Post Adoption Related Issues

Claudia L. Jewett

Book by David Brodzinsky
Recent studies have shown that being adopted can affect many aspects of adoptees' lives, from relationships with adoptive parents to bonds with their own children. Using their combined total of 55 years experience in clinical and research work with adoptees and their families, the authors use the voices of adoptees themselves to trace how adoption is experienced over a lifetime.

Debbie Riley, M.S., with John Meeks, M.D.

Book by Tonya Moore

Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz

Bonnie Buxton

Ross Greene

Antwone Fisher, Mim Rivas

Michael Trout and Lori Thomas

Deborah Grey

Bruce Rappaport

Foster Cline and Jim Fay

Book by Betsy Keefer
Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma, attachment difficulties, and/or issues stemming from the adoption process. Common complicating issues of adopted children are feelings of rejection, abandonment, or confusion about their origins. While many foster and adoptive parents and even many professionals are reluctant to communicate openly about birth histories, silence only adds to the child's confusion and pain.

Mary Hopkins-Best

Book by Sherrie Eldridge
With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents.
Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family,

Sherrie Eldridge