Adopt A Child

Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Children Over Age Four by Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero, MA; Gloria Russo Wassell, MS, LMHC; and Victor Groza, PhD. – This is a wonderful resource full of practical and hopeful tips for parents who have adopted a child over age four from foster care or through international adoption. This thorough guide lists the issues an older adopted child faces and provides a comprehensive overview of problems and how adopting parents can successfully deal with them, including critical information about developmental issues; problems related [...]

When Should You Adopt A Child? Adopting a child is a big decision that not only changes your lives but the life of the child you choose to adopt. The potential parents should make sure that this is something they truly want and can handle. If you are a mature adult there is no “wrong” age to adopt a child. However, some people prefer to wait until they are older before deciding to adopt. Here are some reasons that waiting until you are older and potentially more mature is a [...]

Adopt a Child | 3 Reasons to Adopt A Child Choosing to Adopt a child can be a very rewarding experience and can truly change the life of a child for the better. Adopting a child helps give a child a second chance at having a loving family and can give the parents the fulfillment they have been looking for in their lives. Here are some reasons that people decide to adopt a child.   Infertility Some couples try to have children naturally but find out that that there is [...]

Adopt A Child | How to Know When Your Child Needs Therapy   Adopt A Child | Your journey to become a foster parent (resource parent) is a noble and worthy cause in helping hurting children. When that child is first placed in your home it is easy for parents to get overwhelmed with the various and sometimes bizarre behaviors that foster children can express. It can be hard for foster parents to see through the behaviors to the real issues that lie beneath the surface. Here are 3 ways [...]