Answering Adoption Questions
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- 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
Star of the Week
Discusses the added pressures at school for parents and children involved with adoption; gives pointers for positive outcomes.... [more]
Closet Assumptions (Part One)
A parenting experience that acts as an allegory to the adoption world.... [more]
The Things People Say
How to respond to remarks that can be harmful in a healthy, unhurtful manner, educating as well.... [more]
Secrecy vs. Privacy in Adoption
One mother's feelings about discussing adoption with others.... [more]
Home Study
Assits the adoption process through current comprehensive information and referral services.... [more]
Response to Julie (Speak Out Article 4/1/03)
Author responds to a letter, and shares experience of starting own search, gives advice.... [more]
Identifying, Understanding and Helping Your Child With Adoption Issues During Middle-Childhood - Par
The child's growing cognitive abilities and how the attainment of a higher level of thinking influences the child's sense of himself and his adoptive status.... [more]
Real Choices
Adoption and abortion are not two sides of the same coin. It's not a real dichotomy.... [more]
Explaining Adoption to Your Children, Family, and Friends
Siblings, extended family members, neighbors, teachers and doctors who are indirectly touched by adoption.... [more]
Being Adopted
Being adopted is interesting. People ask adoptees where their real parents are and wonder why adoptees don't look like their siblings. Adoptees, especially when younger, need the tools to deal with these inevitable questions.... [more]
