Life Book

Life Book: A pictorial and written representation of the life of a child, which is designed to help the child better understand make sense of its unique background and history. Although there is no required content for a life book, some information that it might include would be information about birthparents, other members of the extended birth family, birthplace and date. The life book might be put together by a social worker, foster and/or adoptive parents or even the birthparents or members of the birthparents' extended family.

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The definition of this term has been taken from the "Adoption Glossary," which contains definitions of a wide variety of words that relate to adoption and infertility. The entire Adoption Glossary is located at http://glossary.adoption.com.

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