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Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families With Special-Needs Kids : A Guide for Parents and Professionals, by Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky

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Brief Synopsis:

A guide to the difficult issues many adopted children bring into their new homes and how parents can address them.

Long Synopsis:

"Fewer and fewer families adopting today are able to bring home a healthy newborn infant. The majority of adoptions now involve emotionally wounded, older children who have suffered the effects of abuse or neglect in their birth families and carry complex baggage with them into their adoptive families. Adopting the Hurt Child addresses the frustrations, heartache, and hope surrounding the adoptions of these special-needs kids. Children who have endured emotional and physical atrocities, failed reunifications, and myriad losses associated with multiple moves in the foster care system not only present unique challenges to their adoptive families but also impact greater society in significant ways. Integrating social, psychological, and sociopolitical issues, Adopting the Hurt Child explains how trauma and interruptions affect these children's normal development and often severely undermine their capacity to function in a loving family and in society. Written in a non-technical style accessible to a diverse audience, Adopting the Hurt Child brings to light grim truths, but also real hope that children who have been hurt-and often hurt others-can be healed and brought back into life by the adoptive and foster parents, therapists, teachers, social workers, and others whose lives intersect with theirs." -- from the book jacket

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

250 Pages

ISBN-10:

1576830942

ISBN-13:

9781576830949

Publisher:

N/A

Date of Addition:

01/12/07

Copyright Date:

1995

Copyrighted By:

Gregory C. Keck,Regina M. Kupecky

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Nonfiction, Parenting and Family

Submitted By:

Lynn Zelvin

Proofread By:

avid reader

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