Bibliograph

The everything parent's guide to raising your adopted child, a complete handbook to welcoming your adopted child into your heart and home, Corrie Lynne Player with Brette McWhorter Sember and Mary C. Owen

Type

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The everything parent's guide to raising your adopted child, a complete handbook to welcoming your adopted child into your heart and home, Corrie Lynne Player with Brette McWhorter Sember and Mary C. Owen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The everything parent's guide to raising your adopted child

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

317883411

Responsibility statement

Corrie Lynne Player with Brette McWhorter Sember and Mary C. Owen

Series statement

Everything parent's guide seriesAn everything series book

Sub title

a complete handbook to welcoming your adopted child into your heart and home

Summary

Offers advice on the decisions that need to be made during and after an adoption, covering topics such as the challenges of adopting children in different age groups and ways to integrate an adopted child into an existing family

Table Of Contents

Is adoption right for you? -- Growing areas of adoption -- Preparing for adoption -- Open versus closed adoptions -- Adoption outside your ethnic group -- International adoptions -- Adopting through the foster care system -- Adoption of infants and toddlers -- Adoption of preschool children -- Adoption of elementary school-aged children -- Adoption of tweens and teens -- Adoption of special needs children -- dynamics of biological and adoptive relationships -- Emotional pitfalls for adopted children -- Answering the hard questions -- Creating and strenghtening family bonds -- Unique discipline issues for adopted children -- Searching for your adopted child's birth family -- Helping adopted children become adults

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Parent's guide to raising your adopted childRaising your adopted child

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