue.
From Henry Hudson Parkway and West Side Highway
Exit at 96th Street. Drive east on 96th Street through Central Park to Second Avenue. Turn right on Second Avenue and go four blocks. Turn left on 92nd Street and go one and a half blocks. From Harlem River DriveExit at 96th Street. Drive west on 96th Street to Second Avenue. Turn left on Second Avenue for four blocks. Turn left onto 92nd Street and go one and a half blocks. Spence-Chapin between First and York avenues, on your right at 410 E. 92nd Street. ParkingIf you drive, please allow extra time to find parking space before your appointment. Street parking is very limited and parking restrictions are enforced. Restrictions vary from one part of a block to another and from one side of the street to another. Be sure to read the street signs before parking on any street in Manhattan.
Numerous private parking facilities can be found within close proximity to Spence-Chapin; prices vary.
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