Answering Adoption Questions
Features
- Star of the Week
- Closet Assumptions (Part One)
- The Things People Say
- Secrecy vs. Privacy in Adoption
- Home Study
- Response to Julie (Speak Out Article 4/1/03)
- Identifying, Understanding and Helping Your Child With Adoption Issues During Middle-Childhood - Par
- Real Choices
- Explaining Adoption to Your Children, Family, and Friends
- Being Adopted
- Adoption... And After
- The Adopted Child
- Questions Come With the Territory
- Gracious Answers to Awkward Questions About Our Adopted Kids
- Authentic Beginnings, Real Bonds
- It Could Have Been Me
- Speaking Positively Using Respectful Adoption Language
- The Guy on the Street and New-Tech Babies
- On Using Positive Adoption Language
- Adopted Children
- Scabies in the Child Care Setting
- What Children Understand About Adoption At Different Ages
- Adoption
Adoption... And After
Giving adopted children the strength to defend themselves.... [more]
The Adopted Child
Adoption experts recommend that children learn of their adoption from the adoptive parents.... [more]
Questions Come With the Territory
Adoption is part of the family history for those families who have adopted. Discussion on how to answer adoption questions others outside the family may have.... [more]
Gracious Answers to Awkward Questions About Our Adopted Kids
Advice for adoptive parents in answering awkward questions posed by well-intentioned individuals about your adopted children; tips on how to help your child.... [more]
Authentic Beginnings, Real Bonds
Discusses the need for adoptive parents to share their feelings and knowledge about adoption with their children.... [more]
It Could Have Been Me
A short story that a woman tells about the similarities between her and her adopted son's birthmother.... [more]
Speaking Positively Using Respectful Adoption Language
A description of appropriate and correct language to use when referring to adoption.... [more]
The Guy on the Street and New-Tech Babies
How to tell people about a decision to adopt and how to talk to the child and parents adopting.... [more]
On Using Positive Adoption Language
Sensitivity when using adoption language.... [more]
Adopted Children
Most parents find responding to young children's questions about where they came from a bit tricky. It would be less than helpful for a child to learn of his or her adoptive status from other children.... [more]
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