| The Announcement
Your Personal, Private Fears
Is Adoption Really Just Long-Term
Temporary Care?
Bonding
But They’ll Be So Different from Us!
What about Race?
Can Older or Disabled Children “Fit”?
Open Adoption? We Don’t Want to Share!
Am I the “Real Grandparent”?
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Turning Loss into Gain
Why Am I Hesitating?
Being Out of Control of “Making It Better”
What to Say and What Not
So You’ve Already Blown It
How Adoption Works: The Facts vs. the Myths
“Just Relax: After Adopting, You’ll Get Pregnant”
Statistics
The Kids
How People Adopt
The Cost
Changing Practice—Open Adoption vs. Confidential Adoption
The Homestudy/Family Preparation
Getting Ready
The Wait
International
Special Needs Placements
Domestic Infant Placement
Privacy Boundaries
Pregnant by Adoption
Health Care for Expectant Adopters
The Sympathetic Pregnancy
Nesting
They’re back?
Practical Preparation—Expecting by Adoption
Home at Last!
Naming as Claiming
Arrival Issues
Circling the Wagons
The Baby Blues |
Parenting
in Adoption
Age at Arrival Issues
Infancy Toddlerhood
Pre-school and elementary school aged kids
Teens
The post-institutionalized child
Adoption Issues through a Lifetime
In Infancy and Toddlerhood
At School
Adolescence
Adulthood
Expanding the Family
Culture
Family Heritage—Stories, Traditions, and Heirlooms
Understanding and Including Your Grandchild’s Birthfamily
Special Issues
When You Were Adopted Yourself
When You Were Adoptive Parents,
Too
When Your Kids Are New Parents at
“Grandparent Age”
When This Is a Second Marriage
Foster Grandchildren
Adoption and the Rest of the
World
Top
Five Hot Buttons not to Push!
5. “What about the cost?
4. “Adoption connections
aren’t real connections
anyway!”
3. “Adopted people are ‘flawed.’
2. “Didn’t you know
that…”
1. “Now you’ll get
pregnant!”
Recognizing Adoptism’
Adoption in the Media
Adoption Language
Adoption Awareness Month
How You Can Learn More
Books, Newsletters, Magazines
Internet Sites
Support Groups
Conferences
About the Publisher
About the Author |
