Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

Adult adoptees are no longer the exception to the many voices in adoption that can offer adoptive parents essential tools for success! This post highlights three of the many adult adoptees who blog about their experiences of growing up as transcultural adoptees in American society. They also comment on the adoption process as well. Their [...]

It is often difficult to get adopted children to talk about adoption. Yet, most report thinking about it “all the time.” Movies, websites—Adoption Clubhouse, culture camps, books, support groups, etc., provide the inroad needed to help open the discussion. Children need to talk about their pre- and post-adoption experiences—on and off—over time in order to [...]

Children who have experienced trauma enter the family with thoughts about themselves, adults and the world that are faulty. For example, children who resided in homes replete with domestic violence and physical abuse may think:

Aggression is a means to solve problems. In homes with domestic violence and physical abuse, it is the strongest member of [...]