Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
Kids & Family
Talking with your adopted or foster child about the hard parts of their story can feel like a daunting task. Should you tell your child that her birth father is in jail or that her birth mother is addicted to drugs, or that she was conceived by rape? If so, how in the world do you share this news. We talk with Lesli Johnson, an EMDR therapist who specializes in adoption and foster care and an adult adoptee; and Susan Myers, a licensed Master Social Worker with Adoptions from the Heart Adoption Agency with offices throughout the northeast.
In this episode, we cover:
Additional Resources:
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past, by Betsy Keefer and Jayne E. Schooler
Talking with Children about Difficult History, by Holly van Gulden
Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child (2nd Edition September 21, 2011), by Beth O'Malley M.Ed
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Adopting as a Single Parent
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Fertility Preservation and Egg Freezing
How a Parent's History with Attachment and Trauma Impacts Adoption and Fostering
Adoption Tax Credit 2020
Evaluating Risk Factors in Foster Care
Maintaining Your Marriage & Relationships When Adopting or Fostering
Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family
What to Eat to Increase Your Odds of Success with IVF
Healing After Abuse and Neglect
Adopting a Child from Another State
Impact of COVID-19 on Surrogacy
Legal Process of Domestic Adoption: What You Need to Know Before You Adopt
Coping with the Stress of Infertility
Talking with Your Adopted or Foster Child about the Hard Parts of Their Story
The Holidays with Adopted or Foster Kids Who’ve Been Exposed to Trauma
Collaborative Parenting
Disrupting Birth Order in Adoption and Foster Care
Parenting Tweens and Teens
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