The Family Nobody Wanted
A Biography, Memoir, Parenting book. One of my all-time favorites, this book alternates between the stories of adopting and fostering children...
Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.
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- Pages: 274 pages
- ISBN: 9781555535032 / 1555535038
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It was fun and interesting to read about how a family copes with adding more children to their family through adoption, especially since it was in the 40s and 50s that they were adopting. All the children but the first were multiracial or other wise "not wanted" The little stories were entertaining. I think I would have given it four... I first read this back in 2nd or 3rd grade - certainly before 1963. And I recently re-read it after I saw a clip of Carl and Helen Doss on an old Groucho Marx show. It simply a very well-written, smooth book, the story of a couple who wanted kids but could not physically bear them. They ended up adopting unwanted kids - 12 of them.The... One of my all-time favorites, this book alternates between the stories of adopting and fostering children and the stories of raising them. Helen Doss and her preacher husband can't conceive, but they are fortunate to adopt a healthy little boy. When they try to expand their family, they hit a wall and are told that there simply are...
