In the Absence of Love : Outskirts Press : 9781478765738 : 1478765739 : 13 Jan 2016 : In the Absence of Love, you will learn what happens behind the closed doors of adoption that no one wants to talk about. The word Adoption should create feelings of hope, excitement and life changing bliss not sheer terror and heart wrenching anxiety that it many times brings. The feelings come from a mistrust of a system that was originally designed to help children. And this mistrust may not be displaced and is very legitimate. This is a brutally honest and candor story of this family's experience within this broken system in hopes to bring awareness and hopefully move those who read it to change. So if you are interested turning over rocks and a telling it like it is approach you may want to be prepared, so you may want to sit down and strap in, it's going to be a wild ride. The adoption of Jana Mari is a surprisingly blunt and honest accounting of their day in and day out family's experience worki