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Thicker than blood : adoptive parenting in the modern world / Marion Crook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Vancouver, BC Arsenal Pulp Press 2016.Description: 211 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781551526317
  • 155152631X
  • 9781551526324
  • 1551526328
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Thicker than blood.DDC classification:
  • 649.145 23
LOC classification:
  • HV875 .C763 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Contents:
Foreword / by Adam Pertman -- Secrecy in adoption -- Why parents adopt -- Becoming a family -- Successful parenting -- What children need and how parents can help -- Helping adoptees through ages and stages -- The changing world of adoption -- Search and reunion -- The future of adoption.
Summary: Adoptive parents can be bewildered or apprehensive and find themselves struggling in ways they hadn't anticipated. Marion Crook gently takes adoptive parents through the process of adoption from childhood to adulthood, helping to demystify the experience with compassion and reassurance. Meticulously researched but refreshingly free of academic jargon, this book will enlighten and empower adoptive parents and those who work with adopted children alike.
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Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Located at Event Centre Non Fiction 649.145 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00754259

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208) and index.

Foreword / by Adam Pertman -- Secrecy in adoption -- Why parents adopt -- Becoming a family -- Successful parenting -- What children need and how parents can help -- Helping adoptees through ages and stages -- The changing world of adoption -- Search and reunion -- The future of adoption.

Adoptive parents can be bewildered or apprehensive and find themselves struggling in ways they hadn't anticipated. Marion Crook gently takes adoptive parents through the process of adoption from childhood to adulthood, helping to demystify the experience with compassion and reassurance. Meticulously researched but refreshingly free of academic jargon, this book will enlighten and empower adoptive parents and those who work with adopted children alike.

Issued also in electronic format.

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