| Chapters 1. Preparing to write a lifebook, Reasons to make a lifebook |
| 2. Raising adopted children, Journaling a lifebook |
| 3. Choosing a Voice |
| 4. Family or Child-centered lifebooks, Journaling tips, Questions adopted kids ask |
| 5. Let’s get started: Gather, Sort, and Organize |
| 6. Descriptive Journaling: Writing Lesson #1 |
| 7. Introduction page – the first page of the lifebook |
| 8. Birth page |
| 9. Name page |
| 10. Country of Birth |
| 11. Province or local area of birth |
| 12. Customs and Traditions |
| 13. Fun Family Customs |
| 14. One-child policy (China) |
| 15. General Reasons for separation/relinquishment (Korea) |
| 16. Birthparents |
| 17. General Tips for writing about birthparents and abandonment |
| 18. Abandonment and finding ads (China) |
| 19. Relinquishment (Korea) |
| 20. Helping children understand separation from birth families |
| 21. Sensitive and Private information |
| 22. Orphanage/ Foster Home page |
| 23. Optional Writing Styles –Writing Lesson #2 |
| 24. Writing from the Heart-Writing Lesson #3 |
| 25. Paperwork for adoption |
| 26. Waiting |
| 27. Matching |
| 28. Referral |
| 29. Leaving to meet your child |
| 30. Korean Escorts |
| 31. Adoption Day page |
| 32. Promise page |
| 33. Coming home |
| 34. Forever Family |
| 35. Toddler versions |
| 36. Lifebooks for Teens |
| 37. Ethnicity |
| 38. Incorporating Religion into lifebooks |
| 39. Visual Tips |
| 40. Waiting Family Tips |
| 41. Photo composition |
| 42. Things to purchase while traveling |
| 43. Adoption Day questions (English) |
| 44. Adoption Day questions translated (Chinese) |
| 45. Adoption Day questions translated (Korean) |
| 46. Writing Lifebooks for Special Needs children |
| 47. Writing about Tough Stuff and considerations for older special needs children |
| 48. Abandonment of an older child |
| 49. Disruption or Dissolution of an adoption and lifebooks |
| 50. About the Authors |
