Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

Gordon was 15-years-old when he was arrested for vandalizing several cars parked at a local shopping mall. Gordon had been adopted, internationally, when he was 2 and 1/2 -years-old. He had been difficult from the start. This arrest was one more situation on a very lengthy list of negative behaviors! While at the police station [...]

Welcome to Part 4—our final post on “why” traumatized children steal and “what you can do” to help move your adopted child to honesty. Today, we continue with our menu of solutions. The solutions correspond to those factors identified in Parts 1 and 2 as the more common reasons children continue their thievery over very [...]

He may wear the same popular brand names as your children. She may be a cheerleader like your daughter. He may like video games and hanging out at the mall or playing any type of ball. She may be into the latest hairstyles and texting her friends. You really can’t always tell an American “Waiting [...]