Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

Welcome to Part Two of our post regarding helping children—who remain in the home—adjust when an adopted sibling/prospective brother or sister leaves the family via dissolution, disruption or displacement. Part One described these terms and Part One contained our first suggestions to help these brothers and sisters cope with the loss of their sibling.

This post will offer some [...]

Today’s topic is a painful issue. It is an unfortunate fact of adoption that some adoptees/prospective adoptees will leave their family. However, we must address this topic in order to transition all the children in these situations. This two-part blog focuses on the children who remain in the family. Losing a sibling is a time [...]

I don’t typically write blogs about current adoption news stores. However, the story that has come from Oklahoma is certainly troublesome. I can’t stop thinking about the Good Morning America segment that launched the story of the Wescott’s and their 11-year-old adopted son to the national spotlight.

I think what bothers me most is that coverage [...]