The Adoption Decision

Description

Softcover – Used

Non Fiction

In North America, more and more families are adding members through adoption. And there are more ways to adopt–and kinds of adoption–than ever.This quick-start resource will help prospective parents consider key emotional and spiritual issues up front…”before” they plunge into the near-overwhelming mass of details and start to run into roadblocks, even dead ends.Laura Christianson–an adoption educator and mentor, and an adoptive mom herself–brings her experience and knowledge to address unspoken but crucial questions about…loving an adopted childextended family’s reactionexpensesopenness in adoptionthe role of birth parentsphysical disabilitiesemotional/behavioral challengesracial and cultural prejudicesRecounting real-life miracles and mishaps of adoptive families, the author will help prospective parents–and their friends and family members–think through adoption’s challenges and joys, and confidently move forward from a firm emotional and spiritual footing.