Articles and fact sheets

from Flight of the Stork by Anne Bernstein

from Flight of the Stork by Anne Bernstein

A compiled list of quick, easy, cheap, last-minute ideas for observing AAM this November as well as a list of ideas for observations that will take a half year or more of pre-planning for next year!

by Pat Johnston, adapted from Launching a Baby’s Adoption and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

by Pat Johnston, explores the long-term psychological impact of infertility and discusses why resolving this issue is so important to future parenting relationships. Adapted from Taking Charge of Infertility, this article first appeared in the magazine Pact Press from Pact: An Adoption Alliance.

Chapter 1 from Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families by Patricia Irwin Johnston

The following article has been excerpted from Chapter 6, Brothers and Sisters in Adoption: Helping Children Navigate Relationships when New Kids Join the Family. It is so exciting to finally find a child to join your family by adoption! You and the children you already parent-the typically-developing children-can hardly wait to meet the new brother [...]

by Susan Cooper and Ellen Glazer from their book Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional and Ethical Considerations.

by Pat Johnston This article first appeared in the enewsletter and on the website of INCIID.org, for which Pat moderates three adoption boards.Similar material now appears in her newest bookAdopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families (2007)

by Pat Johnston (first appeared in Adoption Today’s January 2001 issue)

by Susan Cooper and Ellen Glazer from Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional and Ethical Considerations

Excerpted from Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman Sterling’s Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

by Ellen Glazer is a provocative essay advocating against “embryo adoption” and for donation of “extra” embryos to stem cell research. It first appeared in the American Infertility Association’s newsletter.

(Building a sense of entitlement…are you the “real parent”?) by Pat Johnston, first appeared in Roots & Wings magazine after being adapted from Adopting after Infertility. It is now included in Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

by Pat Johnston (with help from her friends on the INCIID adoption boards), from Adoption Is a Family Affair! What Friends and Relatives Must Know

Di Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D. Traduzione di Marcia E. Salusti Questo articolo è stato adattato dal materiale sviluppato dalla Dott.ssa Fahlberg sull’assistenza ai bambini con assenza di attaccamento e bambini “confusi” da multipli collocamenti, presentato anche nei suoi libri. I lettori possono trovare questo articolo ed altri in Internet all’indirizzo  http://www.perspectivespress.com/ourfactsheets.html INTRODUZIONE Una delle principali [...]

Activities for you or your group to try by Pat Johnston with the American Fertility Association.

Popular songs providing comfort and empathy through the infertility journey.

by Vera Fahlberg, MD, was adapted from A Child’s Journey through Placement

by Pat Johnston and Wendy Williams from a book in process

by Pat Johnston

is a new and expanded treatment of material already published in Pat Johnston’s books Launching a Baby’s Adoption and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families, as well as in articles for Adoptive Families magazine, Pact Press, and Serono Symposia USA’s newsletter for professionals, Insights into Infertility. This is controversial stuff, but something all prospective adopters and couples reluctant to put treatment behind before adopting should read.

Excerpted from Chapter 9: “The Role of The Child Welfare/Social Worker” in Deborah Gray’s 2007 book Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

from Adopting After Infertility and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families by Pat Johnston

from Taking Charge of Infertility by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston, adapted from Launching a Baby’s Adoption and now <Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D. Traduzione di Marcia E. Salusti Questo articolo, sviluppato per i workshop formativi condotti dalla Dott.ssa Fahlberg, rivolti aspecialisti nel campo dell’assistenza ai minori, si collega ai materiali presentati nel suo libro intitolato A Child’s Journey through Placement. I lettori possono trovare quest’articolo ed altri in Internet all’indirizzo  http://www.perspectivespress.com/articlelist Gli assistenti sociali [...]

by Pat Johnston and Wendy Williams

Mary Hopkins-Best, Ed.D. Chapter 1-2: Had you thought about the similarities and differences between adoption of an infant, toddler, and older child? What surprised you about the section “What’s So Special About Toddler Adoption?” How deliberate is your choice to adopt a toddler? How might that affect your adjustment to your child and your child’s [...]

by Mary Hopkins-Best from Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft first appeared in the PNPIC Post in Autumn, 1997.

Excerpted from Deborah Gray’s Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents.

A “user’s guide” to Joan McNamara’s children’s book Borya and the Burps!

by Vera I Fahlberg, M.D. is a part of the training material included in her books A Child’s Journey through Placement and Residential Treatment.

by Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D., is an adaptation from her books A Child’s Journey through Placement and Residential Treatment and trainings.