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Talking with Young Children About Adoption

By Mary Watkins and Dr. Susan Fisher

Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (February 22, 1995)
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pound
Condition: New

Price: $18.00

Synopsis

Current wisdom holds that adoptive parents should talk with their child about adoption as early as possible. But no guidelines exist to prepare parents for the various ways their children might respond when these conversations take place. In this wise and sympathetic book, a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist, both adoptive mothers, discuss how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted, how it might appear in their play, and what worries they and their parents may have. Accounts by twenty adoptive parents of conversations about adoption with their children, from ages two to ten, graphically convey what the process of sharing about adoption is like.