The Secrets of Successful Adoptive Parenting

Sharing the secrets that will enable you to face the challenges of adoptive parenting with confidence, Sophie Ashton offers tips and strategies which have worked for her family.

Author: Sophie Ashton

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 1784503401

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 280

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Are you in the process of adopting and feeling out of your depth? Do you already have an adopted child and are feeling overwhelmed? Sharing the secrets that will enable you to face the challenges of adoptive parenting with confidence, Sophie Ashton offers tips and strategies which have worked for her family. She discusses preparing for the journey ahead, parenting with empathy, facilitating your child's attachment, helping your child feel listened to, and providing structure and consistency in order to successfully integrate your child into your family and go on to have a stable happy family life. An honest and reassuring account of what it can really be like to be an adoptive parent, this practical hands-on guide will help you prepare for the highs and lows of being a parent and give your child and your family the best chance to flourish.

20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed

In her groundbreaking first book, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge gave voice to the very real concerns of adopted children, whose unique perspectives offered unprecedented insight.

Author: Sherrie Eldridge

Publisher: Delta

ISBN: 0440338980

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 320

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Do I have what it takes to be a successful adoptive parent? Does my child consider me a successful parent? Will I ever hear my rebellious teen say, “I love you”? What tools do I need to succeed? In her groundbreaking first book, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge gave voice to the very real concerns of adopted children, whose unique perspectives offered unprecedented insight. In this all-new companion volume, Eldridge goes beyond those insights and shifts her focus to parents, offering them much-needed encouragement and hope. Speaking from her own experience as an adoptee and an expert in the field of adoption, Eldridge shares proven strategies and the moving narratives of nearly one hundred adoptive families, helping parents gain a deeper understanding of what is normal, both for their children and themselves. By first strengthening yourself as a parent, you’ll be able to truly listen to your child, and to connect with him on every level, by opening the channels of communication and keeping them open forever. Then you and your child can grow closer through the practical exercises at the end of every chapter. Discover how to • be confident that your role in your child’s life is vital and irreplaceable • pass on the legacy of healthy self-care by assessing and regulating your stress • communicate unconditional love to your child • talk candidly with your child about her adoption and her birth family • teach your family how to respond positively to insensitive remarks about adoption • connect with other adoptive families–and build a support network • plus learn to become a “warrior” parent…settle the “real parent” question…cope with emotional triggers–what to do when you “lose it” . . . celebrate the miracle of your family…and much more

Secrets to Your Successful Domestic Adoption

A social worker, birthmom and adoption advocate shares her proven strategies and unique insights for finding the perfect adoption match, in a must-have guide for a faster, successful open domestic adoption, with reduced red tape and wait ...

Author: Jennifer Joyce Pedley

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

ISBN: 0757314686

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 240

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A social worker, birthmom and adoption advocate shares her proven strategies and unique insights for finding the perfect adoption match, in a must-have guide for a faster, successful open domestic adoption, with reduced red tape and wait times, compared to a traditional agency. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Promoting Successful Adoptions

Further, adopted adults may feel renewed sorrow and confusion at an inability to
answer basic questions for their children. At midlife, and particularly at the time of
the adoptive parents' deaths, adoption looms large. The loss of adoptive ...

Author: Susan Livingston Smith

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 0761906576

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 274

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This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

Successful Adoption

One researcher , Margaret Kornitzer , said that the success of adoption should be
judged by whether or not a family relationship ... But the secret question that
many adoptive parents have is , " Would I feel a deeper bond with a child by birth
?

Author: Jacqueline Hornor Plumez

Publisher: Harmony

ISBN:

Category: Social Science

Page: 218

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A realistic, comprehensive guide to adoption offers extensive information on methods of finding and adopting a child and discusses the raising of an adopted child

How to Create a Successful Adoption Portfolio

Do you really understand what prospective birth parents care about? This is a step-by-step guide to creating a portfolio which will reflect your personality, make a strong positive impact and encourage the right birth family to choose you.

Author: Madeleine Melcher

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 0857007645

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 168

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How do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child? Do you know which pictures to include and which to leave out? Do you really understand what prospective birth parents care about? This is a step-by-step guide to creating a portfolio which will reflect your personality, make a strong positive impact and encourage the right birth family to choose you. Madeleine Melcher shares the secrets she has discovered over years of creating successful portfolios, profiles and prospective birth parent letters. She combines simple and effective design ideas and tips for writing and layout with a deep understanding of how portfolios work. Importantly, this book also draws extensively on the experiences of birth mothers and the professionals who support them to examine what they are really looking for, featuring questions which prospective birth mothers will want to see answered in your portfolio. From text to design, this guide will give you the confidence to create a portfolio that sets you apart. It is essential reading for prospective adoptive parents, as well as adoption attorneys and adoption agencies advising those hoping to adopt.

