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Preparing Emotionally for Adoption
The preparation and waiting period before adoption can be an emotional time for prospective adoptive parents. In this section are resources about adoption that can help parents and families ease into the experience of welcoming a new person into a family, including family stories.
| Adoption: Where Do I Start? | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 1,556KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 8 pages |
| This factsheet is an introduction to the many paths to building your family through adoption. It will give you an understanding of the basics in any adoption process and guide you to resources at each step. | |
Adoption Reversals
Pact, An Adoption Alliance
Explores ways to acknowledge grief over the losses of "potential" adoptions.
Become Educated on Adoption Resources and Support
The Center for Adoptive Families
Provides education and support to adoptive families.
Coping With Anxiety – Surviving the Adoption Wait
Adopt Vietnam
Addresses some of the issues surrounding the adoption wait in intercountry adoption.
Coping With a Failed Adoption
Adoption.com
Provides tips for coping after a failed adoptive placement.
Find an Adoption Event Near You
Adoptive Families Magazine
Lists preadoption events by State.
Foster Care and Adoption Self-Assessment Guide: A Useful Tool to Help You Make an Informed Decision About Fostering or Adopting a Child (PDF - 412 KB)
Iowa KidsNet (2008)
Designed to provide information and self-assessment guides to persons considering foster parenting and/or special needs adoption.
| Impact of Adoption on Adoptive Parents | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway. |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 401KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 14 pages |
| This factsheet explores some of the emotional ups and downs that adoptive parents may experience as they approach the decision to adopt, during the adoptive process, and after the adoption. It explores some stresses that adoptive parents may experience, including depression, issues related to identity and attachment, and issues related to the child's adjustment, such as contact with the birth family. Useful resources and suggestions for finding help are included. | |
Labor of the Heart: A Parent's Guide to the Decisions and Emotions in Adoption
Whitten (2008)
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Discusses the transition to adoptive parenthood and the challenges of making decisions during the adoption process. This book is targeted toward first-time adoptive parents.
Online Adoption Publishers-Bookstores
Adopting.org
Lists adoption publishers and booksellers.
Preparing Your Family for Adoption
New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children
Offers helpful tips for prospective adoptive parents.
Self-Assessment Tool
Children Awaiting Parents
Presents an assessment tool to help families determine if adoption is right for them.
Thinking of Adopting?
FAIR (Families Adopting in Response)
Suggests questions to consider in making an adoption choice.
Family stories
Did Your Family Include a Reluctant Spouse?
Adoptive Families Magazine
Relates adoption experiences from a number of different families.
Family Stories About Adoption
AdoptUsKids
Provides the real-life stories of adoptive and foster families.
From Heartbreak to Hope
Adoptive Families Magazine
Relates one family's story of survival and hope.
How We Decided
Adoptive Families Magazine
Provides families' stories of their personal paths to adoption.
While You Wait
Adoptive Families Magazine
Offers a selection of articles addressing the waiting experiences of prospective adoptive parents.