Considering Adoption

Mary Motley Kalergis

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Atelerix Press
18 September 2025

Adoption & fostering; Family & relationships; Adoption; Advice on parenting

Considering Adoption

By Mary Motley Kalergis

Considering Adoption is a deeply human portrait of one of life's most complex and hopeful decisions. Photographer and oral historian Mary Motley Kalergis spent years listening to adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees as they reflected on what it means to create a family through adoption. Her black-and-white documentary photographs and first-person narratives capture the emotional and practical realities of the adoption journey-from the first, tentative conversations about whether to adopt, through waiting and matching, to the joy and challenges of welcoming a child.

The stories reveal the courage and vulnerability of everyone touched by adoption: expectant parents considering placement, individuals navigating domestic or international adoption, and families formed through foster care. Kalergis offers an honest, compassionate look at the hopes, fears, and transformations that define this life-changing choice.

Originally published to acclaim and now reissued in a beautifully crafted new edition, Considering Adoption is an inspiring resource for prospective adoptive parents, birth parents, social workers, counselors, and anyone drawn to the personal stories behind adoption.

By: Mary Motley Kalergis
Imprint: Atelerix Press
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 685g
ISBN: 9798999613509
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 18 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Motley Kalergis is an author, photographer and interviewer, whose work bears witness to the bonds that connect individuals, families, and communities.Her published books include Foxhunters Speak (Derrydale Press), Considering Adoption (Atelerix Press), Love In Black & White (Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing), Charlottesville Portrait (Howell Press), Seen and Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives (Stewart Tabori, & Chang), With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage (The Chrysler Museum of Art), Home of the Brave (E.P. Dutton), Mother: A Collective Portrait (E.P. Dutton), and Giving Birth (Harper & Row.)Her photographs are featured in numerous anthologies and collections including Aperture's Mothers and Daughters, Pantheon's Generations, Stemmle's In Their Mother's Eyes, National Geographic's Star Spangled Banner, Fawcett's In Celebration Of Babies, and Andrews McMeel's ""Waiting for Baby, Reflections and The Enduring Circle of Love.Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; The Burden Gallery and the International Center of Photography in NYC; The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia; the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida; The San Antonio Museum of Art;, The Field Museum of Chicago; the Museum Fur Photographie in Stuttgart, Germany and the Diaframa Kodak Galleria in Milan, Italy.Photographs by Mary have also appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, People, Time, Newsweek, Glamour, Ladies' Home Journal, Seventeen Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Marie Claire (France), The Guardian (London), and Camera Manuchi (Japan). Mary taught at The International Center of Photography in New York and has served as ""special stills"" photographer on movie sets, including Long Walk Home, and Cousin Bette.She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is currently working on her tenth book.

Reviews for Considering Adoption

""While Kalergis deals frankly with the sometimes-herculean challenges of building a family, this album is suffused with light, hope and the transformative power of hard-won parenthood."" -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon.