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Sexual Promiscuity and Adopted Teens

January 10th, 201102:27 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

Already feeling confusion about their identity and validity, adopted teens are doubly impacted by growing feelings of abandonment by their birth parents. It can lead them to inappropriately attach themselves to another person sexually. There are several catalysts for sexual promiscuity among adopted kids, above and beyond the normal temptations o...
Pitfalls of Adoption

November 08th, 201002:20 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

This 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 ET

By Mark Gregston

You 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 ET

By Mark Gregston

When 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...
Adoption Issues in the Teen Years

July 30th, 200902:17 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

Most adopted children that I've worked with have one question on their minds in the teen years that is frankly unanswerable. That question creates a void, especially during adolescence. And that question is, "Why was I abandoned by my birth-mother?" Here's an interesting statistic...over 40% of our teen residents at Heartlight, our ...