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Adoptive Families And Relationships: You are sure to find the article
about adoption terminology helpful. There are many different types of adoptions.
You will learn what a home adoption study is and the difference between
a pre-placement and semi-open adoption. Also included in this category are
articles dealing with the effects of adoption on the biological children
in the family. You will also find some advice on how to sensitively discuss
the adoption decision with adopted children.
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Talking to Children about Adoption
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Nancy Jessop
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I work as a school counselor in a pre-K through first grade elementary school in western Massachusetts. I am also an adoptive mother. I have had many occasions to talk to the children in my school about adoption and to observe what questions, concerns and thoughts come up for these children concerning the subject of adoption. Very young children, toddlers and preschoolers, don't fully comprehend the concept of adoption.
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Adoptive Families of Older Children
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The crisis of the teen years for older adopted children may call into question adoptive parents' faith in the possibility of healing. Are "the wounds...too deep, the patterns too set, the help too late"? For me at least, such questions are spiritual. They undermine my confidence in the "rightness" of the universe or God.
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From So Far to So Close
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Madeleine Greey
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Just a few years ago, Carolyn and Colin Miller of Etobicoke, Ontario became parents at Toronto's international airport. Their two children arrived from Russia carrying nothing in their hands - no luggage, toys or extra clothes. Svetlana was four and her (new) brother Andrew was seven. They spoke not a word of English and were greeted by two eager and anxious adults ready to become their mother and father.
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Creating Ceremonies for Older Adopted Children
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Allison Martin
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An Interview with Cheryl A. Lieberman and Rhea K. Bufferd,
Authors of "Creating Ceremonies : Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges"
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Silent Voices Heard - Impact of Birthermother's Experience
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Donna Portuesi, MSW
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Living an experience is to know it. For the birthmother, however, living the experience and understanding the totality of the experience may take a lifetime journey. The relinquishment of a child for adoption permeates all aspects of a birthmother's life. Only a couple of decades ago, many unwed mothers, no matter how capable, were scorned and labeled "loose", "bad", "unfit", and "undeserving".
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