Children

The secrets of success are in the heart as well as the mind. Robert H. MacRae in
bis presidential ... What are the identifiable characteristics of children and
adoptive parents who have achieved a successful adoption ? What are the
presenting ...

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Adoption

An adoption attorney demystifies the legal system in a practical handbook for adoptive parents, covering domestic and international adoptions, as well as public, private, independent, and out-of-state adoptions, surrogacy, and other ...

Author: Randall Hicks

Publisher: Perigee Trade

ISBN: 9780399533686

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 385

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An adoption attorney demystifies the legal system in a practical handbook for adoptive parents, covering domestic and international adoptions, as well as public, private, independent, and out-of-state adoptions, surrogacy, and other alternatives, and includes a complete list of every member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and a listing of more than 1,200 private adoption agencies. Original.

Law Inequality

The secrets surrounding the adoption may have an impact on the way the child is
brought up as the adoptive parents struggle with their own ... for the child ' s
health , and excessive concern about the child ' s academic and social success .

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Category: Equality

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How to Adopt a Child by Ernest and Frances Cady

Compared to the cost of a new automobile acquired every few years by an
average family likely to adopt , or the total ... obstetrician and pediatrician charges
, the years of joy brought into a family by a successful adoption abundantly justify
a ... The secret here is , in a phrase " voluntary contributions , ” the bigger the
better .

Author: Ernest Cady

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Adoption

Page: 189

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ABA Child Law Practice

9 % certain that the case will settle with relinquishment of parental rights and
adoption to the family member , says ... This causes some parents to bow out ,
while it helps other parents focus on Secrets to success What is Bexar County ' s
 ...

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Category: Children

Page:

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What Good Parents Have in Common

Thirteen Secrets for Success Janis Long Harris. take me in and show ... Mary Kay
Ash wouldn ' t have had much of a family life at all if it hadn ' t been for some of
her neighbors , who became her adopted parents and siblings . Ash ' s mother ...

Author: Janis Long Harris

Publisher: Zondervan

ISBN: 9780310481911

Category: Child rearing.

Page: 223

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Based on interviews with scores of adult children who appreciate their parents, this book reveals the 13 characteristics shared by these parents. Through stories and reflections, Long-Harris paints a sometimes surprising picture of how good parents go about raising happy, productive children--and offers practical help to moms and dads today.

Parenting Children in Unstable Times

Adopted Children Is keeping secrets from children a form of child abuse? ... While
not always totally successful, open adoption is recognized as a healthy, honest
process that benefits the child, the birth parents, and the adoptive parents.

Author: Ruth P. Arent

Publisher: Fulcrum Pub

ISBN:

Category: Cooking

Page: 336

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Identifies seventy-two potentially dangerous or unstable situations that children could encounter and offers advice for parents on resolving or preventing trouble

Childcraft Guide for parents

Author:

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ISBN:

Category: Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries

Page:

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Adopting Older Children

Unfortunately , also in almost every home where older children are adopted ,
parents have days ( or weeks , or months ) when they find they actively dislike the
new child . The most experienced and successful adoptive parent in the world
has ...

Author: Candace Wheeler

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Adoption

Page: 23

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Strangers in Blood

Keeping adoption a secret was more a fashion of the times with his adoptive
mother ' s generation , he believes . “ Secrets are so bad . ” He attributes all his
professional success to his adoptive parents , particularly Amy . “ My mother
instilled ...

Author: Janice Law

Publisher:

ISBN: 9781934645024

Category: Brothers and sisters

Page: 178

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Judge/author/journalist Janice Law profiles celebrities, and ordinary people who share their feelings of estrangement from family.

House of Commons Debates

I am proud of their efforts and their success . ... It applies to adoptions finalized in
the issues of agriculture in our country . ... Adoptive parents have been able to
obtain so few details on this However , as we have known now for some months
and as was adoption tax credit beyond what is ... It is no secret that I believe
recognition for adoption and adoptive parents under Canadian tax laws is long
overdue .

Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Canada

Page:

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House of Commons Debates Official Report

The adoptive parents have standing of our families to carry out our duties here .
thus provided these children with an ... One of the secrets of their success is their
ability extent , that parents can better bring about the full develop to work with the
 ...

Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Canada

Page:

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Fit and Proper

tion only on condition that the adoptive parents agree to tell the child his
relationship to them as early as possible that ... itself in ignorance of its actual
relationship to them , guarded their secret carefully although not always
successfully . Adoptive families willing to sever their community ties and take up
their residence among new people seem to have found the most successful
means of concealment .

Author: Ida R. Parker

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Adoption

Page: 130

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Adoption Reunions

A Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Families Michelle McColm ...
While adoptees are sometimes successful in letting go of “ protecting ” their
adoptive parents from their reunion , many continue to feel that their adoptive
grandparents , because of their ... Unfortunately , this situation only creates more
secrets .

Author: Michelle McColm

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 271

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In this practical book, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion; drawing on extensive interviews and the experience of her own reunion.