Adoption Is a Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know.
A child is coming - whether you approve or not it's time to get with the program! If someone you care about - a family member, co-worker, or close friend - has recently announced that their family will be growing through adoption, you may have questions. After all, unless you have personally ex...
| Основен автор: | Johnston, Patricia Irwin. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2012.
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Adoption Is a Family Affair! : What Relatives and Friends Must Know. |
Съдържание:
- Adoption Is a Family Affair!: What Relatives and Friends Must Know; About the Author; Acknowledgments; The Announcement; Turning Loss into Gain; Then Why Am I Hesitating?; Being Out of Control of "Making It Better"; What to Say and What Not; So You've Already Blown It; Your Personal, Private Fears; Isn't Adoption Really Just Long-Term Temporary Care?; Bonding; But They'll Be So Different from Us!; What about Race?; Can Older or Disabled Children "Fit"?; Open Adoption? We Don't Want to Share!; Will I Be the "Real Grandparent"?; What If It Doesn't Work?
- How Adoption Works: The Facts vs. the Myths"Just Relax: After Adopting, You'll Get Pregnant"; How People Adopt; Statistics; The Kids; The Cost; Changing Practice
- Open Adoption vs. Confidential Adoption; The Homestudy/Family Preparation; Getting Ready; The Wait; International; Special Needs Placements; Domestic Infant Placement; Respecting Privacy Boundaries; Pregnant by Adoption; Health Care for Expectant Adopters; The Sympathetic Pregnancy; Nesting; They're Back?; Practical Preparation
- Expecting by Adoption; Home at Last!; Naming as Claiming; Arrival Issues; Circling the Wagons.
- The Baby BluesParenting in Adoption; Age at Arrival Issues; Infancy; Toddlerhood; Pre-School and Elementary School-Aged Kids; Teens; The Post-Institutionalized Child; Adoption Issues through a Lifetime; In Infancy and Toddlerhood; At School; In Adolescence; In Adulthood; Expanding the Family Culture; Family Heritage
- Stories, Traditions, and Heirlooms; Understanding and Including Your Grandchild's Birthfamily; Special Issues; When You Were Adopted Yourself; If You Were Adoptive Parents, Too; When Your Kids Are New Parents at "Grandparent Age"; When This Is a Second Marriage.
- Foster GrandchildrenAdoption and the Rest of the World; Recognizing Adoptism
- Your Own and Others'; Adoption in the Media; Adoption Language; Adoption Awareness Month; How You Can Learn More; Books, Newsletters, Magazines; Internet Sites; Support Groups; Conferences; An Addendum: Top Five "Hot Buttons" Not to Push! (Or Open Mouth, Extract Foot); 5. "What about the money?" (Didn't your mother teach you it was bad manners to talk about money, politics and religion?); 4. "Adoption connections aren't real connections anyway!" (Do you really want to say "You can do better than this?").
- 3. "Adopted people are 'flawed.'" (The bad seed myth or racism)2. "Didn't you know that ..." (Ignorance isn't bliss in personal relationships); 1. "Now you'll get pregnant! They always do."; Index.