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Adoptive Families of America Adoption Magazine

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COVER STORY31
A Link to the Past
Adoption scrapbooks create a sense of history and belonging.
By Myra Alperson

FEATURES26
My Child, Myself
What do we teach our children, and what are they born knowing? By Marcelle Clements

29
A New International Treaty On Adoption
What will the Hague Convention mean to American adopters?
By Susan Freivalds

35
The Little Girl Who Loved to Swing
For children with sensory integration disorder, everyday life brings unpleasant sensations.
By Priscilla Scherer

IN THIS ISSUE

4
Publisher's Letter

5
Letters to the Editor

11
Taking a Position:
Real Choices By Curt Rice

14
Been There:
?Mom, Were You Alive During Woodstock??
Adult adoptees on growing up with older parents

15
Adopted Child:
Freeing Your Child to Feel
By Lois Melina

17
The Waiting Game:
The Final Stage
A mother's joy on finalization day By Eliza Newlin Carney

19
The Single Parent:
Until The Real Thing Comes Along
By Eliza Thomas

21
Living with Diversity:
Tears of Trust
A child's confronts her disability
By Marybeth Lambe

23
Viewpoints: Ask Adoptive Families
Identifying a birthmother.

38
Family Album

40
Legal Q & A
A New Citizenship Law
By Mark McDermott

46
Calendar

47
Parenting the Child Who Waited:
When Temper Tantrums Become a Way of Life
By Art Becker-Weidman

49
New Books Reviewed

78
At Home:
Do Right, Fear Not
By Elizabeth Mair

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