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Adoptive Families' 10 Most Popular Articles of 2008
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1. Talking to Kids about Adoption Techniques to help your children achieve a level of comfort and confidence in their adoption.
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2. Cost of Adoption Update A comparison of costs for domestic and international adoptions in 2006 and 2007. Don't miss our January issue, with an update for 2008!
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3. Adoption Blogs We Love! If you're looking for a good read online, try one of these intriguing personal adoption stories.
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4. Adoption Announcements When traditional baby announcements don't quite capture the joy of their new arrivals, many adoptive moms and dads get creative!
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5. What's in a Name? When a child comes into your family with his own unique history and culture-and his own name-it can make the debate that much tougher.
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6. "Do I Love Him Yet?" Award-winning author Melissa Fay Greene vividly describes post-adoption depression.
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7. International Adoption -- What You Need to Know Answers to the most common questions about adopting internationally.
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8. Showered with Love An adoption shower is a wonderful way to celebrate your growing family.
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9. Perception & Reality: The Untold Story of Domestic Adoption Despite the tenacity of myths and stereotypes, domestic adoption has redefined itself.
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10. Older Child Adoption AF's guide to older child adoption will help you navigate the journey.
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Open Adoption
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A great book on Open Adoption:
Making Room in Our Hearts:
Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
By - Micky Duxbury
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Although adoption has never ceased to be a topic of wide interest, there is little material that covers the option of open adoption, which calls for regular contact between the adoptive and birth parents and the child. While closed adoption often prompts anguish and confusion over the adoptee's identity, open adoption allows the child access to his/her birth parents. Making Room in Our Hearts shows that children have a right to know and claim both their biological and adoptive families, rather than having to choose between the two or have no choice in the matter at all.
Making Room in Our Hearts covers the basic issues of open adoption while also including real-life, relatable stories of those with experience making and living through these challenging decisions. Duxbury addresses common fears and concerns, gives attention to siblings and other extended family, and discusses how adoption has changed and how it will continue to change in the future. Based on the author's interviews with over one hundred adoption professionals/ experts, birth and adoptive parents, extended family, and adopted children, the book provides profiles of families from a variety of backgrounds and situations and includes a host of viewpoints of those with specific knowledge. By showing how open adoption works for others, those who are currently considering it can see how it may work for them.
This cutting edge book will help the readers more fully understand the benefits, concerns, and overall process of a child-centered open adoption. Duxbury has conducted extensive research on the topic, making this an effective resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals working with adoptive and birth parents."Making Room In Our Hearts is an authentic, inside account of the open adoption experience. It offers an opportunity to listen in as the participants of adoption describe the delights and challenges of their journeys. Openness never shines brighter than when it is expressed in the actual words of those who live it day in and day out."James Gritter, author of The Spirit of Open Adoption, and The Lifegivers:Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Adoption.
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Adoptive Families' 10 Most Popular Articles of 2008
Click on the title of the article to read it!
1. Talking to Kids about Adoption Techniques to help your children achieve a level of comfort and confidence in their adoption.
.
2. Cost of Adoption Update A comparison of costs for domestic and international adoptions in 2006 and 2007. Don't miss our January issue, with an update for 2008!
.
3. Adoption Blogs We Love! If you're looking for a good read online, try one of these intriguing personal adoption stories.
.
4. Adoption Announcements When traditional baby announcements don't quite capture the joy of their new arrivals, many adoptive moms and dads get creative!
.
5. What's in a Name? When a child comes into your family with his own unique history and culture-and his own name-it can make the debate that much tougher.
.
6. "Do I Love Him Yet?" Award-winning author Melissa Fay Greene vividly describes post-adoption depression.
.
7. International Adoption -- What You Need to Know Answers to the most common questions about adopting internationally.
.
8. Showered with Love An adoption shower is a wonderful way to celebrate your growing family.
.
9. Perception & Reality: The Untold Story of Domestic Adoption Despite the tenacity of myths and stereotypes, domestic adoption has redefined itself.
.
10. Older Child Adoption AF's guide to older child adoption will help you navigate the journey.
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Open Adoption
.
A great book on Open Adoption:
Making Room in Our Hearts:
Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
By - Micky Duxbury
.
Although adoption has never ceased to be a topic of wide interest, there is little material that covers the option of open adoption, which calls for regular contact between the adoptive and birth parents and the child. While closed adoption often prompts anguish and confusion over the adoptee's identity, open adoption allows the child access to his/her birth parents. Making Room in Our Hearts shows that children have a right to know and claim both their biological and adoptive families, rather than having to choose between the two or have no choice in the matter at all.
Making Room in Our Hearts covers the basic issues of open adoption while also including real-life, relatable stories of those with experience making and living through these challenging decisions. Duxbury addresses common fears and concerns, gives attention to siblings and other extended family, and discusses how adoption has changed and how it will continue to change in the future. Based on the author's interviews with over one hundred adoption professionals/ experts, birth and adoptive parents, extended family, and adopted children, the book provides profiles of families from a variety of backgrounds and situations and includes a host of viewpoints of those with specific knowledge. By showing how open adoption works for others, those who are currently considering it can see how it may work for them.
This cutting edge book will help the readers more fully understand the benefits, concerns, and overall process of a child-centered open adoption. Duxbury has conducted extensive research on the topic, making this an effective resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals working with adoptive and birth parents."Making Room In Our Hearts is an authentic, inside account of the open adoption experience. It offers an opportunity to listen in as the participants of adoption describe the delights and challenges of their journeys. Openness never shines brighter than when it is expressed in the actual words of those who live it day in and day out."James Gritter, author of The Spirit of Open Adoption, and The Lifegivers:Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Adoption.
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