Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child

By Trish Maskew
Published By Snowcap Press
$9.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: June 18, 2011
Words: 90295 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

An adoptive mother draws on her own experiences, extensive research, and interviews with adoptive families, grown adoptees, and professionals to create a memorable collection of practical tips and real-life stories for anyone who's adopting, or has adopted, an older child.

Extended description

An adoptive mother draws on her own experiences, extensive research, and interviews with adoptive families, grown adoptees, and professionals to create a memorable collection of practical tips and real-life stories for anyone who's adopting, or has adopted, an older child. Whether they are adopting a preschooler or a teenager, a kid from around the corner or from five thousand miles away, parents will consult this book again and again for its commonsense, compassionate approach to the joys and challenges of adding an older child to the family.

Since its first publication, Our Own has become the must-have handbook on older child adoption.

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adoption, adoptive parents, special needs, adopting, adopted children, parenting children with special needs, older child adoption, older child

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