Support for Adoptive Parents

Adoption:
What adoption issues to expect at different ages (from infancy to adult).

Answers to the Adoptive Child's Questions
What to do when your child starts to ask tough questions. What to say, how soon, and how much? Wonderful answers and insight.

Bent But Not Broken
Building the Resilient Adoptive Family. Parenting the adoptive child can be difficult at times. Methods for success.

Common Issues
Concerns for Adoptive Parents. There are many issues which are common to adoptive families parents can find insight here.

Getting Real
by Patricia Irwin Johnston, MS
...are you the "real parent?" Very informative and insightful work on the adoptive parent's self image.

Grief and Loss Issues for Adopted Children:
By recognizing the loss and grief issues your child may experience you can help your child build a healthy self image.

Mastering Bad Feelings
Raising a difficult child can unleash all kinds of feelings for the adoptive parent this article from Roots and Wings Adoption Magazine helps to put it in perspective.

Positive Adoption Language
What is amom, Adoptive Father, Birth Mother, Birth Father, and what do they really mean? A wonderful guide to understanding the terms of adoption.

Post Adoption Depression Syndrome
The waiting is over, and the paperwork is finalized, and you feel awful? Why? Informative look at post adoption depression.

Proactive Parenting
Is your child angry, depressed, anxious? What are the signs and what you can do!

Promoting Attachment
Patricia Irwin Johnston, MS.  provides a look at the methods for encouraging attachment of your new arrival to your family.

Specific Techniques
A how to guide for increasing family attachment by Deborah N. Silverstein

Talking to your Pre-school Child about Adoption
When to say it, how to say it, and how much to say about adoption to pre-school children.

To Tell or Not to Tell
Advice on what to tell the school about your adoptive child. What should or shouldn't they know about your family.

Things I Wish My Adoptive Parents Knew
A forum for adoptees to voice their suggestions to prospective adoptive parents as well as share their insights on life as an adoptee.