Product Description

From infancy through the teen years, this comprehensive jewel guides adoptive parents as they learn about adoption issues and how to comfortably discuss them. The emphasis is on adoption as an ongoing process benefiting from open lines of communication. Should be on everyone's bookshelf!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5866678 in Books
• Published on: 1991
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 28 pages

From the Publisher
Patricia Martinez Dorner is a well respected voice in the adoption field. She has worked hard to increase understanding about adoption issues, providing training all over the country.

From the Author
As an adoptive parent and an adoption professional, I know how important it is to feel comfortable talking about adoption within the family. This book offers tools to accomplish this.

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From Chapter 3 : As adopted children grow up, the issues they deal with increase in complexity. They are able to understand more and they are striving to know more. I would like to emphasize here that, while adoption issues are being raised in this book, children are not typically fixated on adoption every day. They will play, laugh, fight, participate in extracurricular activities and more. The intent here is to help those, who care deeply about the development of children, to be keyed in and responsive as the need arises.