A Parent's Guide to Adoption
Author : Robert S. Lasnik
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780806989563
Author : Robert S. Lasnik
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780806989563
Author : Rachel Garlinghouse
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Interracial adoption
ISBN : 9781478310860
Are you prepared to adopt and parent transracially? Transracial adoption can be a daunting and exhilarating journey. At times you feel incredibly isolated and lost. However, with this conversational and practical guide in hand, you will be able to adopt with confidence and parent with education, empathy, and enthusiasm. Whether you are new to adoption, a seasoned adoptive parent, or you are an adoptee, birth parent, or adoption professional, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE will enhance your understanding and appreciation for transracial adoption. The book contains extensive resource lists, discussion/reflection questions for adoptive parents, and advice and research from experts in the adoption field. Recommended by MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: "We had an amazing guest on the MHP show about a year ago who is white and raising black adopted children, Rachel Garlinghouse. I love her book Come Rain or Come Shine: A White Parent's Guide to Adopting and Parenting Black Children." (from Jezebel, Melissa Harris-Perry Answers Your Questions, 4/6/14)
Author : Kathleen Whitten
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1461663075
Adoptive parents often experience the double trial of emotional responses to infertility and to the process of adoption itself, called "excruciating labor with no end in sight," by one adoptive mother. Would-be adoptive parents cycle through grief, anger, fear, anxiety, frustration, and guilt-and back again. All of these emotions cloud decision-making, at exactly the time that adoptive parents are making life-altering, irrevocable decisions: whether to adopt at all, to adopt an older child or an infant, or to parent a child with developmental delays, as well as other pressing questions. New empirical research by Kathleen Whitten, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist and adoptive mother, and other experts in the field contradicts many of the outdated myths presented to parents and written about in widely-used adoption guides. Whitten separates fact from fiction and leads parents by the hand through the many emotional impacts the process involves. Written in a reassuring, conversational tone, the author tells parents when they should listen to their heart-and when practical considerations are too important to ignore. Each chapter features workbook section with constructive exercises and stimulating questions. Adoptive parents do not need yet another book promising a "fast track" to a child or explaining how to collect documents. Instead, they need Labor of the Heart to help them through the difficult emotions and decisions about adoption.
Author : Lois Ruskai Melina
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0062038168
When to tell, What to tell, and How to tell Children who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate and respond to those concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities parents will find answers to such questions as: -- When should I give my child the letter her birthmother wrote? -- How do I share information that might upset my child? -- How can I know when my child is wondering about adoption? -- What should I tell school personnel about my child's history? What about family and friends? -- How can I be sure we talk about adoption enough, but not too much? Whether parents adopted traditionally, as stepparents, or through donor insemination, surrogacy, or in vitro fertilization, Making Sense of Adoption will open the door to a lifetime of growth and understanding for adoptive families.
Author : Corrie Lynn Player
Publisher : Adams Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781598696066
For the estimated 2 million families in the United States waiting to adopt a child, the decision of which avenue to pursue can be overwhelming: domestic or international, older child versus younger, children with special needs?and the list goes on. This title offers all the information any potential or newly adoptive parent might need. This essential guidebook is packed with reassuring advice on how to handle the most common issues: questions to ask before adopting; bonding techniques?from newborn to teenager; adopting children with special needs; navigating international adoptions; helping the adopted child understand and cope with feelings of loss and abandonment; and navigating blended families, single parenting, or same-sex partnerships. With this book by their side, adoptive parents will bond with their child for a lifetime!
Author : Katja Rowell
Publisher :
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 9780615691312
"Grounded in science and made real with the often heartbreaking and inspiring words of parents who have been there, Dr. Rowell helps readers understand and overcome feeding challenges, from simple picky eating to entrenched food obsession, oral motor and developmental delays, "feeding clinic failures," and more" --Cover, p. 4.
Author : Lois Ruskai Melina
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0062038168
When to tell, What to tell, and How to tell Children who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate and respond to those concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities parents will find answers to such questions as: -- When should I give my child the letter her birthmother wrote? -- How do I share information that might upset my child? -- How can I know when my child is wondering about adoption? -- What should I tell school personnel about my child's history? What about family and friends? -- How can I be sure we talk about adoption enough, but not too much? Whether parents adopted traditionally, as stepparents, or through donor insemination, surrogacy, or in vitro fertilization, Making Sense of Adoption will open the door to a lifetime of growth and understanding for adoptive families.
Author : Gregory Keck
Publisher : Tyndale House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 161521447X
Without avoiding the grim statistics, this book reveals the real hope that hurting children can be healed through adoptive and foster parents, social workers, and others who care. Includes information on foreign adoptions.
Author : Kathleen Whitten
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 1590771338
This guide provides adoptive parents advice in getting through the difficult emotions and decisions about adoption, from dealing with the emotional upheaval of dealing with the issue of infertility, to the ups and downs of the adoption process, the bureaucracy of adoption, and more.
Author : Deborah D. Gray
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1849058903
This classic text is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. It explains what attachment is and provides parenting techniques matched to children's emotional needs and stages to enhance children's happiness and emotional health.