The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Your Adopted Child: A Complete Handbook To Welcoming Your Adopted Child Into Your Heart And Home

The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Your Adopted Child: A Complete Handbook To Welcoming Your Adopted Child Into Your Heart And Home

by Brette Mcwhorter Sember (Contributor), Corrie Lynn Player (Author), Mary C. Owen (Contributor)

Synopsis

"The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising the Adopted Child" offers all the essential information any potential and new adoptive parent might need.This essential guidebook is packed with reassuring advice on how to handle the most common issues facing adoptive parents, including: questions to ask before adopting; bonding techniques for each age group - from newborn to teenager; adopting children with physiological or psychological special needs; adopting outside your ethnic group; fielding difficult questions about an adopted child's birth parents; 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 be bonded with their child for a lifetime.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 17 Sep 2008

ISBN 10: 1598696068
ISBN 13: 9781598696066

Author Bio
Corrie Lynn Player, M.Ed. (Cedar City, UT,) is the author of several parenting books, and she created The Point System, a parenting program that teaches personal responsibility, respect and self-esteem. David Brodzinsky, Ph.D. is a founding member and Senior Fellow for the Adoption Institute. Michael Devlin is an attorney living in Milford, CT