Talking with Young Children about Adoption
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0300063172
ISBN 13
9780300063172
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
270
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Description
Current wisdom holds that adoptive parents should talk with their child about adoption as early as possible. But no guidelines exist to prepare parents for the various ways their children might respond when these conversations take place. In this wise and sympathetic book, a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist, both adoptive mothers, discuss how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted, how it might appear in their play, and what worries they and their parents may have. Accounts by twenty adoptive parents of conversations about adoption with their children, from ages two to ten, graphically convey what the process of sharing about adoption is like.
Number of Copies
1
