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A ""must have"" book for both adoptive parents and for those professionals who help adoptive families forge new family ties...the author, herself an adoptive parent, addresses a wide variety of very complex topics with a marked sensitivity to the varying needs of children who may have had a wide range of early life experiences.

Adoptive parents --- Toddlers --- Parenting --- Children --- Adopting parents --- Parents --- Care

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This book explores the challenges of adoption and how best to support families coping with these demands. Angie Hart and Barry Luckock draw together adoptive parents' experiences, professional practice and empirical research to provide an integrative account of adoption support services.

Adopted children --- Adoption --- Adoptive parents --- Adopting parents --- Parents --- Adopted infants --- Children, Adopted --- Children --- Services for

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Gary Diamond, an American-trained developmental pediatrician, has along with professional colleagues over the past 15 years counseled and traveled to orphanages around the world in the service of adoptive parents, interested in evaluating the child pre-adoption in his/her native setting, often being in foster care or orphanages in a variety of countries in Eastern Europe and Central America. The book is a collection of 25 true accounts of adoption, post adoption and adolescent and adult experiences with adoption, and presents a unique chronicle of the life cycle of the adoptive family and the

Adoption. --- Adopted children --- Adoptive parents. --- Adopting parents --- Parents --- Child placing --- Foster home care --- Parent and child --- Family relationships.

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'…all those involved in the adoption of children, old hands and new, will be stimulated and encouraged by this infectious read.'. - from the Foreword by David Howe, Dean of the School of Social Work and Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia. 'This work is a treasure for foster and adoptive parents and for the professionals who work to assist them.'. - from the Foreword by Daniel A. Hughes, clinical psychologist, consultant, trainer and author. This book is full of the techniques that we have used successfully over the years. Many we have adapted to suit their needs and many w

Adopted children. --- Parenting. --- Adoptive parents. --- Adoption --- Adopting parents --- Parents --- Parent behavior --- Parental behavior in humans --- Child rearing --- Parent and child --- Parenthood --- Adopted infants --- Children, Adopted --- Children --- Psychological aspects.

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Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements actually work out, particularly for older children adopted from state care. Such children have often experienced neglect, and sometimes abuse, and have frequently been adopted without parental agreement. Based on research with a large number of adoptive parents, children and birth relatives, <

Adopted children --- Birthparents. --- Adoptive parents. --- Adoption --- Guardian and ward --- Adopting parents --- Parents --- Biological parents --- Birth parents --- Natural parents --- Family relationships. --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation