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Adoption Is a Family Affair by Patricia Irwin Johnston Adoption Is a Family Affair!
What Relatives and Friends Must Know by Patricia Irwin Johnston

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

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Adoption Is a Family Affair!'s Table of Contents

The Announcement
Your Personal, Private Fears
Is Adoption Really Just Long-Term
Temporary Care?
Bonding
But They'll Be So Different from Us!
What about Race?
Can Older or Disabled Children “Fit”?
Open Adoption? We Don't Want to Share!
Am I the “Real Grandparent”?
What If It Doesn't Work?
Turning Loss into Gain
Why Am I Hesitating?
Being Out of Control of “Making It Better”
What to Say and What Not
So You've Already Blown It
How Adoption Works: The Facts vs. the Myths
“Just Relax: After Adopting,
You'll Get Pregnant”
Statistics
The Kids
How People Adopt
The Cost
Changing Practice-
Open Adoption vs. Confidential Adoption
The Homestudy/Family Preparation

Getting Ready
The Wait
International
Special Needs Placements
Domestic Infant Placement
Privacy Boundaries
Pregnant by Adoption
Health Care for Expectant Adopters
The Sympathetic Pregnancy
Nesting
They're back?
Practical Preparation-Expecting by Adoption
Home at Last!
Naming as Claiming
Arrival Issues
Circling the Wagons
The Baby Blues
Parenting in Adoption
Age at Arrival Issues
Infancy Toddlerhood
Pre-school and elementary school aged kids
Teens
The post-institutionalized child

Adoption Issues through a Lifetime
In Infancy and Toddlerhood
At School
Adolescence
Adulthood
Expanding the Family Culture
Family Heritage-Stories, Traditions, and Heirlooms
Understanding and Including Your Grandchild's Birthfamily

Special Issues
When You Were Adopted Yourself
When You Were Adoptive Parents, Too
When Your Kids Are New Parents at “Grandparent Age”
When This Is a Second Marriage
Foster Grandchildren

Adoption and the Rest of the World
Top Five Hot Buttons not to Push!
5. “What about the cost?
4. “Adoption connections aren't real connections
anyway!”
3. “Adopted people are ‘flawed.'
2. “Didn't you know that..."
1. “Now you'll get pregnant!"
Recognizing Adoptism'
Adoption in the Media
Adoption Language
Adoption Awareness Month

How You Can Learn More
Books, Newsletters, Magazines
Internet Sites
Support Groups
Conferences
About the Publisher
About the Author

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