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A child is coming-whether you approve or not! It’s time to get with the program!

If someone you care about-a family member, coworker, or close friend-has recently announced that their family will be growing through adoption, you may have questions. After all, beyond what you’ve read in the paper or seen on television (most of which is so atypical that it paints a frightening picture) unless you’ve personally experienced adoption, you may know very little about how adoption works and what it means.

Are you thinking this might not be a good idea? Are you wondering about open adoption in the face of stories you’ve heard? Are you questioning the legality and permanence of adoption after reading about those “Internet Twins,” Baby Jessica, and Baby Richard? What does it mean to “search?” Just what are the privacy boundaries that families built by adoption should expect from those around them? What is it okay to ask about?

Adoption Is a Family Affair! will answer all of these questions and more, offering you information about who can adopt, why they consider adopting, how they adopt, how kids understand adoption as they grow up, and more. As it’s subtitle makes clear, this short book is crammed full of What Relatives and Friends Must Know in order to welcome with enthusiasm a new member of the family.

Adoption Is a Family Affair! is now available in Kindle ebook reader format on Amazon.com and in nearly all other ebook formats on Smashwords.com. Buy that through our ebook page on the  button bar above. 

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New and Notable on another front…! Adoption Is A Family Affair’s author, Pat Johnston, served as the adoption coordinator and consultant on Healthvue’s new DVD sets “Infertility Explained: The Complete, Authoritative Guide to Everything You Need to Know on Your Journey to Parenthood”  and “Adoption Explained: The Complete, Authoritative Guide to Everything You Need to Know on Your Journey to Adoptive Parenthood” each as two-disc DVD productions providing an authoritative resource for over six-million clinically infertile couples of child-bearing age in the United States, helping them to make informed choices and achieve greater confidence in their decisions made in consultation with healthcare practitioners. to learn more about this audo-visual resource Click here

Pat Johnston will present the keynote address and several workshops at APC’s 28th annual conference primarily for residents of NY, NJ and CT, this year themed “Adoption: Where Joy Begins.”  This 75 session how-to-adopt and parenting issues in adoption conference is among the largest in the country and is planned and implemented entirely by volunteers with the New York City, New Jersey, Long Island and Hudson Region chapters of the 50+-year-old Adoptive Parents Committee. For full information, including how to register, visit www.adoptiveparents.org or call (212)304-8479.

12:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Chicago Area Families for Adoption (CAFFA) will offer a half day afternoon workshop with Pat which will be a discussion of how attachment is different for those joined by adoption and the essential task for each member of the immediate and extended family–building a sense of entitlement to one another. This will include information about using a parenting style that encourages open communication, and creating a family culture that acknowledges differences and celebrates cultures of origin, but at the same time encourages children to “claim” the history and culture of their adoptive family. The workshop encompasses families built through foster care, domestic and international adoption. Registration iformation available through CAFFA at membership@CAFFA.org or by calling (630)585-4680

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