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Child Adoption

A Guidebook for Adoptive Parents and Their Advisors
  • ISBN-13: 9781853024153
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By R.A.C. Hoksbergen
  • Price: AUD $67.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/03/1997
  • Format: Paperback (233.00mm X 158.00mm) 118 pages Weight: 206g
  • Categories: Teenagers: advice for parents [VFXC1]
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This guide is aimed at both adoptive parents and professionals. It covers both the practical and emotional issues, and practical problems, which affect child and parents in adoption, such as preparation of the family and the child, adopting from other races or cultures, helping the child adjust, and discussing the adoptive status with the child. The text aims to help everyone involved in the adoption process make educated and fully thought-out decisions.
What do adoptive parents have to take into consideration?; why do people adopt a child?; adoptive parents need intensive preparation; the arrival of the child changes the family; the adoptive child at school; some years later; psychic homelessness and adoption; transracial adoption and discrimination; the adoptive status should be discussable for the parents as well as for the children. Appendix: adoption centre brochure.
An informative, comprehensive guide to the possible challenges of adoption.
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