Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

When posted, “My Spouse or Partner Wants to Adopt” noted that there are predominant pre-adoptive expectations:

“I want to help a child in need.”
“I am unable to have children.”
“I heard and ad on the radio.” – “Love will be enough.”
“I know what they have been through.”
“I thought a child would strengthen my marriage.”
“A relative’s child needs [...]

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 [...]

Today’s post is taken from Inside Transracial Adoption. The authors, Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall are our “guest Perspectives Press authors” and thus, our “guest bloggers.” Gail and Beth wrote Inside Transracial Adoption in 2000, and in 2001 it won a Skipping Stones Magazine Honor Award for its exceptional contribution to multicultural awareness in children’s [...]