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Pitfalls of Adoption
November 08th, 201002:20 PM ETThis is National Adoption Awareness Month, and the 20th will be the 11th annual National Adoption Day. This year the adoption month theme is “You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent.” Kids were made to be in a family, with real parents. No family is perfect, and I don’t think I have ever met a perfect parent, hav... -
Do Adopted Kids Have More Problems?
April 13th, 201002:54 PM ETYou may have heard the news story this week - an adoptive family in Tennessee put their 7-year-old Russian-born boy on an unaccompanied one-way flight back to Russia, explaining that he had terrorized their family since coming to live with them. Now, the world is in an uproar over their seemingly heartless and careless act. This family's decisio... -
The Answers Adopted Kids Seek in the Teen Years
November 13th, 200905:05 PM ETWhen an adopted child enters the adolescent years and their thinking transfers from concrete to abstract, they might begin asking that unanswerable question, "Why did my mother give me up?" At a time that most kids are trying to "find themselves" and form a concept and understanding of who they are and who they are not, the adoption card in their d...
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