Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

This is another in a series of posts on related challenging topics. You may want to print this post or others in the series – Introduction, Part One, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six. Study them, returning to them over time. Review the resources that are embedded within the articles. Keep them handy! [...]

Welcome to part two of our post about peeing and pooping in adoptive families. The purpose of this blog is to explore the various reasons for this stinky business and to offer ideas to manage this behavior, so the home environment can be more sensorily palatable.
In Part One we covered, medical and physical causes, sex: [...]

The adoptee with a history of trauma can bring an array of pee and poop (formally called encopresis and enuresis, nocturnal (night) and diurnal (daytime)) issues along with him when he joins the adoptive family! In fact, the pee and poop issues abound in adoptive families! The stories about how much the adoptee pees, where [...]