Understanding Your Child

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Adopted children, from infants to older children, may have a variety of needs and concerns. Parents must be aware of potential issues, including grief and loss, anger, and identity, in order to help their children develop and grow.

The Inner World of the Adopted Child

Child psychologist Dr. Christopher Alexander offers insight into the needs and concerns of adopted children, including family interaction, child development, and anger.... [more]

How to Anticipate Times of Identity Sensitivity

There are times in the life of a young adoptee or foster child when questions about identity may trigger unusual behaviors. Parents can help by being aware of these times, and making themselves emotionally available to their children.... [more]

Is It Toddlerhood or Adoption?

Child development expert Rita Taddonio addresses questions from adoptive parents about behaviors in the toddler years and whether or not they're adoption-related.... [more]

Multiple Transitions

Special thanks to Michael Trout of The Infant-Parent Institute for allowing us to reprint the script of his video. What would even the youngest children tell us if they could? Perhaps these are their words.... [more]

Transition from Orphanage to Home

You have been preparing for this moment for months - perhaps years, but for your child, the move from an institutional setting to family life is confusing, and will be very different from life in an orphanage.... [more]

Grief & Loss

Grief and loss are part of the life of young adoptees and children and youth in foster care. Professionals and parents offer insight, suggestions, and support to adoptive and foster parents seeking ways to identify these issues, and talk to their children

Lifelong Issues
Seven issues affecting all members of the adoption experience.

Understanding Adoption: A developmental approach
An article from the Canadian Paediatric Society walks through development from infancy and early childhood to school-aged and adolescence, also addressing the differences between children adopted as infants and those adopted at older ages.

"What Is The Primal Wound?"
Author Marcy Axness examines the trauma of separation.

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