Adoption and After |  | Author: Louise Raymond
Publisher: Harpercollins
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 7827709
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Pages: 257
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 006013531X
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.734
EAN: 9780060135317
ASIN: 006013531X
Publication Date: May 1987
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FROM INSIDE FLAP: Thinking of Adoption? This is a warm, sensitive, understanding, and informative book on the full process of adoption. Adoption has undergone vast changes in the last ten years. Eligibility requirements, application procedures, the selection process, even the atmosphere of most adoption agencies has changed dramatically. In 1955 it was difficult for even a childless, infertile couple to adopt a child. Today it is not only easier for these couples to adopt, but it is now possible for fertile couples with other children, and even single people, to adopt. Yet the day-to-day adjustments, the problems, the real-life situations that adoptive families have to deal with are as they have always been. Mrs. Dywasuk has retained Miss Raymond's fresh reassuring charm. The authors have drawn on their own experience and on interviews with adoptive parents and trained workers in adoption agencies. Starting with self-screening by prospective parents, ADOPTION AND AFTER shows how to build a strong, happy, confident family on the relaxed acceptance of the adoptive relationship. Raising adopted children--from babyhood to adolescence--is covered in depth.
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I wish I had never followed her advice. September 27, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I adopted a daugher in 1972. Before I did, I read this book. Louise Raymond suggested that you begin right away telling the child she is adopted. Start by playing a game asking, "Are you my adopted daughter?" I did this when she was in the crib. My daughter at 14, used this against me saying every day I reminded her she was adopted. She told DCFS and they put her in foster care. I am glad it is no longer in print.
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