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 [...]

Time out seems to be one of the most popular forms of discipline today. However, as a tool to change the behavior of an adopted child with a history of trauma, we must re-think the use of time out. This is because time out disconnects the child from the family. Most adopted children already know [...]

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 [...]