Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted ChildHolly van Gulden and Lisa Bartels-Rabb offer insight into how adopted children at each age commonly think and feel about being adopted. They also explain how and why adopted children grieve for their birth parents and suggest ways adoptive parents can help them come to a healthy resolution of this grief. For prospective parents, the authors discuss ways to prepare themselves and the child they are about to adopt for the new family union. Throughout, the special concerns. |
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Parenting Is ParentingOr Is It? | 3 |
Bonding The Love Question | 13 |
Grief and Loss | 30 |
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