Adoptive Parenting
Features
First Mother's Day
Adoptive mother tells of adopting her son and of her love for him.... [more]
10 Tips After Your Older Child is Home
The adjustment period with one's child may last a month, six months, or a couple of years. Many things relating to becoming a new family just take time. An adopted child arrived with years of experiences, good and bad, before entering the new family's life. It takes time to blend and mesh personalities, interests, and expectations.... [more]
Not Just Like Me
Adoption across a cultural difference requires a new way of defining family and community, in order to provide adult role models for our children who are LIKE THEM, in whatever way we are not.... [more]
I Am A Real Mother
An adoptive mom's feelings via poetry about her place as a mother.... [more]
Getting Real
For several years I've had the interesting experience of participating in Internet newsgroups and commercial on-line usegroups discussing adoption. The culture on the Net is different from t... [more]
Entitlement vs. Ownership
Being entitled to parent; what this means in terms of parenting style and discipline.... [more]
Planning Your Baby's Nursery
Planning a nursery takes a little time and effort; things to consider when doing the planning.... [more]
Pressing Close and Pushing Away: The Dance of Ambivalence in Adoption Relationships
A mother tells the story about the rejection she feared from her adopted children and her eventual understanding.... [more]
Promoting Attachment through the Senses
Attachment: connection with others and the environment through the senses.... [more]
Supporting Loving Families: After the Adoption
Issues for families that adopt from the child welfare system. Being supporting and creating loving, caring, permanent families.... [more]
Telling Your Child's Adoption Story
The author discusses both the problems and benefits of being open about your child's adoption, particularly with their school; includes stories of parents and how they have dealt with this dilemma.... [more]
The Announcement
The beginning of the adoption process is telling those one loves about the decision to adopt. It is not always easy, as the expected results are not guaranteed.... [more]
Post-adoption
- Adoption Support & Preservation
- After Adoption: The Need for Services
- And Then There Were Four
- Helping Your Older Child Adjust
- New Federal Funds Available for Post-Adoption Services
- Post Adoption Depression:
- Rituals and Ceremonies for Adoptive Families - Part 3
Siblings
- Adopted Sibs Reacting Differently
- Bio, Adopted, and Other Siblings
- Creating a Family by Birth and Adoption
- Losing a Sibling: Helping Your Child Cope with Adoption Reversal
Talking to Kids About Adoption
- Adoption is Sharing for More Than One Family
- Chocolate Talks
- The Adopted Child
- The Adoption Manual
- Explaining Adoption to Your Child
- Talking to Children about Sex and Adoption
- Talking to your Child about Adoption
- Proactive Parenting
- Five Simple Guidelines to Help Your Children Understand Their Friends in Adoptive Families
- Adoption: to Tell or Not to Tell
- Questions Without Answers
- Talking with Children About Adoption
- more
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